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Hidden Treasures?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Cyclops, Apr 1, 2011.

  1. Cyclops

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    Curiosity is one of my major failings :) So after reading the question Free game on cereal box, I had to figure out both the cereal, and game in question.

    The results were... odd... My first attempt, of course, was Googling for breakfast cereal unity-based game.

    This brought up an apparently useful link, to wn.com (a fairly obvious rip-off site), with Google's summary as follows:
    This certainly looked good - but upon going to wn.com, all I found was a 1994 video of cereal commercials, one of which was Hidden Treasures. On the side, however, was another video, Paper sculptures by Ken Vandre, which did have the quoted text:
    The YouTube video comment had a date of 2009. Stopping by the Enchanted Kiosk link showed it was broken - the trail was cold... :(

    Further research turned up Enchanted Kiosk, which looked promising. In fact, on the second page of the blog, he says:
    .So - we have a cereal, Hidden Treasures, which was released (and flopped) from 1993 to 1995. Unity was launched in 1995, and a video connected with a Unity game was created in 2009.

    Conclusion - there's no connection, other than Google mashing up the words into a single, tantalizing summary :(

    I have no idea what Unity game was ever associated with a breakfast cereal. Maybe I'll hit the grocery stores next...
     
    Cyclops, Apr 1, 2011
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  2. terransage

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    Hello, Cyclops, you already emailed me about this, but I thought I better give a "formal" answer in the Unity Forum. As I said in the email, I wasn't doing any interactive or Unity-based work in 1995. I did, however, develop "The Hidden Lands" game in 2009, using Unity, and put it on my old Website, The Enchanted Kiosk. Ironically, one of my interactive games was originally called the Hidden Treasure Path, but I released it with the title "The Secret Treasure Path" instead. I also created the paper castles you saw in the YouTube video.

    You mentioned that wn.com was a content farm, a term I never heard before. Sounds fairly evil. One of my old Website forums was completely hijacked by the Russian mafia (I suspect, because suddenly all of the posts were in Russian and led to porn sites), and I lost all control of it, never to have access to it again. :( Oops, got off on a strange tangent there....
     
    terransage, Apr 2, 2011
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  3. Cyclops

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    Not sure what you mean about a "formal" answer - I don't think I misrepresented your site, or anything that would require a response. :)

    And I'm not entirely sure if "content farm" is what they are - there are a number of site types that (ab)use the content of other sites, such as:
    Sounds like you may have been a victim of the last one, unfortunately
     
    Cyclops, Apr 3, 2011
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  4. terransage

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    Oh no, I didn't mean it that way. "Formal" was definitely the wrong word. (I didn't feel you misrepresented anything.) What I meant was that I wanted to answer part of your question--the part that I know the answer to--in the forum. I'm not even sure why I said "formal."
     
    terransage, Apr 5, 2011
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