http://logicgames.blogspot.com/2006/02/mind-rover.html
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mindrover

Also, can he jump through a window from a building and then free fall through the window of the building opposite, and then start shooting up the place?

If so, I am going to buy this. If not, I am going to buy this but what a shame.

Oh God… As soon as I read that, I got goosebumps.

That’s definitely the best I’ve read so far.

You should add a reddit button next to the facebook one. I’ve seen you posting on there! YOU CAN’T HIDE.

Turning up the heating might cause guards to run to the water coolers! Or to remove clothing!

…Which you could then steal and wear to impersonate a guard! So long as you can master a match-3 mini-game which simulates your imitation of their mannerisms, and use a hardcoded natural language interpreter feature to swap stories about how great the Simpsons was last night to earn their trust!

So in addition to your current standard guard, you can have patrolling guards, guards that sleep until they respond rapidly to alarms, guards that notice if equipment isn’t working right and move out to fix it, guards with night vision goggles that aren’t hampered by turning out the lights &c.

Introduce each type slowly and then build up to wonderfully complex scenarios. And then have a level editor! Also solve world hunger with next patch k pls thx

e.g. getting into a certain area behind a blue door requires gaining access to the security system, rewiring it so that red access cards open blue doors, then baiting a guard with a red card into trying to go through a red door. complications could be brought about by the fact that when rewired, all coloured doors would open, potentially putting you at risk from patrolling guards/dangers that were previsouly closed off.

Re-routing phone calls?

I don’t know how you’d communicate this exactly, but if we know that one particular character is always picking up the phone and yelling ‘COME UP HERE AND SEE ME!’ down it, you could presumably rewire the phone so that different people are receiving the phone call, or you could indeed just connect it to nothing and break the phone entirely.

So – obviously – a button that raises and lowers a lift. But presumably you could rewire it so that instead of raising and lowering that lift, it now raises and lowers some… comparable thing.

Like, a bellboy is flicking a switch to raise and lower a dumb waiter in an adjacent room, but you rewire it so that it now raises and lowers the water level in the pool (or, erm, something). Said bellboy is not aware that he is doing this, and therefore keeps doing it.

I like the idea of a guard making himself a cup of coffee being the trigger for the entire security system collapsing.

a way of moving rooms around like a sliding puzzle could open up possibilities, but i guess it would require a lot of planning and work and might not fit in with the tone of the game. I guess it would turn it more into a puzzle game than a smooth hybrid of puzzle and action, but it could add another element to the gameplay.

If guards patrolled, that could open up a whole lot more interactions. A patrolling guard would turn on lights on each floor he encounters. He’d try to open and close doors without the player prompting. What if he encountered a door that wouldn’t open or a light that wouldn’t turn on? Would he be able to fix it? Summon another guard to check it out?