Emerald City Confidential: a new Wadjet Eye game
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This is the new "mysterious" project Dave was working on: Indie studio Wadjet Eye Games (the Blackwell series) has finally come out of stealth mode about its super secret PlayFirst project. The two companies are collaborating on Wadjet Eye Games' first fully-funded adventure game, Emerald City Confidential.
According to Wadjet Eye Games:
The magical land of Oz, as written by L. Frank Baum and visualized by MGM, is put through the gritty filter of 1940s film noir. Harsh city streets, grey rainy skies, femme fateles, tough guys, trenchcoats, fedoras and plot twists. It's Oz, seen through the eyes of Raymond Chandler.
You are Petra. Emerald City's only private detective. One dark night, she is approached by a strange woman named Dee Gale. It appears Dee's fiancé is missing, and Dee is willing to pay high and above the going rate in order to find him. Lacking any other prospects, Petra agrees. What starts off as a simple missing person case soon takes Petra deep into the seedy underbelly of the Emerald City's criminal underground and beyond. She will encounter many characters both familiar and new, learn several magic spells, and uncover the answer to a dark secret that has haunted Petra all her life.
If you've read or watched The Wizard of Oz then many of the charactesr in Emerald City Confidential will be familiar, albeit with a few twists. The Lion is Emerald City's finest, most ruthless and cunning lawyer. Nick Chopper, aka the Tin Man, was made Governor of Winkie Country after the Wicked Witch of the West was killed, but has since fallen on hard times. And then there's Queen Ozma, the ruler of the kingdom whose decision to ban the use of magic (except for a select few) was unpopular with her people.
The game will feature more than 40 hand-drawn 2D backgrounds, more than 6,500 lines of spoken dialogue, 35 characters, and a story that takes place over 5 chapters.
Emerald City Confidential will launch on PlayFirst in January, 2009. First screenshots and the characters can be seen on Wadjet site HERE I love Dave's games, and I'm really looking forward to this one! 
Carla “Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”
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Re: Emerald City Confidential: a new Wadjet Eye game
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This game looks very unique, liking the screenshots, and the story sounds quite good too.
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Re: Emerald City Confidential: a new Wadjet Eye game
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Looks really nice!!!
Thanks Carla
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Re: Emerald City Confidential: a new Wadjet Eye game
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Thanks Carla, I love Dave's games too. Do you think BFG will pick this one up?  All signs so far appear that BFG should get this like they had the others. Ana 
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Re: Emerald City Confidential: a new Wadjet Eye game
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11/03/08 07:00 PM
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Catching up on my email, I just read the message from Dave. Sounds great.
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Adventure Game: Broken Age
Darkside: Star Wars: The Old Republic
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Re: Emerald City Confidential: a new Wadjet Eye game
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This game looks like such fun---thanks for posting about it! PS Guybrush, hope you don't mind my pointing to you but you mentioned getting a message from Dave. I get alot of games from Interact, but I don't have a newsletter or anything that comes from the site. Is there a special place on the site to sign up for that? Thanks so much for your help in advance! Cat
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