,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,//*The idea of the game is from Alfred Hitchcock's movie 'Rear Window'*//
I'm an architect. I like to travel around my architecture projects in the country to control the construction process. An accident caused my foot to get hurt. Now I can only stay at home and my daily life is cooked by my girlfriend. As it is a hot summer, the window is wide open for ventilation, and my daily boring life consists of watching various characters' life in the opposite building on the opposite floor.
I feel boring now, and open the window to [[watch->windows]].The opposite building looks like an apartment from the 1960s. It seems to be worn out now, but the old-fashioned architectural decorations, door and corner lines still remain.
The building has three floors, each with three households and six windows. Since my direction to the building is south, I infer from the arrangement in the room that the left room is livingroom for each household and the right room is bedroom. So the basic elevation for the building arrangement should be like the [[draft->arrangement]]---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//||[[livingroom->3FAL]]|[[bedroom->3FAB]]||[[livingroom->3FBL]]|[[bedroom->3FBB]]||[[livingroom->3FCL]]|[[bedroom->3FCB]]||//
3F---------------A-----------------------------B--------------------------C
//||[[livingroom->2FAL]]|[[bedroom->2FAB]]||[[livingroom->2FBL]]|[[bedroom->2FBB]]||[[livingroom->2FCL]]|[[bedroom->2FCB]]||//
2F---------------A-----------------------------B--------------------------C
//||[[livingroom->1FAL]]|[[bedroom->1FAB]]||[[livingroom->1FBL]]|[[bedroom->1FBB]]||[[livingroom->1FCL]]|[[bedroom->1FCB]]||//
1F---------------A-----------------------------B--------------------------C
//My daily life is so boring that I have figured out the daily life of each household in the opposite building, and occasionally I can observe some anomalies in their life and gain fun until one day late at night [[...->scream]]//This household seems to be vacant, but the strange thing is that one night, I found the lights in the living room in this room lit up. While the [[bedroom->3FAB]] window is always closed.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// Living in this room is a man of forty years old. He went out early and went home late, and his life was very regular. He never brought anyone back. Except once, I found out that he actually appeared in the [[room->2FAL]] of the dancer who lived on the second floor of the building. It seemed to be talking about serious things, but it didn't stay for a long time.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// Living in this room is a man of forty years old. He went out early and went home late, and his life was very regular. He never brought anyone back. Except once, I found out that he actually appeared in the [[room->2FAL]] of the dancer who lived on the second floor of the building. It seemed to be talking about serious things, but it didn't stay for a long time.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// This household lives a man who rarely goes out. The thin man is also less likely to be active in his living room, and he almost stays in his [[bedroom->3FCB]] desk against the computer during the day. But he opened the window every day, occasionally smoked cigarettes by the window, and then continued to work back to the computer. Because this person's life seems to be the most boring in this building, I generally don't pay attention to what is happening in this room.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// The man almost stays in his desk against the computer everyday. But he keeps the window open, occasionally smokes cigarettes by the window, and then continued to work on his computer. Because this man's life seems to be the most boring in this building, I generally forgot to pay attention to what is happening in his room.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// This room is home to a dancing lady who often wear exposed clothes in her house and come back home very late at night, with different men. She often squat downstairs in the window of her home to keep them quiet when the [[downstair->1FAL]] couple quarrel. But the most surprising thing to me is that, once at two o'clock in the middle of the night, I found that the man [[downstairs->1FAB]] appeared in her house. At first I thought they were arguing because of noise, but I found that the man had entered his bedroom for a long time and didn't come out.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// A young family of three lives in this household, the child is about 7 or 8 years old, she practices violin in the bedroom. But I noticed that when there' no people in the livingroom, she begin to watch the TV in the bedroom. And when there's someone in the [[livingroom->2FBL]], she continues to play the violin.So I think she doesn't like play it, just to satisfy her parents.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// A young family of three lives in this household, the child is about 7 or 8 years old I guess, sometimes practicing violin at home, although she plays terrible sound. The life of this family seems to be very harmonious. In the morning, the wife is always the first to open the curtains of the living room. After a while, the curtains in the [[bedroom->2FBB]] are also opened. The child and husband will eat with the wife in the living room. After the meal, the child will return to the bedroom to practice the violin. When the neighbors [[downstairs->1FAL]] quarreled, the husband would always stand in the window and scream at the couple downstairs, requiring them not to make noise. I guess it is because this sound overshadowed the sound of the child practicing the piano.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// The man living in the right household of the 2nd floor looks like forty years old, short and chunky, and looks ugly. From time to time, he picks out his chunky body from the window and look at the [[lady->1FBB]] on the left side downstairs. Once I was wearing my telescope to see what he was looking at, and he found me, then he returned to the room and closed the curtains. After that, every time he picked out his body and looked at the lady downstairs, I would hide behind my curtains and observe it in secretly.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// The man's bedroom is full of erotic books. The window and curtain of his bedroom are usually closed. But one day, I found that he had forgotten to close the curtains before leaving, so I carefully observed his bedroom with my telescope and found that his bookshelf,bed, and the wall were covered with posters of naked women. I think this man must be sexually perverted, which is why he always peeks at the [[woman->1FBB]] downstairs.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// There is a middle-aged couple living in this room. The couple seemed to have a bad relationship, often quarreling, and the whole building could hear the sound of their quarrel. The [[upstairs->2FAL]] residents and other [[neighbors->2FBL]] were very dissatisfied with their quarrel and often went downstairs to complain.