Game Hint #1

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

Nothing has been ruled out, as we do not know what the game is ... yet.

Just because the background image is bleedthru from the next page in the book does not eliminate it as being part of the clue ... unless you know something you're not telling us

We found it online with a google image search of moonfish? Exact same image

[cloud]

Originally Posted by Dragons527

Its definitely the windows program, windows is in one of the towns in the riddle and moonfish is a windows program

wow this seems to be my favorite explanation even though idk what they want with windows

[BJT]

Overheard at a GDC meeting a few weeks ago:
Dave: So, you guys want to have some fun?
Dean: Yeah, what did you have in mind?
Dave: Let's post a picture of a fish.

[juanac06]

Maybe this will help you guys read it not sure. Hope I helped.

i tried....

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by juanac06

i tried....

As did others before you ...

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

We found it online with a google image search of moonfish? Exact same image

... and what makes you think they didn't choose that picture because it has an image thats bleeding through and not because it's a moonfish?

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

... and what makes you think they didn't choose that picture because it has an image thats bleeding through and not because it's a moonfish?

I have to ask who would google moonfish looking for an image that is bleedthrough?

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

I have to ask who would google moonfish looking for an image that is bleedthrough?

Dave?

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

Dave?

ROFL!!!

[Jonathan W.]

Originally Posted by Ice Berg

Take a look at the image from an angle to your screen. There is a silhouette and some illegible text in the background.

I see a silhouette of a ufo, so i googled "fish ufo" and the first hit was
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SZPTV2JGJw
We will be using a green light again

[Ambrielle]

Originally Posted by Dragons527

Its definitely the windows program, windows is in one of the towns in the riddle and moonfish is a windows program

That's a great observation, but I don't know how that could relate to the game.

[SCROSSLEY-GCEC]

has it occured to anyone else that after all this speculation, about all the fish had to do with it was the name of the fish?
well, that and the optional colour sensing

[Roger]

I was thinking moonfish as two different things, the first being the Moon, obviously, but the second as a "hockey fish", playing up the playing surface as an icefloor. I first heard this term in a book "The Shockwave River", an interesting SF novel from 1975 that predicts many things, including how intertwined the internet will be with people. Strangely, not via computers but touchkey desk phones with a screen.

I haven't been able to track down what is a "hockey fish" -- in the novel it is referred as a "hockey 'fish" and seems to be someone who follows a particular hockey team. It could be a current term in the hockey world, or just a very obscure reference the GDC came up with.

In the novel it came along with "sweedack", which I also thought was a current hockey term, but one internet source says it was also created in the book -- a French contraction of 'je suis d'accord' used by French-Canadian hockey players in the novel.

[smartkid]

So let me get this right, the only thing about this hint that was part of the game was the word: "moon." Man we / I overlooked the obvious.

[kevin.li.rit]

Originally Posted by smartkid

So let me get this right, the only thing about this hint that was part of the game was the word: "moon." Man we / I overlooked the obvious.

They could have also meant that our robots will be fish-tailing.