-Adam Fosters Impossible Puzzles at Bungie-
Valve's designer Adam Foster talking about Alternate Reality Games at Bungie Studios. What more could you ask for?
If you don't know, Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) are a combination of mystery and cryptography creating an almost impossible puzzle that extends from a fictional game into the real world. Adam specifically designed the great "Radio" ARG seen in the hit game Portal, where strategically placed radios in the levels made strange noises when picked up and moved around.
These were no ordinary noises, but coded bits of information through Morse code and Slow-Scan Television (SSTV, encodes low resolution images in audio form). Within these decoded messages were even more puzzles, which causes the player to do research to figure these bits of information out. It even goes as far as connecting to a random modem to extract rough images of Portal 2, making this entire game end in a Portal 2 announcement!
Big thanks to Adam, the IGDASeattle group, and Bungie for blowing our minds.
Go HERE to read more about what Adam did, it will blow your mind.
Valve's designer Adam Foster talking about Alternate Reality Games at Bungie Studios. What more could you ask for?
If you don't know, Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) are a combination of mystery and cryptography creating an almost impossible puzzle that extends from a fictional game into the real world. Adam specifically designed the great "Radio" ARG seen in the hit game Portal, where strategically placed radios in the levels made strange noises when picked up and moved around.
These were no ordinary noises, but coded bits of information through Morse code and Slow-Scan Television (SSTV, encodes low resolution images in audio form). Within these decoded messages were even more puzzles, which causes the player to do research to figure these bits of information out. It even goes as far as connecting to a random modem to extract rough images of Portal 2, making this entire game end in a Portal 2 announcement!
Big thanks to Adam, the IGDASeattle group, and Bungie for blowing our minds.
Go HERE to read more about what Adam did, it will blow your mind.
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