{"id":7875,"date":"2018-09-11T12:51:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T02:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=7875"},"modified":"2018-09-11T13:07:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T03:07:42","slug":"the-spider-man-in-game-marriage-proposal-a-tragedy-in-three-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/the-spider-man-in-game-marriage-proposal-a-tragedy-in-three-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spider-Man in-game marriage proposal: A tragedy in three parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"color: #404040;\">Part 1:<\/strong><span style=\"color: #404040;\"><br \/>\nTyler &#8220;@topnotch1210&#8221; Schultz tweets Spider-Man developers Insomniac Games in April of this year about the possibility of adding a marriage proposal into their upcoming game.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvanFilarca?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EvanFilarca<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/spideysquad?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#spideysquad<\/a> I need your help. This may be selfish, but I\u2019m ready to propose to my girlfriend and want to do it in a big way. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/insomniacgames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@insomniacgames<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bryanintihar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bryanintihar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillRosemann?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BillRosemann<\/a> is there anyway you can put an Easter egg of \u201cMadison, will you marry me?\u201d Anywhere in the game?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tyler (@topnotch1210) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/topnotch1210\/status\/994743495498895360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Part 2:<\/strong><br \/>\nInsomniac, being the legends that they are, do so! Adding the proposal to Tyler&#8217;s five year plus girlfriend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/insomniacgames\/status\/994746940716822529\">after confirming with him<\/a> that he&#8217;s happy to wait another five months until September.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/27125317\/spider_man_screen_shot_8_29_18__5.42_pm_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Part 3:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe game releases and Tyler creates a now removed Youtube video detailing the tragedy of the proposal and that his now ex-girlfriend has run off with his brother.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler seems to have taken the whole thing in his stride though and has thanked Insomniac for doing it in the first place and let everyone know he&#8217;s enjoying the game.<\/p>\n<p>Insomniac have since come back and asked if he&#8217;d like the sign changed to anything else and have it changed in an upcoming patch.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>UPDATED &#8211; <em>The other side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tyler&#8217;s ex, Madison Gamble, whom he claims <em>&#8220;go with [his] brother&#8221;,<\/em> has told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpress.com\/arts\/the-spider-man-proposal-easter-egg-has-a-darker-side-10842784\">her side of the story to a local paper<\/a>. Madison provides a concise account of the relationship and the reasons for it coming to an end. She also provides context around the half-brother, whom she&#8217;s now become close to saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As far as his half-brother goes, Tyler had asked him to check in on me and ask me how I was doing after I broke up with him, so of course we got close. And our relationship just built from there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part 1: Tyler &#8220;@topnotch1210&#8221; Schultz tweets Spider-Man developers Insomniac Games in April of this year about the possibility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[193],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7875"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7885,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions\/7885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}