Public Enemies: Bonnie & Clyde

Follow Bonnie & Clyde’s track through the United States! 1933. Janette Jones Parker is a writer and has taken a room in the Red Crown Tavern in Platte City, Missouri, to write her next novel. She discovers it is where Bonnie & Clyde used to hide, and there she finds a notebook, which ends to be Bonnie’s log. Help Janette to decipher the strange message left by Bonnie along her journey! Go through the United States, on the tracks of the two outlaws!

Game Size 71MB

Khurasan Dictator; Finding my Design-Fu

Sometimes models seem to make themselves, other times it’s like beating a steel plate with a foam rubber mallet. This project was the latter.

Jon at Khurasan has been keeping me busy; he gave me a good description and a few concept images to work with. The concepts had differing styles, Crab, Turtle and Arachnid. Jon also wanted a smooth surface free of clutter and minor details, bolts and such.

Normally I can just make a concept sketch and get to work but this one was difficult for some reason. Even after the concept sketch that Jon signed off on, I still found myself unable to jell the idea in my head. Perhaps it was my sweet dog Maggie passing. Perhaps such a large model without surface detail intimidated me. Whatever the cause it took a while to find my Design-Fu.

In the end, the “Fu” flowed and I was able to give Jon something we were both happy with.

You can see from the component view that its a dual layer turret, each can fire at different targets. The head and all six legs can be glued in place or left to move by gluing the top and bottom of the body together without gluing the components in place. Add to this all the small ball turrets and you have a very customizable model.

Fond farewell to a very dear friend

Maggie was about the best four legged companion one could ask for; she passed peacefully at home on the 22nd after 13 years of love and joy. We will miss her deeply.

Jewel Quest

Explore the ancient ruins of Mayan civilization while discovering hidden treasures and priceless artifacts. In this unique new take on the Match 3 genre, you must rearrange valuable relics to turn sand tiles into gold. When all of the tiles in a puzzle board are golden, you win! As you venture deeper into the jungle, you will encounter increasingly difficult puzzles containing secret twists, cursed items, and buried artifacts.

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Nick Chase and the Deadly Diamond

Nick Chase is back in an all-new adventure and is ready for action!! After a mysterious package arrives at his favorite bar, Nick has a new case! Discover who delivered the ancient artifact, and what exactly the curse of the Deadly Diamond is, as you explore gorgeous Hidden Object scenes and crack the case. Solve perplexing puzzles to track down valuable clues in Nick Chase and the Deadly Diamond!

Game Size 141MB

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Janes Realty 2

Feel creative, play Jane's Realty 2! Jane's real estate business is developing very fast, now her opportunities are even greater than ever. In a brand new game Jane will have a huge amount of land that needs to be bought and built on. You can help her to build a wide range of objects: from ordinary houses to the whole estates with beautiful gardens and fountains!Moreover there is a rich collection of amazing furniture and differents items for your buildings. By the way, you can not only build new houses but also you have a chance to renovate buildings, add gloss and luxury to their image!Hurry up, build and upgrade your dream-town! All is up to you!

Game Size 76 MB

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Mind's Eye: Secrets Of The Forgotten

Nothing can prepare you for the experience of playing Mind's Eye: Secrets of the Forgotten, a hidden object adventure that will challenge, thrill and disturb you. Follow Gabrielle, an enterprising journalist who stumbles on the story of her lifetime when she smells murderous intent behind what everyone assumes was a suicide. As Gabrielle delves deeper into the mystery, participating in scientific experiments that allow her to enter the minds of other people to search for clues, she will uncover a shocking secret about her past that will surprise even jaded gamers. Featuring a unique scrolling perspective that allows items along different depth planes to be linked into a single object, Mind's Eye offers an unforgettable journey into the subconscious!

Game Size 171MB

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Nora Roberts - Vision In White

Based on Nora Roberts’ novel ‘Vision in White’, Nora Roberts: Vision in White game tells the story about the four friends Mac, Emma, Laurel, and Parker. They run their own wedding-planning company Vows which is considered to be the best in Connecticut.
As Nora Roberts: Vision in White game opens, Mac tells you the story of her life. From the first levels you do your job of arranging weddings, decorating gorgeous wedding cakes and taking photos of newlyweds and guests. Search for hidden items in great wedding themed locations, earn hints and play fun mini-games. Enjoy amazing graphics and pleasing soundtracks as you follow Mac’s charming love story throughout the game.
Featuring engaging hidden object game play, gorgeous artwork, impressive voice-acting and a great story-line, Nora Roberts: Vision in White will take you to the world fascination and festive mood.

Game Size93MB

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Flower Paradise

Build a blooming garden of blossoms, birds, and butterflies! Complete innovative match and clear puzzles to customize your land’s flowers, plants, animals, statues, and more! Design iconic Japanese, Hawaiian, and French gardens, then save your personalized paradise as a screensaver or desktop!

