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need help with dr exoskeleton
Digital_wino
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My team is on level 43. The only clue is this picture:
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/two-holstein-friesian-cows-in-field-england-high-res-stock-photography/305491-002
For anyone that doesn't know, its a scavenger hunt/knowledge challenge thing. You have to come up with answers based on clues. The answers usually have to do with something here at PAX or gaming. Any help would be nice.
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/two-holstein-friesian-cows-in-field-england-high-res-stock-photography/305491-002
For anyone that doesn't know, its a scavenger hunt/knowledge challenge thing. You have to come up with answers based on clues. The answers usually have to do with something here at PAX or gaming. Any help would be nice.
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We are three of the minions behind Dr. Exoskeleton. We love to see and hear about your stories and struggles. We encourage it! One thing that makes us sad is seeing the answers to our puzzles in a public and searchable place during the game. For those who finish we spend our own hard earned money on prizes, and we want to make sure they go to teams that got the answers with hard work and sweat. A hard working minion makes for better soul consumption!
Also, this is a timed competition, and ranking matters. All teams are part of a secret club, and those who win are the elite few.
The best resource for the tough questions are the other 20,000 nerds and geeks walking around PAX. Maybe you will even bump into another team. Our personal favorite story involves a team unknowingly asking Wil Wheaton for help on a question that was about him! That must have been awkward for both of them.
We hope you are all having as much fun playing this as we did making it and watching it unfold!
With Love,
Minions
-Dr Exoskeleton will consume your soul
Thanks for this game, it's kept us busy all day. Some rather frustrating moments trying to figure out exactly what phrasing is needed for some of these, (then it feels more like a game of "fight the parser") but overall it has been an exciting and fun challenge!
we had fun soliciting help from strangers on a lot of these, even got Jerry to guess a bit on the one we're stuck on now!
Update: finally got that one. Don't really feel like the answer was a good one, but oh well. Moving on, wish us luck!
Now we're stuck on the book excerpt.
I think you already talked to us this morning I'm one of the people from team red
For the smells like grass question, a hint is that you're looking for an object, not a character. The next question might be the death of me. :P
Still having fun though... We kinda skipped most of PAX yesterday and today for this.
We send stuff to every team that finishes. That stuff should go to teams that put in the work.
This sort of thing makes it much less fun for us, and we're less likely to do it again in the future. We spend hundreds of hours on this, and we do it for the love.
If you don't win this year, there's always next time, and there's no shame in not completing the game. In fact, playing multiple years is part of the design and should be part of the fun.
We don't want to squash your fun, hope you all understand. Maybe we need to make some changes in the future.
-The Minions
Dr Exoskeleton will consume your soul
I think people are having alot of fun. But it is amazingly frustrating to get stuck on a single question and be unable to advance. Especially since some of the questions are very obscure and a couple just don't make sense.
Perhaps have it so you can skip a question and come back to it later and/or have the rankings based on how many are right. Also it would be really cool to see all the questions and answers after everythign is done.
Anyways, I know you guys are having fun, but we want to have fun too.
Just some ideas since you asked for some. I hope they help ake it more fun for everyone!
This was my first PAX, and I had fun with the game, but pretty much missed the rest of the con because we were working on the puzzles the whole time. I'm not quite sure how I feel about that... heh.
I agree with the suggestion about skipping questions and coming back to them, and the one about random selection. It would also be really nice if a correct answer could have more than one specific way of being entered. We had a couple where we kept putting the right thing in, but because we didn't phrase it -just so-, it didn't work. That was really kind of upsetting. (For example: I entered the full name of a game, and it was the shortened name that was acceptable, but we wasted a lot of time thinking we didn't know the correct answer.)
Anyway, we did enjoy it overall, and I'm glad we got to play.
I'll agree with the minions in this thread about not posting answers (or even hints) publicly - it's a bit of a downer on the fun.
I'd like to also say that I find the current format to be perfect. It keeps it brain-wrackingly challenging, but still very simple to grasp (i.e., little-to-no explanation needed). It's also probably easier on the Minions for scoring and keeping track.
My only suggestion would be to have a history of the questions used, perhaps paired with our attempted answers to the questions. When it came time to look back on what we'd accomplished (and tell stories), I had trouble recalling some of the questions simply because we were working at such a furious pace.
Anyway, thanks again for the game! PAX is good, but Exoskeleton is awesome. We'll be back next year!
Stay consumed,
Iocaine
P.S.: Which team was it who wished us (two) good luck on the Bioshock related question, nearby the big ol' mural o' faces? I meant to ask! Only curious.
EDIT: Oh, another suggestion! Perhaps a 5-year anniversary PAX Prime meetup/panel? Dying to meet our glorious soul-consuming leader.