Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure

Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 12/01/11 09:52 AM

Announcing Miskatonic, a point and click adventure set in H.P. Lovecraft's New England. It's a mystery with comedy and horror elements that tells the story of a new professor investigating suspicious events at the infamous Miskatonic University.

You can try the Demo here.

You can read more about the game, see screenshots and videos here.

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Miskatonic is an independent point-and-click adventure created by a lone developer using the Wintermute engine. It is inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, but is an original story not based on any individual work.

A mystery with horror and comedy elements, Miskatonic tells the story of a newly hired professor at Miskatonic University, and her attempts to investigate suspicious events around campus.

In the tradition of classic LucasArts and Sierra adventures, Miskatonic offers a mix of sleuthing and puzzle-solving in a rich environment full of eccentric characters.

Happy Gaming!

Ana

Posted by: MaG

Re: Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 12/01/11 09:59 AM

Thanks, Ana.

Posted by: Becky

Re: Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 12/01/11 11:13 AM

Horror and comedy together sounds amusingly terrifying! Thanks Ana.

Posted by: Mad

Re: Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 12/01/11 01:24 PM

Thanks, BrownEyedTigre !! Looks a very promising concept

Although I have to say an episodic release is not my personal favourite way to go.
Sometimes the wait for following episodes becomes too long and sometimes they never materialise at all

Posted by: kazzmo

Re: Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 12/02/11 02:14 PM

I really enjoyed the demo. Looking forward the the complete game.

Posted by: jfcwilson

Re: Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 12/03/11 02:17 AM

I love horror/comedy. Bring it on!

Posted by: dragonuk44

Re: Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 12/04/11 04:48 AM

try this ta

Posted by: traveler

Re: Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 12/04/11 05:48 PM

Did you notice that the game manual actually tells you where the saved games will be stored? Yay!

And the humor is there. I laughed out loud at one paragraph in the Dean's letter to the staff.

I could wish our heroine didn't have the same back problem as the gal in A New Beginning but better her than me.

I do wonder if Classics professors dress that way.

Now, if I could just figure out...well, I guess it will come to me.

So far, I'm enjoying this demo.

Gil.

Posted by: Lotus777

Re: Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 12/05/11 03:47 PM

Thank you Ana. I suppose you don't know when the complete game is to be released or where we can purchase it???

Oooops, used the additional link and got my answer.

Posted by: BrownEyedTigre

Re: Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 12/05/11 04:34 PM

Lotus,

Posted by: martinc

Re: Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 12/08/11 10:00 AM

I bought Miskatonic as well and I must say I am very glad I did. Beautiful graphics, humurous, great atmosphere, nice puzzles. Everything to make an avid gamer happy! I was stuck and the designer helped me out in a few minutes (and of course feeling stupid afterwards:-)). For me: let the next episodes come quickly.

Posted by: dragonuk44

Re: Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 12/11/11 06:58 AM

Yes I have bought it but am so stuck .good game though

Posted by: JoAJ

Re: Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 02/14/12 01:28 AM

Has anyone been able to use Paypal to buy this download? I was going to download it just now but got as far as filling in details but their Paypal link doesn't seem to work - really dislike using actual credit cards online.

Posted by: Cue

Re: Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 02/14/12 09:28 AM

They show that the site is PayPal verified but there's no choice to use PayPal in their payment option dropdown box. Since I'm also interested in buying this game, and my online payment preference is PayPal, I've sent them an email asking about it.

Update

Here is the reply that I got back from the Miskatonic site:

"The payments are all handled by Plimus, an e-commerce company. It seems they have stopped processing Paypal recently. I have contacted them for support, but I haven't heard back yet. I will let you know if the problem can be solved."

Posted by: JoAJ

Re: Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 02/14/12 04:09 PM

I received a reply from Miskatronic this morning, this is what it says

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Hi Jo
The payments are handled by Plimus, an e-commerce company. I don't have any access to the financial details of the transactions. This is the second time in the last few months that I have heard about some problem with them accepting Paypal (both customers were in Australia, it seems). Apparently they are trying to upgrade their system to better guard against Paypal fraud etc.

I understand your concerns about using credit card numbers online. I will talk to Plimus as soon as possible, and I'll get back to you when they contact me. Hopefully there is some other option.

So fingers crossed that they'll get it all sorted out.

Posted by: BrownEyedTigre

Re: Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 02/14/12 04:58 PM

Good luck Jo! Thanks.

Ana

Posted by: Cue

Re: Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 02/15/12 11:31 AM

Hi Jo,

Plimus is making changes to the way that they handle PayPal. Because of this, websites that utilize the Plimus service, such as Miskatonic, will have to make changes to their systems to comply. According to Miskatonic, the changes may take a little bit of time.

I'm going to wait a while to see what happens but I'm really getting anxious to get into the game. I have a reminder in my calendar to check back in a month.

Posted by: Laurette

Re: Announcing Miskatonic, A New H.P. LoveCraft Inspired Adventure - 02/21/12 04:53 PM

Loaded the demo and played awhile. May be interesting. One thing that bugged me, she kept saying "the guidebook says," -almost felt like screaming after about 5 of those!