A camera, a long metal stick, an USB cord, a blue book, a DVD, an electrical cord

Used the stick to pull down the screen.
Put the DVD on the DVD player. Used the black cord with the wall outlet to plug the DVD player, turned it on, turned the lights off and the image of a green landscape appeared. And now there seems to be nothing else I can do there and with the lights off I can't move. I'm obviously missing something.

And there's the USB cord that doesn't seem to fit the computer....

I got as far as getting the projection screen down with the projection playing and on a whim pointed the camera at it. Bingo! But what am I meant to be taking photos of? The cows mooing? The little people? Santa? Also, I can't seem to pug the camera into the computer type thing, even with the USB cord attached

I found the little place on the right of the computer where you plug the camera in. But now it wants a number! A number up to a maximum of 8 digits it seems. Hmmm.

items:
Blue Disc -> under couch cushion
USB Cable -> under couch cushion
Metal Stick -> under couch
Blue Key -> on the projection screen
Blue Book -> top drawer of computer desk
Camera -> top drawer of computer desk
Power Cable -> on top of vending machine

1. pull down projection screen with long stick, get blue key

2. use long stick on the top of the vending machine. Get Power Cable

Password in book:
G H
E D
B I
A G

circle with 100
circle with 1000

clicking on the side of the machine

on the left hand bottom of the screen when it is pulled down

the tiny hole above the desk

the arm wrestler. I click on the buttons to the right (like guitar hero) but nothing seems to stop him! He is super strong!

The letters refer to the unmarked numbers on the keypad. A = 1 which is the bottom left hand button. THerefore the code is:

Hope that helps someone :D

You need to use the arrow keys, not your mouse and try not to get too over excited and mess up the order of the dots. I found that I did a lot better if I stayed calm and pressed the arrow keys in a very methodical way, getting into the rhythm of it before the machine says, GO! Seems like a no brainer, but it took me at least fifty tries before I figured that out, so I hope it helps someone.

So, I figured out that you have to take pictures on the projection screen using the camera, then plug them in to the computer, which calculates their value. Getting three containing santa and a man got me 150 points. Once the screen zoomed back out, I was able to open the panel on the machine and take the 100 coin. Used that in the drinks machine to get the purple can, drank it. Apparently that made me 'more skilled'. Now I'm trying to beat the arm wrestling machine, but either it's ridiculously hard or I'm ridiculously bad at it...

items
Blue Disc -> under couch cushion
USB Cable -> under couch cushion
Metal Stick -> under couch
Blue Key -> on the projection screen
Blue Book -> top drawer of computer desk
Camera -> top drawer of computer desk
Power Cable -> on top of vending machine

1. pull down projection screen with long stick, get blue key

2. use long stick on the top of the vending machine. Get Power Cable

3. Click on the couch cushion, plug cable into wall.

4. put disc in DVD player

5. look at screen, turn out light

6. use camera on screen

7. use blue key on hole above desk to start arm wrestle

8. dbl-click camera, combine USB cable with Camera

9. look at projection screen, turn out lights

10. use camera on screen, take 3 pictures of just Santa.

11. Hook the camera into the computer, hit the spacebar.

12. Password = GHEDBIAG (taken from blue book) = 78542917

PROTIP: Button 1 is the bottom left, so the numpad goes:

789
456
123

13. Click on the part of the computer to the right, get the 100pt coin

Password in book:
G H
E D
B I
A G

GHEDBIAG
78542917

circle with 100
circle with 1000

drink the energy juice. Probably both cans

you can repeat the photo taking exercise to get more money, allowing the purchase of more cans of purple/blue energy drink. I'm going to neck a couple more of those, then we'll see about this arm wrestling game!

You can buy more than one can of each flavor of soda, up to five times each. The more you drink, the easier the game is. You get a bonus ending if you max out on soda.

put the camera + cable + photos in the computer

It never even crossed my mind that I could take more pictures, get another coin each time, and purchase more energy drinks! This time I'll kick that stout arm's, um, arm, for sure!

2nd photo game

You have to keep taking pictures of Santa and drinking energy drinks. You max out after 5 drinks, and then its incredibly easy to beat the arm because your strength is greater.

dbl-click the camera in your inventory

click the side of the camera (the little flappy thing near the back

click it again and I think the cable should just automatically connect.

Once you have the DVD player all set up, face the screen, turn out the lights, and use the camera on the backdrop

Take 3 good pictures, then turn on the light and go to the computer

Click the computer, then click the desk by the bottom-right of the computer. It should show you the USB port

Go back to main computer view and click the spacebar

It's encoded in the blue book... read the spoilers in other notes on this site to find it, I've posted it up twice I think.

In the secong picture-taking game (Using the red DVD that you get from beating the blue arm) you only want to concentrate on taking pictures of UFOs. Think of a UFO's color as it's level. The higher the level, the more points it gives you. The levels:
1. Gray
2. Black
3. Yellow
4. Blue
5. Pink
6. Red

It doesn't really matter, but what a UFO abducts affects how many levels it rises.

