ARG help!

[Anemone]

I'm the Puppet Master for an ARG (Alternate Reality Game), and I need a little bit of help.

1. Does anyone know of a free file storage site where you can send other people invitations to share the files if they have a password? I need the players to get a file once they've decoded the password, but I don't know of any sites that will allow me to set up this puzzle.

2. Does anyone know any ways to code information besides morse code and ROT13? If you do, that'd be great!

That's about it. If you have any questions about the game, I'm happy to answer them!

[Vorchia]

The thread looks a tad pityable with no responses whatsoever... Now I didn´t respond because I never heard of ´ARG´. Add to that I never got into games much, mostly for a complete and utter lack of talent at it. I have a younger brother (twelve) who has patiently tried to teach me the ways of the Playstation, the various PC games and the Gameboys but well... Suffice it to say that everything he introduced to me as 'really easy', had me killing my personage in in a matter of seconds.
I suggest you just google the name of your game and try to find fora devoted to it. There you can probably find help. I as a games n00b, can't really provide much help with anything game related, unless perhaps in the shape of amusement in watching me break the records for 'worst performance ever'.

BDSP Vorchia

[Barry]

Does anyone know any ways to code information besides morse code and ROT13? If you do, that'd be great!

You could do this, Assign each letter in the alphabet a number. e.g. 7=A, 22=B, 13=C, etc (used to play secret agent with it in my past.) Best of all you can keep changing the combinations so people you don't want can crack it. Or you can use Egyptian Hieroglyphs or something that it. As for the free file storage site I use a X Drive to store and back-up my files from my machine. I don't know if it would work for what you want. I'm like Vorchia. I never heard of this ARG (Alternate Reality Game) before.

— Dwaggie

[Anemone]

Actually, an ARG isn't the name of a game. It's a genre. It's more like a mystery, where the Puppet Master sends out encrypted clues to the players for them to solve, so that they can assemble to clues and act as a collective detective to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Thanks for the ideas, guys! I actually put the ARG on hiatus, as I've been having a rough year personally and can't manage something of the scale I'd planned. It was about conspiracy theories, hackers, and extra-terrestrial technology... Yep.

Unfortunately, a substitution code will be cracked very easily by ARG players. They're used to things like... Getting a morse code sentence from the percussion in a youtube video, translating it out of the several codes it's been put into, finding out it's an ISBN number, searching it, then using a second clue hidden in the source code of a website revealed in the dialogue of afore-mentioned youtube video to reveal an Allen Cypher, using the ISBN number to find the book it refers to, and using the cypher to piece together a message from the book.

And that actually happened in an ARG I read about.

[Vorchia]

Ohh I see... So Anemone, to add an edge to the mystery solving... Is there anything I can translate to Dutch for you for your 'victims'?

[Anemone]

Ooo... That would be so cool... I don't have anything right now, but would you be willing to do that sometime? That'll give them a run for their money.

[Vorchia]

Oh I would... But when you need my translation help you might want to PM me me at the OMB to ensure a fast response, I tend to check the OMB several times a day.