Well, there’s the completely unrealistic one I’ve already talked about… and then there’s this one I really wanted to have written a year ago, but haven’t gotten around to yet. The basic idea is that you’re an engineer in an experimental underwater habitat and need to fix some sort of hardware issue, lest the station must be abandoned. The station is laid out in a ring shape, so navigation would mostly use “clockwise”/“cw” and “counterclockwise”/“ccw” instead of compass directions. At some point you would have to leave the station to do some work from the outside.
Really, the main hurdle is that I have a hard time coming up with puzzles. It was fun to think about the theory of such a station, though.
I’ve thought about submitting this to SeedComp, but that would feel as if I’m officially giving up on ever implementing the idea, and I’m not ready to do that yet. (Also I’ve kinda hurt my wrist and writing a lengthy text in time for the deadline doesn’t sound appealing right now.)