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Inside the Honeypot, Inside the Game

Posted by Zonk on from the metagaming dept.

VonGuard writes "The Game is the title of an article I have up on the EastBayExpress site, and it's an inside look at 4orty2wo, the company behind ilovebees.com and the original ARG 'Who Killed Evan Chan?'. I also have an interview with the 4orty2wo folks in this month's Game Developer Magazine entitled 'Inside the Honeypot'. Read both carefully and you may find clues to a new ARG!" From the article: "One day last fall, Lenore Henry stood by a pay phone on San Francisco's Market Street. She cupped the thick black shell of the receiver to one ear and plugged the other with an errant finger to block out street noise. Behind her, a man clicked on a recording device and poked a microphone at the telephone mouthpiece. A familiar female voice was on the line. It wasn't a recorded voice as before. This one was live. It was 'the Melissa,' and Lenore needed to make it cry."

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  1. Was I the only one.... by Zeussy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Was I the only one that thought winnie the pooh when i read Inside the Honey pot.

    I better go back to my corner.

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    1. Re:Was I the only one.... by ReverendLoki · · Score: 4, Funny
      Was I the only one that thought winnie the pooh when i read Inside the Honey pot.

      Now there's the subtitle to an "E! True Hollywood Story" I never want to see.

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    2. Re:Was I the only one.... by teksno · · Score: 2, Funny

      i thought it was either about pooh bear going to rehab, or something about network security...

  2. a few things by CoffeeJedi · · Score: 2, Informative

    yeah, some of us beekeepers checked out the mini-arg linked from the article, i think the whole thing was solved in a matter of hours actually

    but, this is coming from a writer who couldn't get the lead character's name right (its just Melissa, no "the") and couldn't even get the name of the original A.I. game correct (everyone just calls it "the beast" now, even 4orty2wo)

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  3. Re:We don't care.... by Chyeld · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I did. I even still have the DVD I burnt of the complete 'story'.

    Perhaps the world doesn't revolve around you after all?

  4. Ooh Im so impressed by Jukashi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Viral marketing fucking sucks. The only amazing feat here is the ability of these people to be even bigger liars than other marketing firms. How long until our memories are full of these corporate 'happenings'? Thanks for making the world a worse place, dickwads.

  5. Re:We don't care.... by assassinator42 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's an amazing, 2+ hour audio drama. I like it more than I liked the plot for Halo 2. Did the people who critisize it actually listen to the completed story? Congrats to 4orty2wo and all of the excellent people who worked on this story.

  6. What's this all about? by Kosi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I RTFA, but was not able to fathom what it is talking about. And what is an ARG?