ABSTRACT

You find yourself marooned on an apparently deserted tropical island. You have to solve a series of puzzling mysteries in order not only to survive but to reveal the story behind the island itself, the meanings hidden beneath its surface (literally, it later turns out). Along the way you encounter a series of unexplained phenomena: voices in the trees, cryptic documents, films and videos left behind by previous inhabitants, what seem to be invisible monsters in the jungle and powerful anomalies of nature everywhere. You have to use the available tools you find around you to overcome obstacles and solve whatever puzzles you encounter. At one point, for example, you use salvaged dynamite to blow open a locked hatch you discovered earlier in the jungle, in order to go down the hatch and see what’s in it, look for further clues, further meanings. You listen to a cryptic radio signal and try to decipher the series of numbers being broadcast. Levers and buttons and caves and tunnels abound. The process seems open-ended if not never-ending, but every so often you solve an important mystery and reach a new level. Then, you continue to explore the island world in order to find out where you are now, what to do next, and who or what is behind it all-what it all means.