Amazing that a game this short could have an amusing list.

This is-- despite the coding-- really a one-room, one-puzzle game. (Sorry, but I insist on thinking of my PC as being SOMEWHERE.) As one-puzzle games go, it's a lot better than last year's peculiar Koan, and somewhat less frustrating than Spotlight from a few years ago. I suppose there tends to be one of these in every comp, and it makes a nice sort of palate cleanser between longer games.

As far as the puzzle goes, I knew instantly what I had to do, but took a little while to do it because interaction with the flashlight did not work quite the way I expected. I imagine that the main concept is one you either get right away or don't get at all (though if you sat through any school physics demonstrations, it should look familiar).

No Room Awards

22^nd place on the 2003 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (9th Edition).