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Virtual Villagers 4 The Tree of Life

Continue the story of the mysterious island of Isola, and the tribe of lost refugees in Virtual Villagers 4 - The Tree of Life. The island's chief is worried that life is slowly diminishing on the island and has selected a tribe of explorers to find the source of Isola's troubles. They discover, and inevitably populate, the hidden eastern shore of the island. Watch over a new group of villagers as they explore the eastern shore of the island, uncover fantastic mysteries, unravel the story of Isola, and save the Tree of Life!

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Youda Fairy

The wise old forest wizard has provided a watchful eye over the kingdom for over 1000 years. Together with his fairies he has been protecting the innocent villagers from the strange and dark forces controlled by the evil witch. This epic battle between the forces of good and evil is as old as time itself, but now the kingdom is danger. The Forest Wizard must leave the kingdom and he is now seeking a replacement. He wants you to become the new forest wizard and guard the kingdom against the wicked enchantments and spells of the evil witch.
The forest wizard relies on fairies to help guard the kingdom and to begin your new life, you must first learn how to create them in the magical pond. Using lilies, fireflies and a bit of special magic you will create the special fairies and learn to send them to protect the villager’s houses. The old wizard will also teach you the secrets of wizardry instructing you on the spells and potions you will need to defeat the dark forces.
But beyond the magical pond the peaceful kingdom is not what is seems, deep within the forest there are enchanted animals and evil spells. The witch is a potent opponent who is willing to go to any lengths to battle with you for the reigns of the kingdom. She will make the animals eat your fireflies and cast spells over the villager’s houses which you will have to learn how to break.
You will need to use all of your wisdom and powerful spells you have learnt from the forest wizard to help you on your quest. Prove you are a worthy opponent of the evil witch and defeat her to become the new forest wizard

Game Size 59MB

Merriam Websters Spell-Jam

Spelling has never been this much fun! Improve your word prowess and prepare to be the next Spelling Bee Champion! Get the whole family in on the exciting action with a Multiplayer game. With 3 exciting game modes to choose from and thousands of words to spell, Merriam Webster's Spell-Jam has something for everyone.

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Some work I did for Khurasan; Cafferata APC

                        Dropship Horizon Link

Hidden Identity - Chicago Blackout

You awake in a Chicago hotel room with no memory of your name, who you are or how you ended up there. Explore 25 captivating Chicago locations to find cleverly hidden objects that will help you piece together your identity.

Uncover all the secret notes that you left behind and solve 5 different types of mini-games that will help jog your memory. Uncover your true identity today!

Game Size 54MB

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Tourist Trap - Build the Nations Greatest Vacations

From the World’s Largest Ball of Twine to the great Corn Palace nothing says Americana like the zany roadside attractions scattered across the good ol’ US of A. In Tourist Trap - Build the Nation’s Greatest Vacations, you become the mayor of a small Middle American town. Your citizens are full of unique and wacky ideas for what will entice the stream of family vacationers, college students and the buses of senior citizens with hope that they’ll choose your exit ramp on their cross-country travels.

Game Size 20MB

Arvale- Treasure of Memories- Episode I

Duncan Forsythe, son of Druncan Forsythe, is the royal gardener of Entoque Castle. He spends his days battling nasty flower beds, hunting down poisonous weeds, and occasionally doing his Royal Majesty's laundry . . . meanwhile, the buzz around the castle is that Duncan once saved the world.
This is news to Duncan. He can't remember a thing that happened over the last few years. He definitely doesn't remember saving the world. Unfortunately, he may have to - lest the world get thrown into turmoil yet again.
Dark forces are rising, and the key to defeating them lies in Duncan's memory - the memory that is now scattered throughout the world of Arvale. Take him on an epic quest to retrieve those memories and thwart certain doom for the entire world, all the while battling monsters, exploring dungeons, challenging dragons, rescuing fair maidens, gathering friends and foes, and - it wouldn't be an Arvale adventure without this - talking with wheelbarrows.

Game Size 77MB

Ancient Rome

Help spread the ancient Roman Empire by setting up cities and providing valuable resources throughout the land! Produce goods, construct new buildings, and attract new workers as you expand the reach of the Roman Empire in Ancient Rome, a fast-paced Strategy game. Meet your goals and accept valuable rewards from the emperor to set up your own piece of land and carve your name into the annals of History!

Game Size 59MB

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Potion Bar

Plunge into the captivating world of magic! Make delicious potions with Rainbow spray and Vampire fangs and serve them to fantastic clients. Decorate glasses with wild lotuses and Phoenix feathers. Witness your amazing potions endow incredible power, reverse aging and help get to the secrets of the Universe. Travel world and space, see prophetic dreams and solve the enigmatic mystery!

