Talk:Amber: Journeys Beyond

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Someone deleted the text below. I don't have time to read through it so I am putting it here in case anyone deems it appropriate to reinclude (I didn't revert because the additional changes were useful).

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Inspiration
- 		 - 	The inspiration for the game: ''The idea behind AMBER began back in 1985, on Frank and Susan Wimmer's honeymoon. "We had seen a story on the CBS Morning News about a place often reputed to be 'The Most Haunted House in America,'" Frank recalls. "The house, the Myrtle's Plantation, is in Saint Francisville, Louisiana, just outside of New Orleans. Built in 1796, the house has been the site of 10 murders and one suicide. Conveniently for us, it had recently been converted to a bed and breakfast. We were intrigued by the possibility of actually seeing a ghost -- so much that we actually decided it would be a great place for our honeymoon. As we approached the house in our rental car, it was classic horror film atmosphere: pitch black night with an all-out thunderstorm. Just as we were about to turn into the driveway, lightning flashed, casting light on the 'for sale' sign in the front yard. At that point, we were a little intimidated -- we imagined that the activity might have become too much for the owners, and so it might be too much for us. We actually debated whether we should turn around and leave. But, our curiousity won out -- we decided to give it a go..." 	 - 		 - 	I think when we first drove up, we were still in that mindset that this was a lark," Susan adds. "We were definitely skeptical at first. In fact, we even took along a ouija board with us, because we thought it would be a kick. After a few nights in the house, however, we no longer took it so lightly. Ultimately, we didn't actually see any ghosts, but we did have several unusual experiences that made us much less skeptical. For example, we stayed in a bedroom which had been the nursery when the house was a functioning plantation. Occasionally we could hear a music box playing in the room and we never could find any apparent explanation. We later learned that it was one of the more common sound hauntings reported in the house. That, and several other strange occurences at the house, really opened our minds to the existence of ghosts. It also increased our interest in the paranormal, to the point that we eventually wanted to create AMBER."'' (These comments come from the Hue Forest website, now defunct)

end text - Drrngrvy 03:11, 25 April 2006


 * Hi Drrngrvy, I changed my mind about including it. You see, I actually created this article: Nomanee, 156.34.217.14, PGriffin2, Ruegen, Yumpizza, Table3, Ajb96 are all the same person...me. That's how I added all the references. I removed the Inspiration part because all of that is in the Hue Forest Entertainment archived website (see References) anyway so people can read it at the source. There is also a Making Of article and Developer History at that website. I felt that copying (and citing of course) all of this information from there would make this article very shoddy so I opted to remove what I copied. Nomanee2 03:36, 25 April 2006 (UTC)


 * It's neat to see that some people actually know of this game! Nomanee2 03:37, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:54, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was move. JPG-GR (talk) 23:10, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

AMBER: Journeys Beyond → Amber: Journeys Beyond — Per MOS:TM. — Mika1h (talk) 21:37, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Survey

 * Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with  or  , then sign your comment with  . Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.


 *  Weak oppose Support [see comments below] According to Moby Games, AMBER stands for Astral Mobility By Electromagnetic Resonance. If I'm interpreting the MOS correctly, this makes it an acronym and potentially eligible for all upper case. Admittedly it's not the strongest source in the world, but why would they make it up? Maybe someone can come up with a better reference? --Rogerb67 (talk) 22:50, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose. AMBER is a full-fledged acronym, so we need to capitalize it as one. Xnux   the   Echidna  02:08, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Support. We dont "need" to capitalize it unless its the way independent sources usually write it. Moby Games uses all caps, but Gamespot, IGN, Gamespy, Pibweb, and nearly all other references I can find by Googling prefer the lowercase version. WP:MOSTM is less important here than WP:COMMONNAMES. Tigeron (talk) 18:24, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed on all points (proposer only cited MOS:TM). Changing vote to support per WP:COMMONNAMES. --Rogerb67 (talk) 21:18, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I've played AMBER: Journeys Beyond. AMBER is actually an acronym used in the game and is spelled in all uppercase letters on the box, in the manual, on the title screen, and throughout the game. I created a redirect when I originally typed up this article because the misspelling "Amber" is quite common. I hope this helps. DillPickle50 (talk) 03:16, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Any additional comments:
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Move back to AMBER: Journeys Beyond
Let's open the discussion again, apparently the user who moved the page did not bother to read all the comments. DillPickle51 (talk) 17:11, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Source

 * https://archive.org/details/ComputerGamesMag131/page/n55
 * https://archive.org/stream/MacAddict-003-199611/MacAddict-003-199611-BobKiwi-v1#page/n77/mode/2up
 * Video interview note
 * https://web.archive.org/web/19970703162024/http://www.hueforest.com:80/kudos.htm
 * https://web.archive.org/web/19970703162051/http://www.hueforest.com:80/inspratn.htm
 * https://web.archive.org/web/19970703162045/http://www.hueforest.com:80/makingof.htm
 * https://web.archive.org/web/19970703162057/http://www.hueforest.com:80/develprs.htm
 * https://web.archive.org/web/19970227071154/http://www.ogr.com:80/specials/amber_interview.shtml