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Peter Molyneux's Curiosity cube is now open, contents still a mystery

55 points by ihuman 13y ago

ColinWright 13y ago
More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_%E2%80%93_What%27s_Inside_the_Cube%3F http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_%E2%80%93_What%27s_In... Apparently the winner is in the UK: https://twitter.com/pmolyneux/status/338677057481490432 https://twitter.com/pmolyneux/status/338677057481490432 Apparently they have said they will share the result: https://twitter.com/pmolyneux/status/338686110966353920 https://twitter.com/pmolyneux/status/338686110966353920 A video of the result: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5771496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5771496
mathieuh 13y ago
What the winner saw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhzb9OUWrXU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhzb9OUWrXU
- sek 13y ago
  So the winner get's cash for people spending money on Godus and to decide stuff about the game....
0x0 13y ago
Here's the winner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bryanh559 https://twitter.com/Bryanh559
bradhe 13y ago
This guy is a genius. He got 5mil people to tap incessantly on their screens with such a simple mechanic!
feral 13y ago
"You, the person who has reached the centre will be the god of all people who are playing Godus. [Molyneux's upcoming god game.] You will decide on the rules the game is played by. [...] Every time people spend money you will get a small piece of that pie." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhzb9OUWrXU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhzb9OUWrXU Reminds me a little of 'ready player one' on a much smaller scale. I hope they think it was worth all that time tapping.
- gambiting 13y ago
  It would be really funny if the person who won started playing only in the last hour and logged in to see what is all of that about.
  - UberMouse 13y ago
    That is exactly what happened “People are going to hate me for this,” Henderson told Wired in a phone interview, “but I only registered for the game earlier this morning, about an hour before I won the thing.”
    - hosh 13y ago
      Awesome! It's pretty much winning the lottery.
- IvyMike 13y ago
  This was all a promo for Godus? "A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!"
  - Udo 13y ago
    It's way more than I expected the reward to be. The winner gets a say when it comes to the rules of Godus and gets a cut of the profits.
  - guiambros 13y ago
    Commercial? They are paying the winner, plus letting him/her be an intrinsic part of the game. This is a lot more than I expected. I was thinking it'd be something trivial and self-promotional, like some autographed copies of Godus, or maybe a vintage Black & White t-shirt.
    - hosh 13y ago
      Also: according to the article, the winner asked 22Cans to make the video public. Otherwise, we would never have known what it was about.
benwerd 13y ago
Contents no longer a mystery; are instead a setup for what is basically the gaming world's answer to reality TV. This could go either way.
sp332 13y ago
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!
sunseb 13y ago
By the way, strange that's the winner is too in the UK...
- ancarda 13y ago
  There may be a good reason; the servers for the game ultimately decide what user tapped on the final cube. It's likely the servers were in the UK and thus latency would put US players at a disadvantage.
rossjudson 13y ago
Feels like a kickstarted lottery, in a way. But since the winner didn't really know what the prize would be, the precise regulatory environment such a thing would operate in is pretty grey!
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dreen 13y ago
I initially thought that looked a bit like a lame attempt to get money while "provoking dialog about what makes game a game" or something arty farty like that, because he makes it sound like that. Now it seems it's a rather clever attempt at crowd funding.
- hosh 13y ago
  I am not sure why there is so much hate and vitriol against Peter Molynuex's ... uh, what did you say, "arty farty". On the comments for the Engadget article, there were lots and lots of incessant comments about his pretentiousness. People reacting with cringes. What is up with that? It's like listening to a bunch of middle school kids at an art museum.
  - dreen 13y ago
    well, because, sounding pretentious is a negative connotation. pre·ten·tious /priˈtenCHəs/ Adjective Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed. I have no hate for PM, he is a cool guy. But sometimes he is needlessly pretentious.
    - hosh 13y ago
      That doesn't answer anything. I know what pretentious means. What I don't understand is why people _don't_ think what Molyneux is doing is important, or have culture. Why do people _feel_ hatred and shame for him?
mesozoic 13y ago
Well I just got unsold on Godus.

