The Ludicorp Mystery

Map 1: Ground Level plus Tower

Tower Control
Room

u↑↓d

Tower
Lobby

—

Tower
Door

Top Of The
Shelves

u↑↓d

The Base Of
Wintermute's
Tower

Kitchen

—

Meeting
Area

—

Copier
Room

—

Stationary
Cupboard

Vault
Door

—

Cloak
room

Up The
Paper
Tree

←
→

Garden
(North)

—

Garden
(East)

Office

North-
South
Corridoor

Stairwell
(Ground
Floor) ▲

→
←

up to
First
Floor

Garden
(South)

—

Garden
Shed

Office

—

Office

Long
Corridor,
West End

—

Long Corridor,
Middle

—

Long
Corridor,
Middle

—

Long Corridor,
Middle

—

Long
Corridor,
East End

Store-
room

Entrance
Lobby

Security
Control
Room

xxx

Delivery
Bay

Main
Entrance

Bike
Shed

—

West Of
Office

—

Front Of
The Office

—

East Of
Office

—

Damp
Corner

—

The Delivery
Bay Gateway

—

The Main
Carpark

Some
Bushes

Storage
Shed Door

—

Storage
Shed

Corner
Of The
Carpark

Maintanence
Stairwell
(Top)

Abandoned
Well

in↓↑out

d↓↑u

Car

Mainanence
Stairwell
(Bottom)

Generator
Room

Bottom
Of The
Well

Walkthrough

Front Of The Office

Okay, here's the plan for the first part: Go everywhere you can reach outside; you get a point for every location visited. Pick up everything that's not nailed down; there's no inventory limit. Turn on the electricity for the delivery bay gate so you can get inside the building.

>verbose. x building. s. se.

Corner Of The Carpark

>x car. open it. in.

Car

>x car. smell it. x gun. take it.

>out. nw. n. e. e. s. e.

Storage Shed

You only need the ladder, but it doesn't hurt to just take them all. I have no idea what the story is with the dragon statue; I assume it's an in-joke.

>x ladder. x pots. x wire. x statue. take all.

>w. s.

Abandoned Well

>x well. x footprints. x plants. d.

Bottom Of The Well

>x water. touch it. take it. x fuse. take it.

>u. n. n. w.

East Of Office

>x bushes. s. s. d. ne.

Generator Room

>x label. x generator. put fuse in generator.

>sw. u. n. w. n.

Main Entrance

You earn a point for every location you visit, so try to visit every location, even if there's nothing of importance there.

>x door. open it. s. w. w. e. e. s. w.

The Delivery Bay Gateway

>x gate. x panel. x button. x grill. push button. w. n.

Storeroom

The boxes themselves aren't important, but we'll need to come back here for the clingfilm later.

>x boxes. x clingfilm. n.

Long Corridor, West End

For the ground floor, we'll tour every location, going roughly clockwise through the building. The important things to pick up on the way are the key from the garden shed, the paper from the copier, the knife from the security room, the cup from the lobby, then back to the storeroom for the clingfilm.

>n. n.

Vault Door

>x keypad. e. n.

Kitchen

The cupboards are locked; you can't ever open them.

>x cupboard. open cupboard. x counter. e.

Meeting Area

Every water cooler in the game is identical and empty.

>x cooler. s.

Garden (North Side)

There's nothing at the top of the paper tree; just a point for visiting the location, as usual.

>x trees. x flowers. x paper. u. d. e. s.

Garden Shed

>x key. take it. w.

Garden (South Side)

This is the only source of drinkable water in the game.

>x fountain. x water. n. n. e.

Copier Room

>x copier. x tray. open tray. take paper. x paper. e.

Stationary Cupboard

>x shelves. u.

Top Of The Shelves

>x pen. take it. d. s.

Office

There are several Office locations in the game which are all pretty much identical and boring.

>x desks. x chairs. x computers. s. w. s. e. s.

Security Control Room

>x cupboard. unlock it with key. open it. x knife. take it. n. w. w. s.

Entrance Lobby

Oddly, you cannot unlock the front doors from the inside either. Although you can drink the coffee, I'm going to ask you not to because we need some liquid for a puzzle later. If you must drink the coffee, refill the cup with water from the garden fountain.

>x desk. x cup. take it. x coffee. n. w. w. s.

Storeroom

>cut clingfilm with knife. x patch. x knife. n. e. n. u.

Map 2: First Floor

Tower		Office	—	Office	—	Chocolate Room	—	Card Room
		\|						\|
Bath- room	—	Office						Board Room
\|
Gang- way
\|								\|
Janitors Cup- board		Stairwell (First ▲ Floor) ▼				Printing Room	—	Waiting Room
		\|						\|
		Landing	—	Project Space	—	Hallway	—	Corner Office
				\|
				Crawl Space

Stairwell (First Floor)

For the first floor, we have to circle around counter-clockwise. Stupid for the floor not to be a complete loop.

>s.

Landing

If you were wondering what the gun is for, I think it's merely to test the claim that the window glass is bulletproof.

>x window. x carpark. shoot window. e.

