Waste your employer's time

June 8, 2007 7:37 AM

Submachine (Future Loop Foundation) You are trapped in your cube a padded cell, and you need to escape. Another fine Submachine game from Mateusz Skutnik. You can probably escape well before lunch and still have time to push some of that paper out of your cell cube. (Flash Friday)
posted by caddis (11 comments total)

Does anybody else find these games represent secret fantasies? I mean, I'd love to be stuck in a padded room with an open reel tape recorder. At least I'd get some peace and quiet. And if I do decide to play music, the padded cell offers excellent noise insulation. Sign me up!
posted by humblepigeon at 7:43 AM on June 8, 2007

"You are trapped in your cube a padded cell, and you need to escape."

At first glance, I thought this was going to be about Paris Hilton.
posted by eye of newt at 8:10 AM on June 8, 2007

OK, I got bored and cheated. I don't think it's too much of a spoiler to say that if you're stuck you probably can move somewhere else but missed it because the layout is not very clear - click around the edges and you might find a way you have missed.
posted by teleskiving at 8:20 AM on June 8, 2007

Wait, what? It's over already? I was just getting into it...
posted by Khalad at 8:43 AM on June 8, 2007

And I never even got to use "7902."
posted by Citizen Premier at 8:52 AM on June 8, 2007

"...will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
posted by 517 at 10:23 AM on June 8, 2007

Wow. Way too short. I finished it without even working the 3-digit code box.
posted by Thorzdad at 11:28 AM on June 8, 2007

Yeah, I was wondering what the 3 digit code box was for... I didn't expect to finish it so soon.
posted by knapah at 12:00 PM on June 8, 2007

Yeah, it's pretty short. But there are similar games in their Submachine series found here.
posted by Green With You at 5:41 PM on June 8, 2007

Yeah, this one was pretty short. Some of the other ones seem interesting though. If only slightly longer and more challenging.
posted by donkeymon at 5:47 PM on June 8, 2007

Short, yes, but you were at work when it was posted, no?
posted by caddis at 8:09 PM on June 8, 2007