DemaSked Continues...

It has been a long time since we've heard from WarpPipe on the 'DemaSked'-service for the Nintendo DS. Now WarpPipe threw out some official words and released a new clue...

First of all, WarpPipe has mass-emailed their members, stating that WarpPipe will no longer support that which they started with: the GameCube tunneling software. Instead, the WarpPipe staff felt that in the past year they've moved towards a software technology company, creating a product suite for video game publishers and developers.

The email:

Over the past year, Warp Pipe has slowly transitioned to a software technology company, creating a product suite for video game publishers and developers. As we have made this move forward, we have evaluated the immediate needs of the Warp Pipe community in relation to the long term goals of Warp Pipe Technologies and have come to the conclusion that it is not in our best interest to allocate resources on the GameCube tunneling project.

Although it will remain fully functional, we can no longer provide support to our users. However, we feel that, between our support forums and the GameCube tunneling website, there exist enough resources for the community to aid itself when help is needed.

We would like to thank the thousands of loyal members for all their support and patronage. We look forward to making you all proud to be members of the Warp Pipe community as we strive to change the landscape of online gaming as we know it.

You can access the GameCube tunneling software at the following URL: http://cubeonline.warppipe.com/

Yours Truly, Warp Pipe Staff http://www.warppipe.com/

The development suite mentioned above is indeed the product referred to as 'DemaSked'. According to WarpPipe's renewed company information, their "product suite, code-named "demasked", is currently under development and gives publishers and developers the freedom to deploy a wide array of online features into their games without added infrastructure costs seen in traditional computer networks. Further, a core component of demasked, code-named "ant-farm", gives publishers the opportunity to easily manage and deploy new online-enabled games. Ant-farm also consolidates legacy application servers; allowing them to continuously support today's online-enabled video games for generations to come".

Now in our vision, these new clues could mean two things.

1. GameSpy, which was recently announced to be taking care of the Nintendo DS's online features, outsourced the development of the software to WarpPipe. In the past, WarpPipe has spoken about decisions that were not up to them to make, referring to bigger companies (like GameSpy and Nintendo) taking the lead...
2. WarpPipe is working alone or with another, yet unknown, company and will not be part of the 'official' online solution from Nintendo.

But the story continues. The website WarpPipe registered months ago and which was used to release a few clues in the RSS-feed, now included a new hint. Again, it's a movie. As the new clue reads: Which mask are you?

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Comments

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  Ohh... mysterious...

  Nintendude, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  What's the movie about it wont play on my computer?

  retromatt, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  The movie shows a city, filled with people. However, all the peoples' faces are scrambled... The movie is entirely in black/white, with a few minor details in color: a watch, a (red) traffic light stating "don't walk" and a (green) traffic light for cars. During the movie, a song plays saying "which mask are you? you're wearing a mask". The movie ends with an 'enter'-sign I also noticed a gorilla-like suit at two places...

  Dennis, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  Actually, with this I think they have. We now know that 'DemaSked' is not an end-user service as most (including me) always thought. It's a development suite aimed at developers, offering 'easy' (?) and cheap solutions to incorporate online features in their games. To be honest, I've been thinking about option 1 as I sketched above ever since that GameSpy-story appeared.

  Dennis, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  yea i have, if its true it would be kool.

  NiNe9cEnTs, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  The jadrule-thing looks a bit 'fake' to me. First of all, the 'website' consists of a single picture. Even though it's possible to use a very static website like that, it's also hosted on http://www.frozin.myfxh.com/, which shows similar 'pages', ranging from iPod Shuffle, to gaming websites. Secondly, the news comes out of the blue. Certainly, the devrs behind this had at least put up some bragging somewhere to show that they've done what XLink and many others couldn't. Third point: an extremely silly statement... They mention that the program will work at every hotspot or through 802.11b routers. The problem is that this statement assumes that the router can be controlled through the client-program. This is, as far as I know (and I've seen others at gbadev.org for example make the same claims) impossible. I'd be happy if I'm proven wrong though.

  Dennis, 30-11--0001 at 00:00