Cow- Up 1 level
Man- Up 2 levels
Santa- Up 3 levels

One red ufo, entirley in the shot, with nothing else, should net you about 3500 points.

after beating the blue arm, you receive a key with which you can insert into the small keyhole above the desk to fight a stronger red arm. i assume that you need to drink many red cans in order to beat it, however, none of my silver coins allow me to purchase a red drink. how do you get the other, more expensive soda? i've topped 3.9k on the picture game yet it still threw out a silver. ;(

taking pictures of quickly moving UFOs is too hard at this hour. When the mooing sound the cows make seems funny, you're either very tired or you're a toddler

What a UFO abducts also affects the direction it will travel in. If it abducts a cow it will continue on in the same direction, but if it abducts a man or Santa it will change directions.

The UFO drops you off, and you sit up, and then it comes back and zooms overhead a few times, as if trying to make a decision, or it's looking for something, then picks you back up and zooms away. Cue maniacal laughter. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHH!!!!

3 photos of red spaceships on their own or 2 or more spaceships that are not pale. The score is based on the colour and position of the spaceships

Get gold coin to get the red drink, not sure how many to max it.

use silver key to unlock second enemy

tap all 3 until you manage to obtain a rhythm and then you play like guitar hero style

taking photos only of de UFO's is the best

the red UFO's give more points (about 3000)

also taking photos with more than one UFO gives good score

You get max points for a red UFO (~3.5k) ONLY if the UFO is centered in the photo, so take your time and be prepared to let a lot of red UFOs get away. Took me ~30 min to get 5 red sodas.

If you've drunk 5 (max) of each soda, at the end you should see a gleaming object left of the blue figure. Click it (a stone), and you bean the UFO that dropped you off - it splashes down in the ocean.

you don't need to max the sodas in order to win the arm games... I won the second one with only three sodas.

I found a rock next to me on the beach after escaping and it was automatically thrown at the UFO. Two endings possibly???

You can click the gleaming object without having maxed sodas, too. Instead of the ship crashing though, it just bounces off, and then the ship comes and gets you again.

Did anyone else, when playing the 'red' arm wrestling rhythm game suddenly get lightning strikes on the buttons and push the arm really far down? That happened to me: I had only drank 2 of the red sodas. I think it has to do with hitting a lot in a row, but I'm not sure.

78542917

I effing hate Guitar Hero

Staying to one side is easier, I stuck to the right, and just adjusted height for the ships that were on the screen and waited for a red to come my way. BTW... 2 reds, a blue and a pink got me just over 10k in one photo!!!

You get higher scores if each of your pictures has multiple subjects; in the first part, try to snap a picture of Santa when something else is in the frame.

With the UFOs, don't bother taking a picture unless you can get at least two color-changed (i.e., anything but gray) ships at the same time. This can take quiet a while; you'll have to just sit and wait until they cooperate enough to cross each other after picking something up.

I did much better when I waited until a santa appeared before I worried about taking a picture. Concentrate on the UFO that picks him up, and hopefully it will turn red for max points.

Use the arrow keys, not the mouse.
There is no penalty for extraneous clicks.
You can click more than one column at once.

A foolproof (although inelegant) strategy to win is simply to mash all three arrow keys (left, right, down) furiously until you win the game. Not really very sporting but the arm game might be a little too tough for the 'escape the room' mindset.

opened the second drawer

a red disc and a silver key

the metal rod is under the couch.

Can I retrieve the stick/rod/reachy-thingamagig at the angle where I can see the couch, the power outlet and the corner of the projector?

Concentrate on taking well-centred pictures of red UFOs. A good shot can be worth as much as 4000 on its own and it's easier than trying to capture more than 1 UFO in shot.

They turn red seemingly after they have collected a certain number of 'points' - i.e. it takes lots of cows, but fewer cave men and only a couple of Santas to turn them red.

If you wait until a UFO becomes red, then try to snap a picture of it, obviously this will earn you more points. Unfortunately, your camera thing moves rather sluggishly. This can make it really hard and frustrating, especially combined with the fast-moving UFOs.
More obvious:

I found it easier to hang out in the middle - the UFOs move way too fast on the edges - and snap them as they were doing pickups, as waycooler suggests.

spend your coins immediately - don't wait like I did to get 5 and then find you actually only have 1!

When a UFO picks up a Santa, it levels up twice. If it picks up a caveman or a cow, then it only levels up once. I found it was easier to wait until a Santa appeared, then wait for a UFO to pick it up. If you have a red UFO and another color UFO, you can get a lot of points. You can even get enough that you only need two photos to make the 10,000 mark.

Also, the UFOs move randomly left or right once they pick up something. There's no set pattern, as far as I could tell.

The photography one is just plain stupid. The game itself is interesting and could have been more rewarding of the camera control was more responsive (e.g. didn't trail sluggishly behind the mouse cursor). The larger problem is the PREPARATION. To begin the game, one must turn off the lights and click the screen with the camera selected. Fine.