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Jane's Realty 2

Feel creative, play Jane's Realty 2! Jane's real estate business is developing very fast, now her opportunities are even greater than ever. In a brand new game Jane will have a huge amount of land that needs to be bought and built on.  You can help her to build a wide range of objects: from ordinary houses to the whole estates with beautiful gardens and fountains!Moreover there is a rich collection of amazing furniture and differents items for your buildings. By the way, you can not only build new houses but also you have a chance to renovate buildings, add gloss and luxury to their image! 

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Closer look at Teaser and more

After a lot of work we are finally done with the teaser! Hope you all enjoy it! In case you have not seen the teaser yet then do so before continuing with this post:



The map played in this teaser is based upon two other maps from the game and have been especially built to show of the mood and gameplay of Amnesia. If you are worried that the teaser will spoil parts of the game for you, have no fear, the exact events of the trailer are not in the game, but there will be some that are quite similar.

The map took about two days to build and script and then it took around 100 playthroughs before we got it as we wanted. Whenever I felt satisfied, I showed Jens a clip and he immediately gave me a list of uncountable other things that I could do better. As if Jens obsession for details was not enough, I also had to record the teaser while having an extremely smoothed camera. This meant that I had to pre-plan all camera movements because when ever I moved the mouse, the camera just gently floated towards the destination. It was especially hard to get the correct position during fast movements. This will of course not be the case in-game and was just something I had to do to get nicer camera movements for the clip.

"So the clip was not really from the game after all!", the skeptic might say. Well, the player will never experience exactly what is shown in this teaser and the main reason for this is to make it short and fun to watch. What happens in the trailer will perhaps take 20 - 30 minutes using proper gameplay and that would not be very fun to watch. There is a big difference between watching as a passive spectator and directly interacting with a game. Our goals was to cram the feeling of playing the game into a 3 minute movie clip. Also note that there is no cheating here, I actually played this map in a continuous recording and did not render it offline or something like that. Hope this clears up things :)

On a technical note, we really wanted to record it in HD, but my computer was just too crappy and we did not want a 10fps recording. The up-side of me having an ancient rig is that the game should flow smoothly on just about an computer bought over the past 5 years though.

Now for some more in-depth study of the movie:

- 0:20
This is not very visible in the clip, but there are actually fishes swimming around here. We intend to get many types of critters in the game and this is one of the ones that are in right now. (another critter is in the clip, can you spot it?)
Also note that we got proper water reflections and refractions. It is way more advanced than seen in Penumbra and also optimized for indoor rendering.

- 0:30
Rotations and other advanced physical controls are the same as in Penumbra. They are a lot smoother this time though and even though it is actual physics being simulated there is little lag noticed.

- 0:33
That scream has a very significant part of the plot. What I cannot say.

- 0:44
New nice feature with the doors is that you can grab at any place while interacting and it will always work. In Penumbra it was very specific where you grabbed, but not so in Amnesia.

- 1:05
As darkness decreases your sanity you never want to enter dark areas like this without using the lantern or having some candles (or similar) to light.

- 1:21
All the nice blood and stain effects are thanks to Luis hard work with the decal editor!

- 1:54
First glimpse of new enemy! What can it be...

- 2:01
Just as in Penumbra, looking at enemies is a best avoided. In Amnesia it will cause your sanity to drop.

- 2:05
Notice how books just slightly slide along the shelf because of friction and so on. This is all due the nice simulations provided by Newton Game Dynamics. It was quite fun setting everything up on the table so that that some fell off while pushing it, giving the a feel of urgency when trying to barricade the door. The table was also harder to move due to the weight from all the stuff on it, so had to give it an extra push to get into place (using the "throw" button). One never knows what going to happen with physics...

- 2:26
It took a while to remember the best times to open the closer door, in order to get a nice effect. After 50 tries or so, I had that creature pretty much figured out though (apart from the times he managed to stray from the path and not be where I expected, that actually scared me a few times...). Also note that there is no special gimmick for hiding in a closet (like in Clock Tower, etc), you are always in full control and use same mechanics as the rest of the game.

- 3:13
Brief glimpse of another enemy...


Hope you enjoyed this closer look at the teaser! If you liked the movie, please spread the word and post on your Facebook, Youtube, Twitter or what not. We do not have any big PR resources (it is basically me or Jens taking a break from normal work to do it), so any help is extremely welcome! Thanks for all support so far!

Awakening - The Dreamless Castle

After Awakening in a mysterious castle it’s up to you to collect clues and valuable items needed to solve perplexing puzzles and escape! Listen to your fairy friend as she guides you towards the exit. Play fun minigames and solve clever locks to make it to the next room in the castle. Use your Hidden Object skills to search for the next hint and discover a young Princess’ destiny in Awakening: The Dreamless Castle.

Game Size 124MB

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