May day: reckonings

Auckland
#1

I’ll put in this thread all the post-May Day stuff. It’s separate to the feedback thread.

Documenting May Day attractively was always gonna be pretty hard because there’s not much costume, the aim is to look normal in a normal place doing not-normal stuff, and most of the game is happening in your head or on a cellphone. Anyway, here’s something you can definately show your friends.

Preview:

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Site has pics, videos, stories. Works best in Internet Explorer, took me hours, thanks to Adam-Doco for the excellend camera operation.
Requires recent Quicktime (H264) codecs.

I’ll post my future plans and other end-game stuff here later.

#2

Just started to look through site. :smiley:
Looks Very Cool so far.
Excellent work Craig, more work than the LARP itself ??

#3

Very commendable in all respects: a great effort from all those involved. I suggest there be an exclusive interview sometime in the future.

In other words, very well done!!

#4

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When I saw that page at first glance I thought that you guys had really gotten into trouble with the police and been on the news. Very nice website.
I couldn’t get visuals on the video clips, alas, they used a compressor or something that my computer didn’t know how to find.

Steph

#5

[quote=“Stephanie”][splutter]
When I saw that page at first glance I thought that you guys had really gotten into trouble with the police and been on the news. Very nice website.
I couldn’t get visuals on the video clips, alas, they used a compressor or something that my computer didn’t know how to find.

Steph[/quote]

Thanks :smiley:

I’ve had a few “OMG you were on the news :O”'s already, which I like hugely. Looking at the site for a little while you can figure out it’s mocked, though. Everyone has. Which is good.

The first video (20mb) is Quicktime and requires a fairly new version of it with a leet new codec.
The second two are the same file format but inside ZIP compression. Windows XP should handle this natively. I think “StuffIT” is the Mac program to handle ZIP. Let me know if you’re still having trouble…

#6

coooolness. great job on the site craigy~

#7

Impressive site!

Now to trick some overseas news organization into picking up the story…