THEN you must approximate the value of your photographs by turning ON the light, moving to the right, clicking on the computer, clicking on a very small area in a corner of the screen, clicking the USB port with the camera selected, going back to the screen, and pushing a button. As if that were not enough, you must wait agonizingly as the photographs are appraised, the horrible languor of the process accentuated by the realization that you were only 50 points away from the score you needed for those damn coins.

This means you have to try the game AGAIN, which means clicking in the corner of the screen AGAIN, unplugging the camera, going back to the screen, going back to the room view, going left, turning the light OFF, and clicking on the projector screen with the camera selected.

You will invariably do this at least fifty times.

Be advised: as soon as you get a coin, use it IMMEDIATELY. If you keep it in your inventory and pick up another coin, it will disappear and be WASTED. Which means you have to go back and do the game FIFTEEN MORE TIMES.

The ARM WRESTLING GAME. The most annoying thing about this minigame, in my opinion, is that it makes you think you can win when you literally CAN NOT, due to not having had ENOUGH ENERGY DRINKS. Also, the slightest mistake sets you back a long way which can only be recovered by a long stretch of consistent perfection.

It does not help that the game is not synced to the music, as the conventions of rhythm games (which it is clearly trying to be) mandate.

I must say, though, that it was immensely rewarding to get the lightning bolts going on the second try. This was the only exciting part of the game.

when taking the UFO's aim for the blue and pink and red ones and always try to take double UFOs. Since there's no time limits, just take your time.

stick

Start the NOT-zoomed-in couch. There's a pixel or two you can click on halfway between the left end of the couch and the DVD/projector.

set the zoom level to 200%, everything will be slower

set zoom level to 200%
everything will be slower

The arm wrestling one, though easy once I got the hang of it, was simply too long. A hint that I was too weak to wrestle the arm would've been welcome as well.

The photograph one, however, was the real test of my patience. First of all, the camera was way too slow. It's almost impossible to keep up with the UFOs. And while some people have mentioned staying put and waiting for the UFOs, that just didn't work for me. I'd have been there for hours if I'd stayed put waiting for the right kind of UFOs to drift into range.

Also, there was too much footwork: turn off the lights, click on the screen, take pictures, turn on the lights, go to the computer, get score, rinse and repeat. I must have taken at least a dozen rounds of photographs before I got the right score.

I just picked one UFO to follow across the screen, and waited until it met up with another one. I tried taking pictures of the red ones all by themselves, but I could only win when I got three pictures of more than one UFO together.

1. Go left to the cupboard and get the camera and the diary. Top drawer.
2. Read the book, Take a note of the large letters at the end.Keep reading until you can't turn the pages anymore
3. Go Left twice. Look under the sofa to get a long hook.
4. Look under the sofa cushions to get a blue disc and a USB cable.
5. Examine the camera and click to open the USB port. Connect the USB cable to it.
6. Go right and use the hook to pull down the screen. Get the little blue key taped to the bottom left corner of the screen. .
7. Go right twice and go to the drinks machine and use the hook to get the cable from off the top. .
8. Go to the projector and plug it in using the cable. .
9. Click the button Open the disc player and insert the blue disc. .
10. Face the screen and turn the lights off. .
11. Select the camera and click on the screen. .
12. You now need to take three good photos. The faster the target = more points. Ex. Cavemen , Santa The more characters in the photo the better.
13. When you've got your three photos, turn the lights back on and go to the computer to your right. .
14. Connect the camera to the right side of the comp. .
.15. Click the 'space bar' And enter the code. The clue for the code is in the blue diary .Use the letters!!!!.
.16. The letters in the book in numbers are the code,Ex. a=1 b=2 etc. so the code is 78542917.
.17. Enter the code and click the 'space bar' again. Your photos will be downloaded and you'll get some points .
18.Your score should be 100 or more. You should check the slots on the right of the number pad for a coin. Get the camera and go to the drinks machine. Or I recommend getting more pics and getting another coin.
.19. Insert the coin and choose a blue drink. I had 2 coins so I drank 2 drink .
.20. Select the drink and click to pop the top. Click it again to drink it. .
.21. Face the little green table and focus in on the little hole on the wall. .
.22. Click the hole with the blue key to reveal the arm wrestling machine. .
.23. What you need to do is hit the spot that decends on the right of the screen at the point they hit the circles. You can use the mouse or the arrow keys, but the mouse was easier for me! Practice makes perfect and the energy drink does make it easier. I won with 2 drinks .
.24. When you eventually win collect the red key from the little drawer. .
.25. Go to the cupboard and unlock the bottom drawer. Collect the key and red disc. .
26. Go to the projector and insert the red disc. .
.27. When you turn off the light you need to take pics of the UFOs. You need to get three good photos again. Wait till the UFOs turn red. As they take up more people they might turn red. They also turn red when they take a Santa. .
28. Download your photos into the machine as before. If you score over 10,000 points you'll get a gold coin. .
29. Use the gold coin in the drinks machine to get a red can of drink. .
.30. Go to the arm wrestling machine again. .
.31. Take the second key and put it on the hole The arm wrestler will now change to a robotic arm. .
.32. You'll need to fight and beat this arm .
.33. When you've won get the gold key and unlock the door! Freedom! .