On 02/01/2011 22:25, Alex Vachon wrote:
Hi friends, quiet here on the farsides front today!
Indeed ! The new year's eve truce maybe :)
You are a visitor to the non-profit organisation website (working name: unitedecosystems.com <http://unitedecosystems.com>) . After just a few seconds, perhaps when you click on a link such as “About the Founder”, a new page loads, but the loading is interrupted by a page such as “Oops! Google Chrome could not find abouthefounder.com <http://abouthefounder.com>” for about a second, and you arrive on a blank page, except for a strange logo. Rapidly, a chat box appears and someone starts writing to you:
I like the idea of the loading being interrupted and the Ooops message. I think it should be triggered automatically though and not wait for a click else how do you see that we can make sure the player actually clicks ? Maybe a frame within the page that loads a picture or something and that gives the ooops message after a few seconds. Then after the oops message I think we could have the animation with the earth and the localization look that was mentioned on the ml some time ago, and then boom we arrive on the desktop + chat. You think it would work ?
In the chat box: Frosty, I’m glad you were able to make it back here! We’re under attack . Hackers...unknown. BUT they’re in Asia. We know that their malicious websites and email addresses contain the word “chocolate”. We know that their fake homepage talks about a famous place. Could be a famous tourist site. Not sure. We need to what this website is very quickly. Our servers can go offline anytime soon. Any idea? Find what the website is about, what is that tourist site? Just write the location here. I’ll run your key words through my program. I’ll tell you if they match. Do it now!
Ok let's play :) Google gives me Chocolate Hills in Philippines. Correct ? But they are different web sites that talk about it, so I don't know which one it would be.
While we discuss this part, can you already draft the end of the mission ? So we quickly have a first draft we can integrate and test.
Regarding your mission, given that we did not exactly follow the original three steps process (my fault, because we're on the clock), and that some part of the work has already been done, I could release half of the payment as of now. Xav is that ok for you ?
And Alex one last thing. If you have a little spare time this week, could you have a look at the existing missions on hackit.cx and playtest them ? I would be very interested to have some feedback and maybe also if you could spot the obvious mistakes in english writing :) Thanks in advance and let me know if you experience issues in running the missions (there are still bugs) we can look at them together.
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