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Difference between revisions of "Obduction ARG"
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| + | The site hiredark.com simulates the appearance of a Linux/Unix shell (terminal) running a count-down timer. The timer is scripted in (dynamic) PHP, which generates a Javascript script. The units of the timer appear to be milliseconds, and the timer itself appears to be counting down to January 6, 2014. In addition, the script is coded to display the message "You do not have sufficient permission to cancel this process." if the user attempts to "end" the counter from the simulated command line using the key combination CTRL+C. | ||
Revision as of 22:42, 31 October 2013
Obduction Alternate Reality Game (ARG) Progress
In late August, Cyan Worlds, Inc. began releasing hints and clues to what would later be revealed to be their new game project, Obduction.
The Three Words
During the Kickstarter video for the game, three words are displayed.
- 3:20 - yellowbrick
- 3:23 - firelight
- 4:05 - germinate
When these words were discovered, and subsequently entered at the Cyan forums, the ("swear-word") filter changed the words to:
- yellowbrick: is.gd
- firelight: odu
- germinate: tol
This was found to be a short URL link: http://is.gd/odutol
The shortlink led to a YouTube video with the title 4/3 π r3, uploaded by user Chester C.
YouTube Video
The title of the video is the equation for finding the volume of a sphere.
The video is three seconds long, cycling through different round or spherical images.
The audio of the video (a series of high-pitched beeping sounds) was found to contain a QR code leading to the site hiredark.com [1].
Hiredark
The site hiredark.com simulates the appearance of a Linux/Unix shell (terminal) running a count-down timer. The timer is scripted in (dynamic) PHP, which generates a Javascript script. The units of the timer appear to be milliseconds, and the timer itself appears to be counting down to January 6, 2014. In addition, the script is coded to display the message "You do not have sufficient permission to cancel this process." if the user attempts to "end" the counter from the simulated command line using the key combination CTRL+C.