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VIDEO GAME

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Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:

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This game presents a stickman hero with a very straightforward top-down map: a corridor attached to three rooms, each containing a wise man, and a fourth room, secured behind three locks, containing a princess. So far, so good: go to the wise men, get their keys, free the princess. But wait, there's a catch: bringing to mind Tower of Heaven, as the game progresses and the player talks to first one elder and then the next, constraints begin being imposed on his movements. Sure, the wise man will give you his key, but only if you promise not to retrace your steps.

Go back on your word and none of the other sages will give you their keys. But the goal is impossible to reach without going back on your word, so it's critical to devise a path allowing every key to be truthfully gained before making your good name mud and going for the goal -- at which point the princess also has a promise she wants you to make.

The game, almost a prototype, contains only one level of this puzzle. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Browser (Flash)

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