A mysterious and priceless treasure, made from 10 troy ounces of pure gold, has been placed on the forest floor in a remote area. Over the course of three weeks, an online map shows a shrinking circle, which starts 500 miles wide, but eventually shrinks, day-by-day, down to a single foot, pinpointing the exact location of the treasure. When people join the hunt, their entry fees add to a growing prize bounty, and they receive exclusive photographic clues delivered to their inbox daily: aerial photographs taken from higher and higher altitudes, revealing more and more landscape around the secret location each day. When the eventual winner finds the treasure, they will discover 12 words etched on the bottom—the recovery phrase for a Bitcoin wallet where the accumulated prize bounty will be sent.
Battle Royale meets Goonies meets GeoPuzzles in a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Joining Project Skydrop costs $20, and half of your entry fee adds to the growing prize bounty. Project Skydrop is live and running now. The treasure is out there in the woods, waiting to be found.
If I hadn’t unsubscribed immediately I would have left the link at the end in there, but also even with my email obscured I might’ve felt too weird about it? Letting someone here do the honours for me would’ve been very funny though.
NB like a decade ago, in his previous game cordial minute, I did win a solid copper medallion with an occult sigil on it, lesser key of Solomon style, and some partial code on the back that was I think meant to be combined with the other like 14 winners’ medallions to point to…some message that never got solved? lol
there were also solid silver and solid gold ones for higher scoring folks but yeah I should dig that thing up
Finding a copper digit in the woods that is the key to hacking into immense incomprehensible wealth is literally the fantasy of a lot of people I’ve met
don’t want to spoil the fun on anyone who enjoyed seeing the new Yakuza game but I did sigh big time in seeing once again figures who previously carried some sort of narrative coherence/weight/matter being paraded around like silly placeholder figures for whatever recycling scheme RGG is up to.
I know it’s been that way for 10 years now but alas ; there’s so much potential in exploring something new-ish (like idk, a Kurohyou-like comeback would be really relevant rn) than reducing their cast to this Nintendo-like exploitation. I guess the series isn’t for me anymore
The Midnight Walk looks very cool and creepy-cute. Ghost of Yōtei looks like more of Tsushima but prettier and would probably necessitate an OLED TV I can’t afford at the moment but the direction they seem to be going for with the soundtrack is neat with the duelling guitar and shamisen.
