On 24/12/2010 17:43, Alex Vachon wrote:
Do you remember North by Northwest?
Nice reference, yes this kind of situation works really well I agree
Also, it would be very exciting to see Williams, or someone who calls himself Williams appear on video for the 1st time .
I'd like that ! Mental note for when we start adding videos :)
As for the accidental entrance into the organization secret zone, we need to think this process through a little bit. If I am a visitor, and all of a sudden, I'm granted passage, then what I would do eventually is try a second time just to see what happens. If the passage is granted every time with the same script, perhaps that would take away the magic. Perhaps, whatever device is used, it should not grant automatically entry every time someone fills out the poll. Perhaps, a technical glitch caused by hackers on the home page allows the visitor access to the secret zone, a worm, an cyber attack?
yes, I think it should be exceptional, a 'catastrophe' in the scientific sense :) So if I sum up, the player is there on the web site and is asked to answer an innocent poll and suddenly something happens such as a cyber attack which will create a glitch and grant him an unauthorized access, and where maybe his first tack can be to help defend against the attack ? I think it could work - I'm not 100% sure yet but there is something I like, for sure.
The one issue that I currently have in mind is the fact that one of the next step for the game is going to be the multiplayer features. The players are going to play together in this game, so the game entrance is at the same time exceptional (cyber attack) and the same for every player, which is not very realistic. Actually I have the same problem with the Kaplan/Williams story, it's good but seems a bit strange to apply to all players. Imagine millions (let's be optimistic !) of Williams all double agents, all playing together :-) It's a recurrent problem that multi player games face, this one. I'm not sure how to tackle this yet.
Alex I'll try to grab you on the chat or skype at the beginning of next week so we can sum up what has been said and discuss the next steps.
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