It's been a while now since my very first Flash game, Area 50.5, was uploaded. I'm happy with the reception it has received, though there was one thing about many people's comments that I found a little depressing.

Hardly anyone seemed to get the significance of that thing that falls in front of Una at the end of the game. I thought that a game that was the best-selling PC title of all time (until 2002, when The Sims topped it) would be a bit more widely recognized, but apparently it's not.

Anyway, I've never really been part of the Myst community (I played the original when I was young and none of the sequels I've played have really captured that first experience), so I've never really had my own "Stranger" (that is, a face for the otherwise invisible protagonist). Then I remembered how I'd slipped that little in-joke at the end of Area 50.5 and started thinking of an alternate ending when Una didn't ignore that book, and...well, the picture should speak for itself.