I can discern many different things from this image.
Which one i'm supposed to conjure up is unknown to me
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Is it weird I can't tell if it's a man or a woman? :S
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OMG That's David Bowie... WTF Budgie?
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its an example
DON'T JUDGE!!!!
(the main thing will be fixed don't worry)
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Nope not yet. Still a VN giveaway going and I have a LOT of things to make in any case.
Also coupled with the fact I'm still purchasing games as I speak
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Awesome giveaway, I nearly entered all your japanese novel giveaways too.
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Well as this is supposed to be some test for both you and us let me point out that for any puzzler such a format of labyrinth is pointless - actual link to GA/discussion can be navigated without clicking all links but in seconds by just viewing source code ;) No matter how many possibilities there are - there may be 10000, there may be 10000000 it can be all solved in matter of seconds (View Source -> Ctrl+F -> /giveaway/ ;) Maybe you will wish to change format somehow, as you still have time ;) Good foolproof method against it would be having all fake links leading to some old already ended GAs (just don't link to non-existant GAs, because SG has currently anti-bruteforce system and after X wrong tries of entering valid GA code it will block user for 24h from trying any new GA codes whether they are valid or not).
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Already thought about that. Thanks for the input!
I have some rigged up games previously that ended already so It shouldn't be a problem
As stated above, this was only meant as an example and not the real thing :)
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The source code was my first thought too.
If I get my home internet back by then I'll dare enter the deepest of dungeos, though I fear it might be way too much work for you to link to all the "fake" giveaways :\
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I didn't go into this thinking it'd be easy to make 10000 links.
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You could use any giveaway of any member that has already ended (given they were public ones) as dead ends if you want to make it source code proof.
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bumping this thread.
I need somebody to test the hyperlinks in the source to make sure its "challenging" enough
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yes, just checked all those ? and didn't find anything only visual novel theard and then I read it's not started yet :P
so have a bump! :D
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so if you didn't know which giveaway was coming up, you might take time figuring out the right one?
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with some tips - yes, if you want to make it more challenging still yes, but it would take much longer (took about 4-5 minutes to open all links and mark where I finished exactly not to skip any). I wasn't checking comments though... so if someone would look only for 'blue text' which means link in the description than it's really hard as you get in routine around ~20 and do things mechanicly :)
But pay attention to what zelgh said, I know that way as well (even without knowing too much about such things). So if you will tell exactly what to look for, it can be too easy.
All depends on how difficult you want it to be :) But it will be a real massacre to find something well hidden among 100 gibs :P
But YES, I love the idea :3
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the thing is that the people who choose to do it will not know what games I'm giving away and in what order.
They have to guess on which games and I won't tell them so they can't just Ctrl+F and (insert game name) to easily find it.
Do you think that's hard enough? (especially since 100 items of giveaway the same way)
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not sure if hard, I think more proper word is "time consuming".
difficulty will depend on how you are going to hide "way to the next giveaway".
If it will be just a link in description or to make it a little bit harder somewhere among the comments under the giveaway, than yeah, it will feel kind of like exploring the caves and looking for a right way, especially if you will intersperse ended/fake gibs with the right ones in good proportions and possibility in coming to the dead end.
Hope I got your idea right, because I imagine it as a train with snaking between ended and chosen giveaways.
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I think if any machine was just to open up 100 tabs then the person was to look at all 100 tabs, they'd have to do that 100 times.
I suppose "time consuming" is more fun for the community as "hard" would probably make many people frustrated.
Then again 100 exploration of the labyrinth might just as well make people frustrated.
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maybe frustrated, but for sure they won't just give up. Not in this community :P
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You can remove the game name from your links, just keep the final slash.
If you plan to reuse the fake links, be sure to at least randomize the order :)
Obviously unique links will be best, but also more work!
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much better :> can still be automated, but any labyrinth can - but for most ofthe userbase it will not be possible to automate it so it's much better as a puzzle now :>
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Would you assume then (by using this formula) that it'd be ready for the real thing?
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yup - seems easy enough yet not as easy as to few-sec-solving or to automate to make it fun, popular and widely accessible event :>
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Your labyrinth is ridiculous. Respect to the people that dig through it. Have a Pressure key. 3PWN0-XH???-DQWJZ
??? = American federal law enforcement organization known for not having a sense of humor
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My fellow Travelers,
Word has been going around that some archaeologists have found something
Something they couldn't believe........
It was a Cavern. But not just a normal cavern.
This was one of the famed "100 giveaways" Caverns thought to have been lost in time
Does this mean we've finally found it? Have we finally found them all?
We thought we did.......
Sadly, the Labyrinth plays tricks on the minds of people. There are 100 different paths per giveaway.
Only one path leads further down the path to the bigger and the best
Rumored were Metal Gear Phantom Pain, Tales of Zestiria, and even Fallout 4 near the end.....
Perhaps a Myth? Or Perhaps truth.
We've simulated an example of what the labyrinth may be like. All of these links except 1 will lead you to ended giveaways from other users. The only "1" will lead you to the VN giveaway that was setup a while back. This is an example of what the "labyrinth" will be like.
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
The researchers have said they made some "inns" every 10 levels a person goes down so as not to have them revert to the start again, but merely that inn instead. At "inns" the community of adventurers will talk about the first 10 levels (humorously?) through the labyrinth. IF they dare, move on to the next 10.
100 giveaways
100 paths per giveaway
10000 possibilities
Will you Enter?
Edit --- The actual start will begin sometime in January. Perhaps earlier here in December all depends
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