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Dharma Initiative Recruiting Project
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The Dharma Initiative Recruiting Project, also simply known as "the Project", was the third Lost alternate reality game taking place between Season 4 and 5 of Lost. It concerned an attempt by an unknown source to revive the DHARMA Initiative. The game was developed by the Lost writers[source needed], in conjunction with Australian marketing agency Hoodlum (who were also behind the Find 815 game). The game began on May 29, 2008, when an advertisement for Octagon Global Recruiting aired during "There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3", and finished on November 18, 2008, when the assessment dossiers were released.
The game involved participants applying to join the new Dharma Initiative at Comic Con 2008 and the website DharmaWantsYou.com, where participants took part in various tests. At the conclusion of the game, each participant received a Volunteer Assessment Dossier which contained their results and allotted job. However, due to financial issues the Dharma Initiative was canceled. As a replacement, the Dharma Special Access website was opened as an exclusive to game participants.
The canonicity of the game's events is unknown, as no official sources have discussed the game in any depth.
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Beginning
On May 29, 2008, at the end of the last commercial break of "There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3" an advertisement for Octagon Global Recruiting aired. At approximately the same time, octagonglobalrecruting.com opened. Both the ad and the website announced that a recruiting session in San Diego would be held from July 24-27, 2008, the same time and venue as Comic Con.
Clues
The video
The following video was shown at Comic-Con, and later "surfaced" on YouTube, of a fan being taken to the Dharma booth at Comic Con, secretly taping what he saw and running off just in time to show everyone at the Lost panel.
Reception
The Project was negatively received by the Lost fan community. Commonly disliked elements were the long time between activities [1] [2] (with some sites creating their own games to pass the time [3]), technical issues [4], a lack of storyline [5], the uninteresting and simplistic nature [6] [7], and the sudden and out-of-tone ending [8].
Revelations about Lost
- The Asian man in the orientation films' real name is discovered for the first time: Pierre Chang.
- Chang was killed in the Purge.
- Chang had some sort of contact with the present, as he knew of several world events from the 21st Century.
Trivia
- The new reconstitution of the DHARMA Initiative does not use the word Dharma as a capitalized acronym. This could simply be an oversight by the game's writers, or could be indicative that the project was no longer focusing on "heuristics and research on material applications", keeping the name Dharma for sentimental sake.
- The release form's arrangement of the trigrams in the new Dharma logo coincide with the arrangement of the classic logo. All other representations of this logo (Comic-Con, DharmaWantsYou.com) have had the arrangement rotated one quarter-turn clockwise.
- The official title for the game failed to catch on with fans, with most referring to it as "Dharma Wants You" or simply the abbreviations "OGR" or "DWY".
- According to Carlton Cuse in the first Dharmaspecialaccess.com video, Dharmawantsyou.com had approximately 147 000 accounts.
Remaining questions
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- For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Dharma Initiative Recruiting Project/Theories
- Who was running the Dharma Initiative, and are they still connected to the Hanso Foundation?
- Who was the baby crying in the background of the Dharma booth video?
- Who was the man filming, and then arguing that the video won't work? Why doesn't he know how to turn the camera off?
- Who was RuckusGuy?
- Why was Dan Bronson suspicious of the new Dharma Initiative?
External links
In-game websites
Fan websites
- The Project on DarkUFO
- The Project on DocArzt
- The Project forum on Lostpedia Forums
- The Project on The ODI
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| Websites | Octagon Global Recruiting • Dharma Wants You • Dharma Special Access | |||
| See also: Dharma Initiative Recruiting Project clues | ||||
