where can i find demo.

THis and all other available demos can always be found by clicking on Latest and Upcoming Adventure games on the top of the forum.

Ana

Smitty, the price of shipping is $4.00 for anywhere in the US. It will be $6.00 if you get a guide along with the game.

Ana,

You have a point about supporting the developers and on second thought the price of the game, compared to others I've bought, is really a bargin considering the fact that a guide is also provided. I am off to the site to pre order the game.

Has anyone who's tried the demo had problems with errors? I understand that the game has to be run as administrator under Vista, and I've enabled that, but I'm still getting tons and tons of errors about "missing files". In fact, there's at least one and sometimes two or even three of these errors with every click of the mouse.

I'd like to find a way to get it to run properly, as this sounds like it is right up my alley.


Edit: Ah, check that. I see the disclaimer on the demo download page that says the demo is not compatible with Windows 7. Just FYI.

Sorry to hear that there are problems with Windows 7 and this game. Even if these "issues" are limited and minor, I'd rather not buy a game with KNOWN issues--I've got enough games now that I have to "tweak" to work. Thanks for informing we "7" users ahead of time.

Mary, as the developer stated before, these were demo issues not game issues.

Ana

Just to clarify: Windows 7 users will experience a few minor issues that will not affect game-play in any way; no tweaks are required to get the game to work. Furthermore, Vista users are NOT required to run the game "as an administrator" in the full game; just in the demo.

The Windows 7 issues basically amount to three things:

- An error message will pop up the first time you quit the game, after it closes. You can tell Windows to not display this message anymore, and it will not pop up again. This message will not harm your computer in any way, nor will it prevent the game from working.

- Music doesn't fade in/out...instead, it cuts directly from one piece to another.

- On rare occasion, audio may cut out a few seconds prematurely. I recommend playing with captions on, just to be safe...although it isn't necessary.

I definitely wanted to point that out on my site upfront, so that no one feels cheated! Of course, if/when the developer of the game engine I used updates the engine to fix these issues, I'll immediately release a patch.

Thanks for the info! Just curious -- which game engine did you use?

The Adventure Maker engine. I'm probably not going to use it anymore for future games, because it is too restrictive...not to mention the aforementioned Windows 7 limitations.

Hi all,
Dave at Interact also has this for pre-order.

The "Wintermute" engine is much better, and without the problems and limitations of "Adventure Maker.".

Yup, that's one of the engines I am looking into!