A mini, puzzle orientated game hosted on a raspberry pi or similar small device.

It could act as an open wifi access point, maybe running some sort of captive portal?

Make it text based, with a green screen terminal interface - accessing any website would redirect you to the opening page of the game - green screen themed. Hinting at retro nature and hopefully pointing people towards possibilities like Telnet/Gopher etc.

Possible Themes:

• Murder mystery
• Educational
• Retro Futuristic
  • Early internet protocols (Gopher, etc) but evolved to modern usage
• Time travel - sent form the future but misjudged current technology?
• ???

It could have a twitter (or other social network) feed:

• Progress updates (e.g. “gilesp has joined the game”, “johnsmith has discovered a clue”)
• (Alternatively?) the home screen could display a status feed

Part of the game could be a gopher server running on the host

• Clues to gopher presence:
  • A reference to the gopher RFC could act as an early clue
  • The host/port could be enciphered somehow
  • (partial) Code for gopher client on a page on captive portal
    • Also discussion of (modern) gopher clients
• Gopher server could contain content for story section and/or clues to next section

Puzzles

• Baudot - telegraph code?

| H | | * | * | * | | | E | | | | * | | | L | * | * | * | * | | | L | * | * | * | * | | | 0 | | | * | * | * | | | Left | Hand | Right | Hand | |