I would think that it would make it to BigFish Chrissie and I am awaiting confirmation from the publisher on the boxed copies.

Ana

Ooh! Both sound promising - thank you Ana!

I hope it makes it on to Big Fish so I can use one of my credits to purchase it. It sounds fantastic. I love all of Dave's games. Keep up the good work, Dave!

As the background artist for Emerald City Confidential, let me thank you for the compliments.

And I'd love to work on one of the Blackwell games, so we'll just have to see how things go.

Well Done JohnGreenart! I hope you all get to live out your dreams, that would be awesome!

Ana

Hi JohnGreenArt -- you do beautiful work!

John Greenart, your artwork is beautiful and especially
the eye popping vivid colors in all the scenes. Looking forward to more of your work.


Sherryah

I played through the demo but will either wait until it turns up on Big Fish or a disc version is released.

The artwork is lovely, the characters are interesting & there are some great one-liners! The story flowed along nicely but does the game get more challenging in the full version as I found it a tad on the easy side as far as I got?

Chrissie -- it does get more difficult as you progress, but it isn't a "tear-your-hair-out" kind of game at any point.

Well Chrissie, I got stuck more than one time and had to turn to the journal for help. Yes, it does have its moments when you ask yourself what to do next?

Thank you Becky & Sherryah for the comments! I'm glad it's not a 'tear-your-hair out' game but I'm pleased that there will be a little bit more 'bite' later on.

I saw the ending few days ago, and I can recommend this game to every gamers around me.

Hi Dave,
I don't want to sound too negative here because I enjoyed playing Emerald City Confidential very much, but to tell the truth I enjoyed the Blackwell series a whole lot more. Please don't change/upgrade them as that will lose the connection (or whatever it is) that I have there. Different graphics, for better or worse, change the whole atmosphere of the game somehow. Obviously, not everyone (not anyone?) will agree with this point of view, but I just want you to know that you did a great, wonderful job with The Blackwell Legacy and Blackwell Unbound and why tamper with perfection?
On the other hand (and as I read somewhere recently "there is always that other hand") I also hope there will be a sequel to ECC as I like it too, even if second best.

Looking for a hard copy - as is my wont - I had a very pleasant and helpful email "conversation" with PlayFirst.

And a hard copy sounds probable - in a few months time

That's good news Mad. Thanks

Great news!

Hi GBS and Dave,
Just putting my opinion in here, I dis agree I would love to see the graphics updated if possible for blackwell series. I really enjoy the graphics and color in Emerald Confidential and drool just thinking about Joey in the colorful updated not hand drawn graphics. Ok drool is too strong of a word! I think drooling is disgusting and wouldn't drool for anyone!

Sherryah

You mean like these?




I can't believe I still have these. Back when I first planned the Blackwell series (and before I decided Rosa should wear glasses), I wanted everything to be in high resolution. I quickly realized that it would be waaaay too expensive and time consuming. We were at work for several months and all we managed to make were the above character designs and one background. I finally gave up and went with the low-res pixel art instead. It might not have been as pretty, but it got done! The low-res pixel art is so much easier to deal with, especially for a small operation like mine.

Those high-res sprites do look awesome, though. A shame they never got animated!

-Dave

Whoa that is awesome Dave! Yeah Rosa and Joey really do look better in my opinion. However you must do what you can afford. I will continue to buy your games either way.

Better is so obviously in the eyes of the beholder because when I first looked at that Joey and the girl (didn't recognize her as Rosa) I thought these were the new versions and my reaction was, "Oh, NO!" For me, that art just doesn't work at all. I don't know why but it looks too *cold* and even *harsh* to me. The only reason I bought The Blackwell Legacy (since I had read nothing about it) was because I liked a screenshot I ran across somewhere that had Joey and Rosa in a park (I think) talking to a sad ghost girl they were going to help. Immediately I connected with them and had to know more! And the game certainly lived up to that screenshot! Not all games do, I'm sorry to say.

Thanks, Mindy! I have to admit that I'm glad we didn't go with the high-res, as the pixel graphics give it a "raw" feeling that I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. Most assume i did it that way on purpose, but it was a happy accident.

You're welcome, Dave,
Happy accidents = serendipity = something good happens. May your luck continue! (OK, I know it was work too, but luck is also very important in life.)

Mad,
Thanks for the info concerning the possibility of a hard copy. Maybe I am just old school in my line of thinking but I just adore a nice box/dvd case to add to my evr inreasing game collection.