Where's an Egg?

Where's an Egg? () is a computer game from Videlectrix, a fictional video game company, created by the makers of Homestar Runner. It is another parody game of the company. It is a Web-based Flash game and portrayed as a real, but extremely obscure game with all captions in broken Russian and clunky graphics reminiscent of early days of computer gaming. The game takes place in Soviet Russia with references to Lenin's Tomb, Sputnik, and Siberia. You play as an unnamed detective in search of what appears to be an egg.

Videlectrix claims on its homepage that it purchased the game overseas "some years ago." However, no one at the company could figure out how the game worked until they found a page from the original instruction booklet (in the original Russian, along with strained translations into English from the seller) for sale on an online auction site.

Gameplay

The object of the game is to find the thief who is in possession of the egg by questioning the shifty characters, each of which is paired with an object and a point of origin. Asking AbOUT objects and people will result in pictographical answers, some helpful, others not — a setting similar to the Knights and Knaves logic puzzle. You are given three bullets displayed in a box in the upper left hand corner, which is three tries to find the perpetrator. You are also given a lengthy 1000 seconds from start to find the criminal. Humorously, one must employ capital punishment to win the game.

If successful, the detective is awarded a medal by Stalin in front of Lenin's Mausoleum underneath a fireworks display. Additionally, depending on the time taken, celebratory fly-bys of milestone Soviet spacecraft will be awarded - specifically Sputnik, Vostok 1 (first human spaceflight) and Voskhod 2 (first space-walk). Failure to find the villain before either expending all three bullets or using up the time on the clock will result in the detective being chained to a rock at a gulag in Siberia, and then being skeletonized.