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// The young single lady seems to be not happy, because she often cries alone in the bedroom but I can't figure out how long she cries because she will alaways close the window and the curtain when that happened. The interesting thing is that, the young lady never noticed that there's a man [[upstairs->2FCL]] watching her when she is in room.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// There is a young single woman living in 1F middle household. The reason Why I think this woman is single because I have never seen her bring any man home. She goes home early every day, and she doesn't stay in the living room for a long time. Then she is in the [[bedroom->1FBB]] But she also shouted at her [[neighbor->1FAL]] when the couple are quarrelling.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// This room is home to a young man in his twenties. This young man has a very regular daily life. He starts to walk around the bedroom at eight in the morning and goes home around eight in the evening. Every weekend, he brings a young woman back home. This woman lives in his room on weekends. I guess that is his girlfriend. But suddenly there is a weekend, he has not lighted up the living room light until 10 o'clock in the evening. And the woman who appeared in the room was not the woman who came every weekend, but the [[dancer->2FAL]] who lived on the left side of the second floor of the building. This seems to mean that something happened.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// This room is home to a young man in his twenties. This young man has a very regular daily life. He starts to walk around the bedroom at eight in the morning and goes home around eight in the evening. Every weekend, he brings a young woman back home. This woman lives in his room on weekends. I guess that is his girlfriend. But suddenly there is a weekend, he has not lighted up the living room light until 10 o'clock in the evening. And the woman who appeared in the room was not the woman who came every weekend, but the [[dancer->2FAL]] who lived on the left side of the second floor of the building. This seems to mean that something happened.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// This household seems to be vacant. And the livingroom window has never been opened.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// This room is home to a dancing lady who often wear exposed clothes in her house and come back home very late at night, with different men. She often squat downstairs in the window of her home to keep them quiet when the [[downstair->1FAL]] couple quarrel. But the most surprising thing to me is that, once at two o'clock in the middle of the night, I found that the man [[downstairs->1FAB]] appeared in her house. At first I thought they were arguing because of noise, but I found that the man had entered his bedroom for a long time and didn't come out.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// There is a middle-aged couple living in this room. The couple seemed to have a bad relationship, often quarreling, and the whole building could hear the sound of their quarrel. The [[upstairs->2FAL]] residents were very dissatisfied with their quarrel and often went downstairs to complain.
//back to [[MyView->arrangement]]// I was woken up by the a scream, followed by a gunshot. I felt that something bad happened and looked at my watch, it is three oclock in the morning, and I quickly go to the window and open curtain to see what happened.
The opposite building is in a dark until the [[mid-household->2FBL]]on the 2 nd floor first lighted up. The husband and wife walked out of the bedroom in horror, walked around the living room, then looked out the window and looked for what happened
[[...->light2]]Then, the [[rightmost->1FCB]] bedroom light on the first floor was also lit, and the young man opened the curtain and looked out to see what happened.
[[...->light3]]The lamp on the far left of the first floor was also lit. The [[couple->1FAL]] in the household walked around the room for a while and then started to shout.
[[...->light4]]The young woman’s [[room->1FBL]] next to the couple also lit up the light. The woman peeped out the window and shouted at the frightened couple next door, asking for what happened.
[[...->light5]]The [[man->2FCL]] who lived on the right side of the second floor also turned on the light. But he didn't open the window and didn't walk around.
[[...->light6]]The [[man->3FCL]] who lived on the far right of the third floor opened the window, but did not turn on the light. He looked down at the neighbor who shouted downstairs and lit a cigarette.
[[...->light7]]The light of this [[household->3FBL]] is finally bright, but the man who lives in this household has not opened the window to see what happened.
[[...->nolight]]Within three minutes of the gunshot, the lights in the room on the opposite floor were basically bright. The lights on the left side of the second floor and the room on the left side of the third floor were not lit. The room on the left side of the third floor was not occupied, but the room on the left side of the second floor is the [[room->2FAL]] of the dancer. And I clearly remember that the dancer came back home at night, and did not bring other men to go home with her.
[[...->action1]]I realized that the gunshot might have happened in the dancing girl's room, so I
//[[-stay in my house and go on watching->action1-1]]//
//or//
//[[-rush into the opposite building to check->action1-2]]//So I continued to stay in the room to observe, the lights on the opposite floor were turned off one after another, people continued to fall asleep, knowing that the next day, everyone started normal activities, but I found that the dancers did not get up as usual. I felt that something must have happened in the room of the dancers in the middle of the night, so I decided to [[check.->action1-2]]I rushed to the door of the dancer's [[room->2FAL]] and found that the door was open and the door lock had been damaged. After entering the living room, the dancer was found lying in the pool of blood in the living room, dead.
Other people of the building came into the house one by one, and get scared by the body of the dancer.
[[...->judge]]I began to think about the whole thing, and began to recall the relationship between the people living in this building, thinking about who the murderer might be:
//- What did the[[ couple->1FAL]] do when the gunshot [[happend->light3]] ? //
//- What did the[[ single lady->1FBL]] do when the gunshot [[happend->light4]] ? //
//- What did the[[ single man->1FCL]] do when the gunshot [[happend->light2]] ? //
//- What did the[[ family->2FBL]] do when the gunshot [[happend->scream]] ? //
//- What did the[[ wretched man->2FCL]] do when the gunshot [[happend->light5]] ? //
//- What did the[[ 40-old man->3FBL]] do when the gunshot [[happend->light7]] ? //
//- What did the[[ indoor-man->3FCL]] do when the gunshot [[happend->light6]] ? //
[[...->Conclusion]]After thinking for a while, I draw a conclusion about who is most likely to be the murder in the building. It is:
//- the[[ couple->result]] //
//- the[[ single lady->result]] //
//- the[[ single man->result]]//
//- the[[ family->result]] //
//- the[[ wretched man->result]] //
//- the[[ 40-old man->result]] //
//- the[[ indoor-man->result]] //In fact, unlike the movie back window, the result of this interactive fiction is open. So the murderer is who you think is the murderer!
//Thanks for [[playing->Rear Window]]//