MOTAS
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The Mystery Of Time And Space (commonly known as MOTAS) is a popular online graphic adventure game created by Jan Albartus (LOGAN). The game was produced using Adobe Flash.
In MOTAS, the adventurer has to solve puzzles and riddles to unlock the doors to the mystery of time and space.
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[edit] Features
- Online graphic adventure game
- Point-and-click game
- 19 levels
- Moderated game chat rooms
- Multiple languages available
[edit] History
MOTAS was created in November 2001. At that time MOTAS was hosted on a free webserver and the game featured only one room (level) at that time. In February 2002 a counter was added. At that time, the game only had the level plus a guestbook/end level. As of January 2007, MOTAS has 19 levels plus the guestbook/end level. At several points, the game became so popular that bandwidth became a problem. The game was moved to another web host, ending the panic in many forums.
[edit] Gameplay
The player clicks on objects in the rooms to find items. For example, in the first room, the player is given a key under the pillow. The key is then used to open the cupboard, not the door. The cupboard yields a screwdriver, which can be used to unscrew the painting. The player must often find creative uses for the items found.
[edit] The Levels
- Level 1 takes place in a locked bedroom where you wake up without any memory.
- Level 2 takes place in two connected rooms with a computer and keycode to open the next door.
- Level 3 takes place in two connected rooms with a mechanism under a bridge and a rat that follows a line. This level also contains a poster with a link to a website that has hints in case it's too difficult for you.
- Level 4 takes place in three connected rooms with a fireplace, a laser-cutting machine and a thermostat. The narration for this room points out that there are no windows in these rooms- a point that is explained later.
- Level 5 take place in two connected rooms, one of which contains a movable cabinet and box which can obscure a door, a wall panel or both, but not neither. The other room contains a panel featuring a series of odd-one-out puzzles.
- Level 6 takes place in four connected rooms on two floors. The basement is accessible through a puzzle. This level contains a defiance of the laws of physics with two painting of spheres that swap picture frames.
- Level 7, the largest level in the game, is made up of 13 connected rooms. The player must find three wheels to activate the teleportation machine at the end. In this level, it is implied that the player is an escaped clone.
- Level 8 is a Christmas-themed series of rooms with the highlight being a room-sized chess board. In the end of this level, the player is followed by a figure in a space suit, the first example of some kind of plot. (In level 17, it is discovered that the figure in the space suit is yourself, having travelled back in time to locate a UFO component.)
- Level 9 is situated in a space station (as a crack in the main hallway opens directly to outer space). The puzzles include a computer and a series of doors.
- Level 10 features a radial slide puzzle.
- Level 11 involves a game of pool. The bookshelves contain notes referring to a cloning experiment.
- Level 12 takes place in "Area 51," (on the lower floor and "Area 12" on the upper floor) a series of rooms with two floors. The lower floor contains a long hallway filled with lasers which the player must deactivate.
- Level 13 finally takes the player to the outdoors, where there is a well and a door. To be able to unlock the door, the player must solve a puzzle involving colors and the cardinal directions. This level also contains a (wishing) well.
- Level 14 takes place mainly outdoors, and requires the player to return power to a neighbourhood.
- Level 15 involves finding a method of transportation out of the ruined street.
- Level 16 takes place inside again, and involves an enormous computer.
- Level 17 features UFO repair, a Manipulator of Time and Space (MOTAS) device, and time travel.
- Level 18 requires that the MOTAS device be recharged, allowing the player to once again return to a past room and discover its secrets.
- Level 19 involves tree-planting and further movement through time.
The guestbook level is where one who finishes the game up until the point where there are no more levels may sign the guestbook after solving a final puzzle. The guestbook level is always the level after the "true" last level.
[edit] Related games
MOTAS was the first online adventure game that confronted the user waking up in a strange bedroom, without knowing how he or she got there and a locked door. This setting became known as "escape the room" sub genre of adventure games.
The game inspired the creation of other online (Flash) point-and-click adventure games in this genre that became popular and names in their own right, such as "Crimson Room" by Toshimitsu Takagi, "Milki-W" by Wortel Drie, "Cybee's Adventure" by Nick Damme, "Escape: The Room," and many, many more.
At some point someone posted a ripped preview of level 13 under the title "Windows Escape" as an original game. This version was missing the inventory objects and was an unfinished preview.
[edit] Level Release Dates
- Level 1 was released on 11-?-2001
- Level 2 was released on 2-18-2002
- Level 3 was released on 6-7-2002
- Level 4 was released on 7-6-2002
- Level 5 was released on 8-15-2002
- Level 6 was released on 9-5-2002
- Level 7 was released on 10-5-2002
- Level 8 was released on 7-23-2003
- Level 9 was released on 7-23-2003
- Level 10 was released on 7-23-2003
- Level 11 was released on 7-23-2003
- Level 12 was released on 11-7-2003
- Level 13 was released on 11-?-2004
- Level 14 was released on 12-17-2006
- Level 15 was released on 12-17-2006
- Level 16 was released on 12-17-2006
- Level 17 was released on 12-18-2006
- Level 18 was released on 1-10-2007
- Level 19 was released on 1-13-2007
[edit] Trivia
- MOTAS Deluxe box is an item encountered in the online game Cybee's Quest
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