Both the BAT file and the EXE file don't seem to work for me - After opening them, the game window will shop up for about half a second and then crash (?). I am using the Windows version (I have Windows XP).

Worked fine here (Windows too). I gave up on the analysis part. I actually already had to cheat to get the password for the diary (is it in the game somewhere too? directly I mean, not the little hint you have there)

itamarcu: if you could post the errorlog.log file that should be created when it fails to launch that would be immensely helpful.

Endurion: Yes the password can be found just by using that computer (though it kind of assumes a little UNIX / coding experience). Thanks for giving it a go!

Nice ideas, it was a little bit hard for me too but I assume you can take that idea to do a game that would be accessible to (almost) anyone.

Was quite amusing and loved the voice over track!
Had no issues with it. Got lost a bit sometimes though.
Especially with the commands on computer, i got ls and cd but had issues opening files? echoing? printing? editing? not sure what it was for that

Couldn't run it

Certainly one of the nerdiest games that I've ever played. That in itself isn't a bad thing, but it definitely limits the game's playing demographic, and even makes it potentially really frustrating. But I assume that you already realize this.

Personally, I enjoyed this game; it was definitely something different.

However, I couldn't guess the diary password so I, like Endurion, had to look in the game files to find it.

I managed to legitimately complete the rest of the game; the way to log into the next computer was pretty hilarious.

I wrote a little program (like you suggested) to make doing the signal math considerably less painful. I don't think I've ever done that for a video game before...

A question, though: is there an error on the whiteboard that tells you how to read the signal? In the example, s and c(t) are both negative, yet s / c(t) is also negative? That threw me off a bit.

Also, voice acting! Nice!

Woohoo, I'm super impressed that you decoded the signal! Especially with the silly mistake on the whiteboard (I can't believe I missed that, the value of s should be positive, good catch!).

It certainly wasn't my intention to be frustrating. My original plan had been for the lab computer to be some kind of guided program to help decode the signal (with a cool low-res style graph), but I ran out of time.

For the first computer I forgot to put the commands you could run into /bin to give a hint, so that's ended up harder than I'd planned too :( If anyone reads this far, they are: cat, cd, pwd, ls, strings and file. I think next time I'll still make a ridiculous niche game about some geeky topic, but I'll make sure I put some kind of hinting system in to prevent actively annoying people.

Thanks for the feedback!

Those plans sounded cool! I'll be sure to check out what you make next time. I really appreciate super niche games that have a lot of thought put into them.

Oh, and I forgot to ask: what exactly was "6209" in the first computer, when you use the ls command?

Just love this game, does that say anything about me? The voice was really well done and the "puzzles" are really great.
Although I'm stuck after decoding the message, I don't know what to do with it. Help?

I love games like this. Remind me of those early Interplay games like Wasteland and Fountain of Dreams. Excellent Job!

Cool concept, but I really couldn't get very far into it..

Nice! Good puzzles and I thought your voice acting was great. I really like the idea of making the player solve problems with a calculator/computer, and we're just about the best audience for that.

Well, it got me to look up linux commands, so I guess I've learned something :P Interesting game, but too hard for me.