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I picked up the Demo of Parallels Cross. I look forward to giving it a try. Your recommendations rarely fail me.

We certainly can, if you want to nominate it. The demo sits on my desktop, un-played. I just haven’t had time. Thus, I really know nothing about the game, other than Colpet recommended it. She did say it had no HO scenes. Similar to Azada and Penumbra Motel.

I finished Secret Order - Masked Intent. I thought it was quite good. There have been discussions, both here and on some of the Casual Friday AGSotD threads, about why many casual games look so similar. The answer was that many developers use the same Spark Game Engine. However, this is the first game I’ve played where the game engine is actually listed in the credits.

Also, according the the Sunward web site, this game was the first one in the series. So, I guess whatever the next game I play is, it will tell me if the series is moving forward, or taking a step backwards.

I don’t want to be disagreeable, but there is quite a good chance that the Spark Game Engine was upgraded between its first use in the second Enigmatis game and this one. The Mists of Ravenswood being the first game that used the game engine.

crabapple - 20 January 2016 08:31 PM

Actually I thought the Secret Order games looked different from most. None of that blurriness you see in a lot of games (at least not in the main games.

See above.

crabapple - 20 January 2016 08:31 PM

Adventuregamers lists the dates of publication of the four Secret Order games here http://www.adventuregamers.com/companies/view/1824
Secret Order: New Horizon was the first of the series—even has the same heroine (Sarah Pennington).
http://www.bigfishgames.com/games/6955/the-secret-order-new-horizon/
I’m not sure why Sunward wouldn’t list New Horizon on their website, but they did take the series in a different direction with Masked Intent—enough that it’s almost a different series.

Far be it from me to dispute anything Adventure Gamers has to say about anything. But given a choice between what the developers say and what AG has to say, I think I will go with the developers.

And….

What point are you trying to make? The Sunward site very recently changed. As in it changed since my last post that quoted it as the definitive resource. If you look at the inclusion date of Sunward into the database, you will see that it was just posted yesterday.

I see no need to go to war with your source material.

I really don’t care which was the first game.

Note to all the Casual Game participants. The voting/nominating process for the next CCPT (Casual Community Playthrough) is open.

Please stop by and cast a vote and/or nominate a game you would like to play. If you cast a vote and find yourself too busy to play, you don’t die! If you nominate a game, I hope you will consider leading that game’s playthrough. But if you don’t have time to lead a game, but want to play it in the playthrough, nominate it anyway. I’m sure one of the participants who has also played the game will volunteer.

So, whatever the situation please do stop by and take a look at what is going on.

Tim

I finished Masked Intent and bought and started Beyond Time. I neither like nor dislike one compared to the other. But they are quite different in style. If I had to choose a style, I would choose the former.

I’ve played that. I liked it. The only problem I had was with the mapping feature. I don’t know if it was a game problem or a Tim problem. It was certainly not a deal breaker.

I don’t recall having that problem. In fact I know I didn’t because I got into the mansion in order to take the screenshot. I will say that I;ve had similar problems in the past with other games. First step is to send a Dr Felix diagnostic report to BFG Tech. If they can’t help then download and reinstall BFG Game manager and the game itself. Make sure you also delete any files related to the game. Those are found at Computer/Drive/User/yourname/appdata/roaming. Look for the ERS master file and delete the Queen of Spades sub-folder.

I think most of my problems occurred when I played a demo of the CE, and downloaded the SE version.

Still, doing the above shou8ld solve your problems.