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A game with complex, hidden depths and impressive programming tricks, June 26, 2019The biggest achievement of this game is an impeccable rope. Emily Short once described the challenges of programming rope:
"This is one of those things that has received so much attention that it almost seems pointless to recount the variety of the challenges associated therewith. First of all, a rope has two ends, so you have to remember the state of each (and disambiguate between the player's references to them, of course.) Then there's marking what the rope can be tied to; the possibility of cutting the rope in the middle, making multiple ropes of new lengths; the problem of using the rope as a fuse, of tying it to something in one room and then carrying the other end, of tying the ends together, etc., etc., etc. Ultimately I think the very trickiest part of all this is the disambiguation problem, ie, figuring out exactly what the player means when he says >TIE ROPE TO X (which end? Do we untie something that's already tied, if both ends are in use?) But it's all pretty grotesque, frankly."
All of this is handled in this game except for fire.
Basically, you wake up for an exam in a simulated world, but everything is strange. You have to enter a robot's body and do some odd IP-address voodoo to fix everything.
This involves finding cables, which you can combine or cut, and which trail from room to room.
There is a secret path (kicked off by (Spoiler - click to show)looking at yourself). Fun game!
I just felt a bit of an emotional barrier between me and the game, which makes sense, as you are a robot.