Wow. Okay, so I'm really very impressed with the game. It was made by some students (to see whether they could do it with some programming language or something like that). The graphics limitations turned out to be limitations of whatever it was that they were using.

But in terms of gameplay... It really is pretty darned terrific. I keep finding more to it... I don't think that the forums are active anymore but you can get the general gist of other things (such as trying to find set up and then use the portals to travel between distant locations and finding the elemental orbs). I found the green one woo hoo!

There are bridge points as well (where which choice you make opens up a different plot structure). But then they converge again... And then bridge again... So you can play the game over and over to try and see all there is to see.

Did anyone play the Heroes RPG? I was terribly addicted to one of them for a while. I think it was the 7th one. Later ones were much better with respect to graphics and had a number of nice features (such as a more detailed map that told you what the building was once you had been to it and your journal updated with the boat schedule and the like so you don't have to take such extensive notes) but they simply weren't as addictive with respect to gameplay and the map wasn't as extensive because I guess they put most of the work into the graphics.

But this one is terribly addictive... Though I do feel a little nauseous when I spend too many hours running across the countryside searching for the damned portals... Sigh... I've made a pact with myself that I shall work for 5 hours today and as a reward I'm allowed to play the game tonight!

:-)