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No Spoilers, December 20, 2011By "no spoilers" I mean there is no way to spoil The Space under the Window other than the player merging the mind, spirit, and the body together at the moment of engagement. Hints therefore are safeguarded in action, not in significance. Reading a walkthrough of this game would be redundant. Walking-through the game is the walkthough.
Unusual as it may seem, The Space under the Widow exploits the liquid architecture of the digital computer like Adventure does. While Adventure features cave-crawling and a navigational system composed of both common nouns and cardinal direction, The Space under the Window enlarges the spatial sensory of the common noun while abandoning the cardinal direction. In that way, The Space under the Window turns the physicality of Adventure into the metaphysics of the window. If the player of Adventure travels from room to room with a sense of the natural landscape retained, the player of The Place under the Window traverse from space to space with the sense of the informational structure amplified. As such, information, meaning, and action are brought together.
Consequentially, words become empty vases, glittering glasses, and objects to be manipulated. In that regard, it can be said that The Space under the Window is at the same time traditional in its invocation of Adventure and innovative in its deprivation of the significance of cave-crawling.