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Old 29th May 07, 5:35 AM   # 1
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New gaming studio? (exoriare.com) [relic related?]

Today when I logged on IRC I found this:

http://www.exoriare.com/

And some say it might be a teaser to a new relic game...
It seems we need 122112 visitors to unlock something? Hopefully more people will find this from the forums.


Edit: If anyone finds something new post in this thread...
Mods: Please don't merge this thread/lock it. IMHO this needs own thread and it maybe something else than a relic game but we can hope and will hope.

Edit2:
It's confirmed. This is related to relic, see below.

Edit3:
This is tangentially related to Relic, but not related to a new Relic game. See below.

EDIT!!:
This is not related to relic in any way as Buggo stated . Discussion is now about the possible riddle behind that page and the possible new gaming studio and their possible games.
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Old 29th May 07, 5:38 AM   # 2
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I have done some studying on the glyphs there. The key for the glyphs is

A D G J M P S V Y
B E H K N Q T W Z
C F I L O R U X

Also the text next to africa, "africa-glyphs", says = __AMGU AGE HAS BEEN C_RR__
I'm still deciphering the text.

Text left from Norway is: _ _ OENIK
WIP too.

Ain't it fun .
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Old 29th May 07, 5:39 AM Forum Rules   # 4
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Interesting, but what makes you think it might be a Relic game?
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Interesting, but what makes you think it might be a Relic game?
I'm all for viral marketing fun, but let's not get our hopes up needlessly here.

Any mathematical significance to "122112?"
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Old 29th May 07, 5:41 AM   # 6
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Seems the server is based in vancouver and the magazine this was got from said it was a relic game, possibly.

I have not confirmed those myself but it's what I'm being told.
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Old 29th May 07, 5:42 AM   # 7
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If it is a Relic game, it's all a bit "WTF" expecting the world to start salivating in general, it reminds me of Eon8 and we all know people are still feeling silly from that. Relic is a niche developer too.

Eh, intriguing though. Spam it people. :P
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Old 29th May 07, 5:43 AM Forum Rules   # 8
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Erm, because we all live in hope.

Nonetheless it's a hella fun looking the site up and down, digging up as much as possible.

My thoughts so far, outside of Relic, suggest it could be a second Transformers viral, but I really have no clue. The page source even has similarities to the Blizzard countdown a week back. But they have no need for such a viral since they've announced their game.

It's definitely a game in development however, the page source tells you that much.
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Old 29th May 07, 5:44 AM Forum Rules   # 9
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Whois info for the domain.

While 'John Johnson' and 'Drew Dunlop' look like fake names (according to dolts on irc ), they are actually relic staff who both worked on COH.

While the addresses dont appear to be for relic, someone should give the numbers a call

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domain: exoriare.com reg_created: 2007-04-12 21:00:34 expires: 2008-04-12 21:00:34 created: 2007-04-12 22:58:23 changed: 2007-04-26 19:40:58 ns0: ns1.dreamhost.com ns1: ns2.dreamhost.com ns2: ns3.dreamhost.com transfer-prohibited: yes owner-c: owner-name: John Johnson organisation: ~ nic-hdl: JJ1015-GANDI person: John Johnson city: North Vancouver country: Canada fax: '' email: f98ed911522b612f189ff3ac37b1411e-jj...ntact.gandi.net lastupdated: 2007-03-21 19:19:34 admin-c: organisation: ~ nic-hdl: JJ1015-GANDI person: John Johnson city: North Vancouver country: Canada fax: '' email: f98ed911522b612f189ff3ac37b1411e-jj...ntact.gandi.net lastupdated: 2007-03-21 19:19:34 tech-c: organisation: ~ nic-hdl: DD2522-GANDI person: Drew Dunlop city: Vancouver country: Canada fax: '' email: 298cd3d438efc47b5158fe547dd0cdc6-dd...ntact.gandi.net lastupdated: 2007-03-21 18:37:06 bill-c: organisation: ~ nic-hdl: JJ1015-GANDI person: John Johnson city: North Vancouver country: Canada fax: '' email: f98ed911522b612f189ff3ac37b1411e-jj...ntact.gandi.net lastupdated: 2007-03-21 19:19:34
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Harumph.
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Old 29th May 07, 5:48 AM   # 11
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http://www.firingsquad.com/news/new...?searchid=13335

Interview with John Johnson from Relic. Confirmed.

(2500 hits soon)
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Old 29th May 07, 5:52 AM Child's Play Donator Forum Rules   # 12
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1) Spamming it does not help - it will only accept one click through. However,
2) The counter does update live. - You don't need to refresh the page to watch new hits collect.
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Ooh, this is quite nifty. It oughta be interesting to see how the blips keep adding to the world map based on where the site gets hits.
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Old 29th May 07, 5:55 AM Child's Play Donator Forum Rules   # 14
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No Blip when I went to it
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Old 29th May 07, 5:56 AM   # 15
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Oh Long John...
Oh Long Johnson...



