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Architect’s Actualised Adventure Game
Written by Jim Rossignol on June 16, 2008 at 2:21 pm.
This bizarre story shows you what happens when architects attack: they try to create Myst-style adventure games in the real world. Thanks to the deep pockets of the owners of a 5th Avenue apartment in Manhattan, a chap named Eric Clough was able devise an apartment-wide puzzle, complete with original ciphers, a clue book, and various obscure puzzle mechanisms. (SOUND FAMILIAR?)
“furniture and some of those walls conceal secrets — messages, games and treasures — that make up a Rube Goldberg maze of systems and contraptions conceived by a young architectural designer named Eric Clough, whose ideas about space and domestic living derive more from Buckminster Fuller than Peter Marino.”
Or perhaps they derive from John Walker’s nightmares about the return of Cryo.
(Photo: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times. Fair use! Probably.)
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Tom says:
OK, I read Peter Marino as Paper Mario. I’m pulling my ethernet cable out.
See this? You have WiFi.
June 16th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Mooey Poo says:
This sounds like they’re going to rip off oblivion screenshots.
June 16th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Visi says:
@Valkies
Don’t worry, I read it as Paper Mario too.
June 16th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Kast says:
I want a house like that
June 16th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Chipp says:
I read Paper Mario too.
June 16th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Man Raised By Puffins says:
I was thinking about reading it as well, but I heard the characters were rather two-dimensional.
/coat
June 16th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Fede says:
It would be interesting to see the place; the architect could make another and transform it in a museum, I believe lots of people would like to go in there and explore :)
June 16th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Gurrah says:
Wonder how much the whole thing cost, but then again, money doesn’t seem to be an issue.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
internisus says:
I was remarking to a friend the other day about how I can see a market for architects creating secrets and hidden meta-games in this way when you hire them to hack your home, but no one would ever get the unexpected experience of this family.
If I had the capital, I would start a firm that specializes in this. We could call it intertecture or something awful.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Thiefsie says:
how soon til they start charging for the pleasure of going through the riddle yourself while renting?
June 17th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Carda says:
According to an article this morning on IGN UK, J.J. Abrams is going to produce a movie based on this.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
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OK, I read Peter Marino as Paper Mario. I’m pulling my ethernet cable out.
June 16th, 2008 at 2:59 pm