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Fez soundtrack contains hidden data

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Post by drcube »

"The QR code returns a string of dates:

    1955 1958 1960 1961 1967 1969 1971 1977 2003 2005
Which might mean something, or it might just be the birth dates of the development team, I’m really not sure yet."

57 year olds working alongside 7 year olds. Nice to know they don't discriminate based on age.

Re: Fez soundtrack contains hidden data

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Post by Khao »

drcube wrote: post #3

"The QR code returns a string of dates: 1955 1958 1960 1961 1967 1969 1971 1977 2003 2005 Which might mean something, or it might just be the birth dates of the development team, I’m really not sure yet." 57 year olds working alongside 7 year olds. Nice to know they don't discriminate based on age.

I would guess that the >2000 ones are propably birth dates of some of the developer's children

Edit : someone asked this question on stackexchange : http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/63374/what-does-th...

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Post by Impossible »

Khao wrote: post #4
drcube wrote: post #3

"The QR code returns a string of dates: 1955 1958 1960 1961 1967 1969 1971 1977 2003 2005 Which might mean something, or it might just be the birth dates of the development team, I’m really not sure yet." 57 year olds working alongside 7 year olds. Nice to know they don't discriminate based on age.

I would guess that the >2000 ones are propably birth dates of some of the developer's children Edit : someone asked this question on stackexchange : http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/63374/what-does-th...

As far as I know the only developer on the core team with a kid is Adam Saltsman, and his kid was born in 2011. I think all of the team members are young enough that they would have been teen parents (12-16) if they had kids born in 2003 or 2005 :).

Re: Fez soundtrack contains hidden data

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Post by mgunes »

It's become somewhat of a tradition among electronic musicians to embed graphics into spectrograms, the most widely known example being Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker" (1999). A few examples, including that one:

http://www.bastwood.com/?page_id=10

There must be precursors of the practice before the advent of computer music, or even digital/electronic music production altogether, but I can't recall any; I'd love to be pointed to them.

Re: Fez soundtrack contains hidden data

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Post by daeken »

mgunes wrote: post #8

It's become somewhat of a tradition among electronic musicians to embed graphics into spectrograms, the most widely known example being Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker" (1999). A few examples, including that one: http://www.bastwood.com/?page_id=10 There must be precursors of the practice before the advent of computer music, or even digital/electronic music production altogether, but I can't recall any; I'd love to be poi…

It's not quite on the level of embedding images in a spectrogram, but buried deep in Amarok by Mike Oldfield is morse code for "FUCK OFF RB", a reference to Richard Branson, owner of his label, Virgin Records.
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