Spam aside, I've posted the link on 4chan's /v/. Someone else is supposedly gonna spam it on the other parts of 4chan.
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Old 29th May 07, 6:02 AM   # 16
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Added my QUO to the necessary 120,000. I'm a sucker for Viral Marketing.
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Old 29th May 07, 6:07 AM Forum Rules   # 17
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Nice.

Are those blips just decoration or actual places from where many have visited the site?
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Old 29th May 07, 6:09 AM Forum Rules   # 18
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It appears to be a hoax 'not what I first thought it was thing'.

http://www.exoriare.com/images/finalanswer.jpg

Edit: Better Squid?

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Old 29th May 07, 6:09 AM   # 19
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Curently they seem to be just decoration, but the red and black fine lines are added all the time. I guess the blips will only appear in a country after a set number of hits
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Old 29th May 07, 6:12 AM Forum Rules   # 20
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And also GG Relic, but if you could make it a little harder next time, it was fun looking around, but in the end the URL www.exoriare.com/images/ led us to the library that revealed all the answers.

Make another one sometime, but make it harder.

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Old 29th May 07, 6:13 AM   # 21
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So is it a fake or is it really Relic?
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Sword Monkey, why do you call it a hoax if it doesn't tell you anything and then it doesn't turn out to be what you had no reason to expect?
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Old 29th May 07, 6:15 AM   # 23
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http://www.exoriare.com/images/finalanswer.jpg


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Or they're just leaving Relic to make a new studio.
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Old 29th May 07, 6:19 AM Forum Rules   # 25
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Calm down Squid.
We find a site that appears to be a countdown for a games development company.
We figure out it is Relic.
Then an image is found telling us that it is a smoking gun(possibly an apt name for the new studio too).
And simply a little site to celebrate Relics new studio opening.

So I did have reason to expect it to be a new game, even if it was vague.

I know hoax may not have been the best word, but it sure as hell did allude to a new game.

I look forward to hearing more about the new studio, that site has too little information on it as of yet.
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Old 29th May 07, 6:23 AM   # 26
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Yeah Im with Akranadas with this, wheres my darn blip!
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Old 29th May 07, 6:25 AM   # 27
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Looking through the directory of images I found:

http://www.exoriare.com/images/radar_07_launch.gif

With the website looking rather technical, in this day and age only one thing gets launched.

Methinks this could be a post-Nuclear/Nuclear war game.
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what once was what now is
Thats what I managed to get from the writing on the side of the main page (Where you input the code)
Interesting page, though. The location almost seems random (I have gotten Australia on one computer, and United states on another. Other people have also gotten stragne ones).
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Old 29th May 07, 6:38 AM   # 29
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122112 or 21st December 2012 is 'widely' regarded as the end of the world.
Perhaps a game based around this time?

edit: link to some stuff about 122112
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This is smoking gun
http://www.exoriare.com/images/artifact.jpg
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Who knows what this is.

End of the world? Hey, I'll be there to laugh at them that they were wrong.
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Oh right, Dec 12, 2012 is analogous to the Year 2000 of the Mayan calendar. Not that they thought it was the end of the world, mind. It's just when the calendar turns over. Well spotted!
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The image folder has been made inaccesible. They are reading this thread! FIND THEM AND DESTROY THEM!
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Old 29th May 07, 7:03 AM   # 34
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http://www.exoriare.com/images/k1od96jh.jpg
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I think those are initials of people in the group.
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Old 29th May 07, 7:06 AM Forum Rules   # 35
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What about poor Drew Dunlop?

And it doesn't appear they'll be reaching the threshold any time soon.
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Hmmm?

Viral is sexy.
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Since the images page is no longer accessible, and mine was left open I thought I might just put it here for people to see.
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Old 29th May 07, 7:20 AM Forum Rules   # 38
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Okay so were all assuming it has anything remotely to do with Relic, even though there is no indication whatsoever, bar some obviously mistaken comment in a magazine?.

I expected better from you forumites.



Now, back to good conspiracy theorizing.

*cough*homeworld3*cough*.
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Old 29th May 07, 7:23 AM Forum Rules   # 39
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Okay so were all assuming it has anything remotely to do with Relic, even though there is no indication whatsoever, bar some obviously mistaken comment in a magazine?.

I expected better from you forumites.


What, something like this? Yeah, reading comprehension is really something, eh?
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Exoriare/Exorior means to rise, in Latin, by the way.
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hybris, I already translated that one earlier.
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I forget the significance of the sphere with the ten lines emananting from origin.

Reminds of Stargate kinda.
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Old 29th May 07, 7:54 AM   # 46
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I'm so excited. Damn you Relic for slipping up with the image folder!
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Not only did they slip up, but I went and immortalised the mistake!
What I would like though, is for someone to check if any employees have initials that match up to one of the pictures (I linked and translated it last page). If they match, we would have some pretty good evidence that its Relic.
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Mnementh: Is that supposed to mean something to me?.

Is it Relic HQ address?.

Otherwise it doesn't mean shit.
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No, it's a server registered to two Relic employees, that's the link, not that tenuous, but not certain either.
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Salamander:

JH is Jennifer Hawke, assistant producer

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