Perplex City Second Season Put On Indefinite Hold 22
The wildly successful Alternate Reality Game Perplex city, which ended in February of this year with the discovery of 'the Cube' will not be seeing a second season immediately. GameSetWatch has a bevy of links about the announcement, which was quite a surprise to players. Mind Candy, the company behind the game, made the announcement after the departure of their Director of Play, the COO, and several other top company personalties. "It is Mind Candy's hope that they will bring back the ARG in the future. However, the facts for now are that all of the story team has left Mind Candy, and Perplex City Season 2 is not coming out any time soon. The cards are going to continue being sold and supported; they're all designed and we already have some copies of wave 2 in the office."
Mindgames (Score:3, Interesting)
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New Cards (Score:2, Informative)
Some of the cards have a continuing story on them though - that you need to collect all the cards in that set to read (A choose your own adventure type), as well as some 'horoscope' style, and a few other I haven't made heads or tales of yet. (I only bought them yesterday)
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'wildly successful' (Score:2)
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Interesting. Looks like it combines geocaching (?), trading cards, and the online element. The originator must certainly be a Scot or an Irishman...
Gives me the inspiration to start my own game: "Mugger's Paradise"...
It takes place in distressed American Northeast urban are
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Seriously, get someone else to write in the games section from Slashdot. In case you don't know, video game news websites on the Internet are a dime a dozen, and that's where you get all your stories from anyway. You can't even filter in the good ones?
Somtimes I should drink coffee before reading this (Score:2)
Punctuation (Score:5, Insightful)
"The wildly successful Alternate Reality Game Perplex city" describes a place called "Alternate Reality Game Perplex".
"The wildly successful alternate-reality game Perplex City" describes a game called "Perplex City".
I'm normally not so pedantic, but when I have to RTFA just to figure out what the submitter meant, it annoys me.
Oh the irony (Score:1)
"Punctuation" refers to the marks made to designate clauses, phrases and sentences (i.e. periods, commas and parentheses). It has very little to do with understanding proper nouns and capitalization.
Don't you just love it when somebody tries to sound all brilliant by cracking
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Aiming High (Score:2, Insightful)
While the reasons behind the indefinite postponement haven't really been clarified ("money... mumble etc mumble..."), it's worth thinking about what exactly Mind Candy were trying to do (or, at least, my impression - as an avid player of season 1 - of what direction they were heading in). Previous posts [perplexcitystories.com] on the developer blog [perplexcitystories.com] hint at the difficulties of getting the technology together, and when you consider what Mindcandy are trying to achieve with it, it's hard to blame them about the recent decision.
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Who Plays alternative-reality games? (Score:1)
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(PM of the ARG StrangeDreams 1 & 2)
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Independent ARGs run the gamut - some are incredibly accesible [dionaea-house.com], others require a lot of dedication. [wikipedia.org] Most
Next! (Score:1)
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> Perplex City Season 2 is not coming out any time soon.
Actually, I know someone who works there, and they're keeping it a secret. PC Season 2 will involve directing all you braniac nerds into seeing who will be the first, the very first, to successfully discover 'the Hairy Triangle'.