I'm doing a research project about immersive entertainment in television and film, to link up with some of the research I've already done with videogames. I don't know if any of you are familiar with The Beast, developed by Dreamworks and Microsoft, but as I was researching the Cloudmakers I discovered the following with an eerie reference to the recent Lost game's clues...
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http://www.cloudmakers.org/othergames/
Lockjaw
Lockjaw is the heir apparent to The Beast, in that its Puppet Masters are Cloudmakers and it is designed to be every bit as compelling as The Beast was. Jawbreakers is the group that has formed to be the Lockjaw game's collective detective. Read the Jawbreakers' quick start guide to understanding Lockjaw, and then join up to help them crack the case.
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JJ Abrams has organized web games before, for Alias, and I'm wondering if his Lost game isn't designed to hook up in the grander scheme of things. I wonder if perhaps Abrams himself wasn't at one point a Cloudmaker. Anyhoo... just something to run with, if people want to get into solving the mystery of this game. If Abrams is sticking true to the Cloudmaker's mentality, then it means that the group of people on the bleeding edge of the Lost game will actually be able to influence the course of events in the Lost television show.
Afterthought: Do you guys think we should make another thread for the Lost game? It's kind of tangential to the show proper, but it would be fun to play it with other TFPers. There are also plenty of other sites for playing it, but... well, just a thought.