Project Space

I'm gonna start ignoring chairs and windows and tables for the rest of the walkthrough.

>x whiteboard. x marker. take it. write on board with marker. s.

Crawl Space

>x toner. take it. n. e. e. n. n.

Board Room

Up until now, the PC might as well be made of balsa wood for all the emotion and personality he exhibits. But we finally get a reaction from the PC: he drools at the sight of a plasma screen.

>x screen. n.

Card Room

We'll need to return to this machine later.

>x machine. w.

Chocolate Room

The PC is "impressed" by Cadbury chocolate? Seriously?

And, oh yeah, the author programmed the chocolate bars as fifty identical items. You have no game need for any of the chocolate, but you may take them all, eat them all one at a time. You will not get sick.

>x bar. take bar. eat bar. w. w. s. w.

Bathroom

Going through the bathroom is the only way to reach the rest of the rooms on this floor. Bad enough that the meeting rooms are throughspaces, but the bathroom?

>x cubicles. s.

Gangway

Oh yes, the narrow corridor. What a fiendish puzzle. Not.

>drop all. s.

Janitors Cupboard

>x dispenser. push button. x blank card. n.

Gangway

>take all. n. e. n. e. e. e. s. s. w.

Printing Room

>x printer.

>x slot. open it. put toner in slot. close slot.

>x tray. open it. put sheet in slot. close tray.

>x light. x button. push it. x sheet. (The combo is always 1739.)

This is combo to the vault door. We might as well return there and see what we can see.

>e. s. w. w. w. n. d. s. w. n. n.

Vault Door

>x keypad. push button 1. push button 7.

>push button 3. push button 9. push button enter. n.

The Base Of Wintermute's Tower

Assuming you have the ladder from the Storage Shed, you will automatically drop it here; it will no longer be takeable.

>u. w. u.

game_engine->start();
cat_robot->desist();
core->debug();

Tower Control Room

Foolishly, you're not allowed to take any of the papers. You can't open the door yet.

>x door. x papers.

Let's head back and up to the second floor.

>d. e. d. s. s. s. e. n. u. u.

Map 3: Second Floor

Tower		Robot Chamber	—	Airlock	—	Server Room B	—	Server Room A
		\|						\|
Waste Disposal		Store Room						Eric Control Centre
\|								\|
Stock Room		Stairwell (Second ▲ Floor) ▼						Maintain- ance Bay
\|		\|						\|
South West Corner	—	Second Floor Lobby	—	Games Room	—	Meeting Room	—	Ante Room
				\|
				Balcony

Stairwell (Second Floor)

>s. w.

South West Corner

The "city" is the only in-game object that directly informs us that we're in Canada. The real Ludicorp offices are in Vancouver, BC.

>x city. n. n.

Waste Disposal

CAUTION: Putting anything into the machine destroys the inserted object.

>s. s. e. e.

Games Room

>x arcade. play it. x pool. play it. s.

Balcony

CAUTION: Going down is fatal.

>n. e. e. n.

Maintainance Bay

>x duct. x pipe. put patch on pipe. n.

Eric Control Centre

This seems to be an in-joke of some sort.

>x console. n.

Server Room A

Ugh. More PC drool.

>x servers. w.

Server Room B

>w. x door. open door. w.

Airlock

You don't have the card for this slot—yet. Let's head for the roof.

>x slot. e. e. s. s. s. w. w. w. n. u.

Map 4: Roof

		Roof (North)
	/		\
Roof (West)	—	Stairwell (Roof) ▼		Roof (East)
	\		/
		Roof (South)

Roof (Stairwell)

>w. ne. se.

Roof (East)

If you drank the coffee, you can fill the cup with water from the garden fountain and pour the water in the drain instead. The security card can't be called a "card" because of possible conflicts with the punch card, so, it's a "pass" instead. Don't forget to circle around the roof to make sure you visit all the locations.

>x drain. pour coffee in drain. x pass.

Off to the airlock...

>sw. nw. e. d. s. e. e. e. n. n. n. w. w.

Airlock

>close outer door. put pass in slot. w.

Robot Chamber

>x robot. x plaque.

Time to punch that card; race you to the Card Room, northeast corner of first floor.

>e. put pass in slot. open outer door. e. e. e. s. s. s. w. w. w. n. d.

>s. e. e. e. n. n. n.

Card Room

Don't bother trying the other two code samples you saw on the tower papers. The robot only recognizes the middle code line. I'm guessing that if you bungle punching the card, you'll have to destroy it in the waste disposal machine, then get another card from the card dispenser, but I haven't bothered to try that.

>x machine. punch cat_robot->desist(); on blank card.

>s. s. s. w. w. w. n. u.

>s. e. e. e. n. n. n. w. w. close outer. put pass in slot. w.

Robot Chamber

>put card in slot. s.

Store Room

It's all anti-climactic from here on. Grab the keys, run back to the tower, and unlock that final door.

>x keys. take keys. n. e. put pass in slot. open outer. e. e. s. s. s. w. w. w. n. d. d.

>w. n. n. n. u. w. u.

Tower Control Room

>unlock door with keys. (win!)

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