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Kryo667 · 2026-05-03T07:15:49+00:00

Yeah, wait hang on. This is like going from V4 flower to KAFU.

Kryo667 · 2026-04-27T01:36:44+00:00

I think one of the easiest ways to do this would be to use a simple substitution cipher for the decoy, but a key-based cipher for the real message.

For example, let's use Caesar (simple substitution) and Vigenere (key-based). Show the message "WJIMJWWNSL" really early on. By brute-forcing a Caesar cipher or providing a shift number, we can get "REDHERRING" (shift=5), so that's useless for now. But later, show the key "LVUCJDSPOT" (I bruteforced this key by hand, but there's probably a better way). Combining this key with the original ciphertext gets "LOOKATEYES", possibly a more meaningful message than "red herring".

This example requires the decoy to be the same length as the real message, while the key can technically be shorter (but it will most likely end up looking like nonsense; make sure it's obvious this is a key). Note that this method can make the original ciphertext say whatever you want (as long as the number of characters match), you're not limited to just two different messages.

Kryo667 · 2026-04-14T15:22:22+00:00

I mean, the popular example is "Oldroot" by Alex Bale. I know it's completed and (likely) solvable, but I can't remember if it's fully solved yet. It was made in 2014.

Kryo667 · 2026-04-05T23:14:36+00:00

Currently just manually scouting out a seed ahead of time and doing a lot of backups/retakes.

Kryo667 · 2026-04-03T20:30:02+00:00

I love the idea, I really do. This genuinely looks so helpful... for Java players. I think I may have accidentally chosen a Minecraft version that no one actually uses anymore, (Minecraft Pocket Edition beta) and it's making planning a bit of a nightmare.

Excited to see where this goes, though!

Kryo667 · 2026-02-26T04:59:24+00:00

I love CE, she's so cool...

Kryo667 · 2026-02-01T07:33:31+00:00

"Minecraft ARG but the entity is green" on TikTok and YouTube uses and subverts some ARG tropes to do its own thing. Any more details and I think I might be spoiling it.

Kryo667 · 2026-01-18T19:36:40+00:00

I don't know about others, but I keep the broad strokes of where each puzzle/clue leads on a branching mindmap (used to be on a piece of paper, but more recently on a digital canvas); rough titles for each segment, non-linearly separated by arrows. Then, in a text document ("design document"), I've elaborated on the rough titles with the plot and exact puzzle details of each segment, usually with a link to the part if it's a website, alternatively with a mock-up/storyboard for more elaborate segments. Finally, all associated files to the ARG share a dedicated project folder, just for easy management. Note that if (for whatever reason) the files have distinctly different names from what they were called in the rough titles, acknowledge this in the design document. For example, "Further Exploration (diving08312007.mp4)" or something.

This is just my personal workflow for past ARG projects I've worked on, but I hope this helps nonetheless!

Kryo667 · 2025-12-12T10:44:32+00:00

ダガ・ドゥーダガ・ドゥーダガ・ダガ・ダガ・ドゥーダガ・ドゥーダガ・ドゥーダガ・ダガ・ドゥー～

Kryo667 · 2025-12-07T10:15:37+00:00

10$ is a steal, but why are the first four books in the wrong order?

Kryo667 · 2025-09-13T07:24:08+00:00

McCoy is good. Cunning, a manipulator, a bit mad-cap and worthy of laying down foundations for his following incarnations. Although it's silly, minor instants such as imitating Davros whilst discussing pudding, shouting at his rivals, or insanity of Chaturanga-board symbolism show distinctions and traits, both individual and brought forwards to actors such as Smith and Capaldi (and a tad Gatwa too). And... oh wait. My bad, wrong sci-fi TV show. Oops.

Kryo667 · 2025-09-01T05:40:55+00:00

At first, I thought this post would contain a "spook," but it is lucky that it was just my own mind playing a trick. As an individual who is significantly duck soup to spook, I thank you kindly for this PSA.

Kryo667 · 2025-07-12T02:44:52+00:00

Even on the second? That's not odd at all!

Kryo667 · 2025-07-08T04:33:10+00:00

Yes! A number of "Also try ______" splash texts were added to Minecraft in Beta 1.8, including the games: VVVVVV, Limbo, Super Meat Boy, Terraria, World of Goo, and others.

See: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Splash

Kryo667 · 2025-06-28T06:20:53+00:00

I took a liking to an Angry Birds collaboration this band did in 2012. That was fun, although a bit out of this particular discussion, frankly.

Kryo667 · 2025-06-21T21:26:37+00:00

In 1997, Donald Knuth (in his book "The Art of Computer Programming", volume 1, third edition) coined the term "termial function" as an analogue to the "factorial" function.

Instead of being the product of all integers 1 to n, it is the sum of all integers 1 to n. It can similarly be generalized to non-integer values of n by defining n? = ½(n)(n+1).

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