This game was originally going to be an entry in Emily Short's
Walkthrough Competition, but I didn't quite get it finished in
time. Rather than let all the effort go to waste, I decided to enter
it in the 2001 annual competition instead.
Details of the WalkthroughComp can be found here:
http://emshort.home.mindspring.com/walkthrough.htm
Being a WalkthroughComp game, it is meant to be played in conjunction
with the walkthrough. Some of the puzzle solutions would be almost
impossible to guess without it. I make no apology for that. The game
Emily was seeking was presumably tough enough to need a walkthrough --
so I made it that way!
However, if you just stick to the walkthrough, you'll miss a lot of
the background and reasons for things going on. So, for maximum
enjoyment, I recommend that you treat it like an ordinary game at
first, looking around and trying all sorts of things at each new
location; then, when you're ready to move on, consult the walkthrough.
I hope you have as much fun playing this as I did writing it!
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand
[email protected]