Check out the source code on that Prey website

[sflufan]

Viewing the source code on the page shows a line of binary code. Translated, it says:

"Hiding things in the source code is so 20th century. If you're looking for more info: PC Gamer. June issue. Worldwide debut".

Hehehe - this is kinda like what Valve did prior to HL2's release by burying messages in the source code.

[Bludd]

Nice find.

Here's a converter script for people who want to try this for themselves:

http://www.roubaixinteractive.com/Pl...ry_To_Text.asp

[Claws]

That's cool. I really really hope this game has substance (3DR's signature really) over style... I can't help it though I'm a little skeptical, HumanHead studios isn't really that great of a developer. :/

[John]

I'm looking to see what the Doom 3 engine is capable of.

[SyntaxN]

wow, very cool!
I hope there will be something similar in the Duke forums soon....

[Ivan]

Good find, well done 3DR!

[Rider]

Hail to 3DR...

btw, I found this digging through the Source the DNF Profile page here at 3DR... bit hard to find though...

0100001101100001011011
10001001110111010000100
0000111011101100001011
01001011101000010000001
1101000110100101101100
01101100001000000110100 
1011101000010011101110
01100100000011001000110
1111011011100110010100
11111100100000010101110 
1100101001000000110001
10110111101110101011011 
0001100100011011100010
01110111010000100000011 
0010101101001011101000
11010000110010101110010
0010111000101110001011
10000011010000101000001 
0100001010011101010110
11100111010001101001011
0110000100000011011100
11011110111011100101110

<font color="#1F1F22">Ofcourse it's a hoax, whattaya expect?</font>

[Bludd]

You're messing it up, Rider.

[Rider]

I know, I promise never to play with binary again.

[Gryph]

3DR, I love you. Human Head too.

[dark_angel]

so what's up with this Boy in the animation swf file?

is he the Prey?

[jolerwolf]

I think that's a woman.

[Claws]

I'm not sure whether you guys noticed this, since many people tend to check the source right away with those teaser sites, but there is even a clue about it at the bottom right of the site.

I wonder what the other stuff could mean, like that message about the smallest monkey in the phillipines...

[KaiserSoze]

Claws said:
I'm not sure whether you guys noticed this, since many people tend to check the source right away with those teaser sites, but there is even a clue about it at the bottom right of the site.

I wonder what the other stuff could mean, like that message about the smallest monkey in the phillipines...

i'm currently looking at the columns with random words.

the left side i think you have to pick two that match up leaving the odd word out.

dirtbox
cats
friends
enemies
spheres-odd one out

the hidden
the found
the lost
the indigenous
wildebeasts-odd one out

elhuit
inuit
celibate
levitate
keeper-odd one out

hmm

[Claws]

And the columns on the right? If you try to maybe match the words with the odd one out from the left column?

Animals
Monsters
The Hidden (Spheres)?
Grandfather
Shaved Heads

Goon
Jenny
Schlmo
Bergmanator (wild beast)?
Bassmaster

Reservation
Talon (Keeper)?
Sissy
Maya
Birthday Cakes

I dunno... I'm too old for this crap!

[Duoae]

Well, so far Talequah is spelt wrong. The actual place name is Tahlequah. It comes from the phrase

Tah-le-ya-quah, meaning two is enough to decide.

or "two are enough" and is cherokee in origin.

[EDIT]

Oops, posted in teh wrong thread! My head is going nuts!

[KaiserSoze]

Claws said:
And the columns on the right? If you try to maybe match the words with the odd one out from the left column?

Animals
Monsters
The Hidden (Spheres)?
Grandfather
Shaved Heads

Goon
Jenny
Schlmo
Bergmanator (wild beast)?
Bassmaster

Reservation
Talon (Keeper)?
Sissy
Maya
Birthday Cakes

I dunno... I'm too old for this crap!

rofl!

i'm also curious about the monkey blurb and the joannie loves chachee or whatever the hell his name was.

[Duoae]

Also found (i think) about bergmanator.

Bergmanator seems to be a nickname of someone in texas. I found their website... i don't know if it's a skitting name or something, but it's not a common thing to be saying. Although i don't know exactly what it refers to.

[KaiserSoze]

haha it just occurred to me when you go to the prey.com site, the "portal" shows up with either the kid or icon.

another clever clue that portals are indeed in?

[IHerman]

OMG Birthday Cakes!

[KaiserSoze]

IHerman said:
OMG Birthday Cakes!

as in the anniversary for prey?

[Tedades]

I must say that the binary stuff is pretty ovious when looking at the source of the website, but the website itself didnt look like you even want to view the source...

Real nice fan stuff this is, they should do more!

[FireFly]

Duoae said:
Also found (i think) about bergmanator.

Bergmanator seems to be a nickname of someone in texas. I found their website... i don't know if it's a skitting name or something, but it's not a common thing to be saying. Although i don't know exactly what it refers to.

