Let's write a game!
A vast majority of video games involve immersive graphics. We don't have the time or space to build a 3D world with artificial intelligence (AI)-controlled moving objects and lots of interactivity, but we can build a small "escape" game. The idea behind games of this genre is that you're stuck in a room that is pictured on the screen and you click on various objects to find clues to get out of the room.
As I looked through some old stock images that might be fun to implement, I came across one of a small room with a couple of computer racks, an old phone on the wall, and an engineer at a computer desk with his back to us. There's also a clipboard on the table, a perfect place to hold clues about how to set controls on one of the server racks. One of my favorite science-fiction movies is The Matrix, where the characters in the movie use old land phones to transfer their digital conscious between real and virtual worlds, so this will...