55 points by ihuman 13y ago

More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_%E2%80%93_What%27s_Inside_the_Cube%3F http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_%E2%80%93_What%27s_In... Apparently the winner is in the UK: https://twitter.com/pmolyneux/status/338677057481490432 https://twitter.com/pmolyneux/status/338677057481490432 Apparently they have said they will share the result: https://twitter.com/pmolyneux/status/338686110966353920 https://twitter.com/pmolyneux/status/338686110966353920 A video of the result: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5771496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5771496

mathieuh 13y ago

What the winner saw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhzb9OUWrXU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhzb9OUWrXU

sek 13y ago
So the winner get's cash for people spending money on Godus and to decide stuff about the game....

0x0 13y ago

Here's the winner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bryanh559 https://twitter.com/Bryanh559

bradhe 13y ago

This guy is a genius. He got 5mil people to tap incessantly on their screens with such a simple mechanic!

feral 13y ago

"You, the person who has reached the centre will be the god of all people who are playing Godus. [Molyneux's upcoming god game.] You will decide on the rules the game is played by. [...] Every time people spend money you will get a small piece of that pie." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhzb9OUWrXU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhzb9OUWrXU Reminds me a little of 'ready player one' on a much smaller scale. I hope they think it was worth all that time tapping.

gambiting 13y ago
It would be really funny if the person who won started playing only in the last hour and logged in to see what is all of that about.
- UberMouse 13y ago
  That is exactly what happened “People are going to hate me for this,” Henderson told Wired in a phone interview, “but I only registered for the game earlier this morning, about an hour before I won the thing.”
  - hosh 13y ago
    Awesome! It's pretty much winning the lottery.
IvyMike 13y ago
This was all a promo for Godus? "A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!"
- Udo 13y ago
  It's way more than I expected the reward to be. The winner gets a say when it comes to the rules of Godus and gets a cut of the profits.
- guiambros 13y ago
  Commercial? They are paying the winner, plus letting him/her be an intrinsic part of the game. This is a lot more than I expected. I was thinking it'd be something trivial and self-promotional, like some autographed copies of Godus, or maybe a vintage Black & White t-shirt.
  - hosh 13y ago
    Also: according to the article, the winner asked 22Cans to make the video public. Otherwise, we would never have known what it was about.

benwerd 13y ago

Contents no longer a mystery; are instead a setup for what is basically the gaming world's answer to reality TV. This could go either way.

sp332 13y ago

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!

sunseb 13y ago

By the way, strange that's the winner is too in the UK...

ancarda 13y ago
There may be a good reason; the servers for the game ultimately decide what user tapped on the final cube. It's likely the servers were in the UK and thus latency would put US players at a disadvantage.

rossjudson 13y ago

Feels like a kickstarted lottery, in a way. But since the winner didn't really know what the prize would be, the precise regulatory environment such a thing would operate in is pretty grey!

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dreen 13y ago

I initially thought that looked a bit like a lame attempt to get money while "provoking dialog about what makes game a game" or something arty farty like that, because he makes it sound like that. Now it seems it's a rather clever attempt at crowd funding.

hosh 13y ago
I am not sure why there is so much hate and vitriol against Peter Molynuex's ... uh, what did you say, "arty farty". On the comments for the Engadget article, there were lots and lots of incessant comments about his pretentiousness. People reacting with cringes. What is up with that? It's like listening to a bunch of middle school kids at an art museum.
- dreen 13y ago
  well, because, sounding pretentious is a negative connotation. pre·ten·tious /priˈtenCHəs/ Adjective Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed. I have no hate for PM, he is a cool guy. But sometimes he is needlessly pretentious.
  - hosh 13y ago
    That doesn't answer anything. I know what pretentious means. What I don't understand is why people _don't_ think what Molyneux is doing is important, or have culture. Why do people _feel_ hatred and shame for him?

mesozoic 13y ago

Well I just got unsold on Godus.