You can see the website using the Wayback Machine.

It doesn't seem to have anything to do with Prey.

[Duoae]

I think you picked up the wrong website. That's the person who references the other - "bergmanator". She's called Julia or Jules.

Besides, what i picked up from it was that it seems to be a localised Texas {nick}name. I've certainly never heard it before. It may be based on a surname or something. As i said, it seems that 3DR took "local" folklore and "local" customs and put it in.

[Killd a ton]

Rider said:
Hail to 3DR...

btw, I found this digging through the Source the DNF Profile page here at 3DR... bit hard to find though...

0100001101100001011011
10001001110111010000100
0000111011101100001011
01001011101000010000001
1101000110100101101100
01101100001000000110100 
1011101000010011101110
01100100000011001000110
1111011011100110010100
11111100100000010101110 
1100101001000000110001
10110111101110101011011 
0001100100011011100010
01110111010000100000011 
0010101101001011101000
11010000110010101110010
0010111000101110001011
10000011010000101000001 
0100001010011101010110
11100111010001101001011
0110000100000011011100
11011110111011100101110

<font color="#1F1F22">Ofcourse it's a hoax, whattaya expect?</font>

Can't wait till it's done? We couldn't either...

[Rider]

until now...

Claws said:
And the columns on the right? If you try to maybe match the words with the odd one out from the left column?

Animals
Monsters
The Hidden (Spheres)?
Grandfather
Shaved Heads

Goon
Jenny
Schlmo
Bergmanator (wild beast)?
Bassmaster

Reservation
Talon (Keeper)?
Sissy
Maya
Birthday Cakes

I dunno... I'm too old for this crap!

Maybe it's supposed to be a single phrase and not some word-jumble with a few irrelevant words, instead most of the words are useless and only one or two from each is section is needed. My mind can't grasp concepts beyond simple so this is all I could come up with, using just one word from each of the three sections.

"The hidden wildbeasts levitate."

[Gryph]

Hmm...it seems www.prey.com is actually a real Under Construction site now. I guess that teaser was removed.

[Kristian Joensen]

It is still there here.

[Gryph]

Hmm....for a breif second it says that Talequah Communications in the title bar and then goes to this http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpa...ent=netw8744&s

I guess there is something wrong on my end.

[Kristian Joensen]

That doesn't occur here. So it is probaply something at your end.

[Zach]

GryphonKlaw said:
Hmm....for a breif second it says that Talequah Communications in the title bar and then goes to this http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpa...ent=netw8744&s

I guess there is something wrong on my end.

It does that to me when I have Run ActiveX controls and plugiins disabled. But if it's enabled, it works correctly.

(Explanation and rant: I keep this disabled to turn off Flash, which is really annoying with those stupid advertisements that cover up whatever web page you're reading...)

[Duoae]

That's funny, because it looks more like this page than the other one....

[Gryph]

Alright, it works fine at home. That problem happened when I was accessing it from the school library.

[Giblet]

I think it's safe to assume portals play a big part. What with the huge portal that shows up, and the fact that the website is parodying a "portal" website with all the crazy links.

[tony]

It looks like the message has changed. I checked the index.html file for any hidden things, since i noticed it redirected you to coming-soon.html. I thought no one would bother to check it. I translated it and it reads:

"Evil draws near. From beyond the veil of the world you understand. You cannot turn your back on your heritage any longer. From it you will draw strength. All your life you have rejected the ways of your ancestors. The beliefs of your people. But now you must embrace them, if you are to survive."

I thought it was something we all overlooked, but all three read the same. (comingsoon.html, coming-soon.html and index.html)

[tony]

GryphonKlaw said:
Hmm...it seems www.prey.com is actually a real Under Construction site now. I guess that teaser was removed.

The index.html file that redirects you to the flash page falls back to: http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpa...ent=netw8744&s if you dont have flash installed.

 if(is_Flash6up){
    var ran_unrounded=Math.random()*4;
    var ran_number=Math.round(ran_unrounded);
    
    if(ran_number<2){
        location.href='comingsoon.html';
    }
    else{
        location.href='coming-soon.html';
    }
}
else{
    location.href='http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpark/domainpark.cgi?client=netw8744&s';
}

[Krid]

Here's the binary, repaired and formatted.

01000011 01100001 01101110 00100111 01110100
00100000 01110111 01100001 01101001 01110100
00100000 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101100
00100000 01101001 01110100 00100111 01110011
00100000 01100100 01101111 01101110 01100101
00111111 00100000 01010111 01100101 00100000
01100011 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100100
01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01100101
01101001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010
00101110 00101110 00101110 00001101 00001010
00001010 00001010 01110101 01101110 01110100
01101001 01101100 00100000 01101110 01101111
01110111 00101110

This decodes into:

Can't wait till it's done? We couldn't either...


until now.

Just for the sake of completeness, and to sooth my OCD.