Adventure Game Studio

Can't go pu the elevator

you have to work as an electrician. Try repairing the panel

In the dock 65-A, as I couldn't find a way out in the black room (the one after having oppened the container) I looked at the map, and so I were able to come back to the entrance, but this time, the container was closed, and there's no way to open it.

Strangely, after having modified the key in the close-up, Susan is positioned in the middle of the screen, and sadly, not on a walkable-area... So for the moment, I'm stuck!

If you look at the machine shematics and you right-clic on the museum key, you can't anymore leave the machine shematics close-up.

I opened the panel with the screwdriver and created the insulated wire.  She says she needs to attach the wire with something but I don't know what.  I tried the resin but it doesn't do anything.  That seemed the most logical choice, then I tried all the other inventory items too.

look in the trash-bin

I'm trying to find the code up at the 11th floor. I thought I might find something in the drawer underneath Colins tank, but since I haven't been able to open it, I haven't been able to get it. I'm also looking for numbers, because the message implies that I might get numbers in which to rearange them and figure it out. I can't find a number anywhere, and I've been looking everywhere.

I was figuring out how to get the lift to open and I talked to the security guard and told him I already had opened it, when I hadn't already opened it.

Hint: This puzzle was a rip-off from Runaway... You cannot know the code: You can only know which numbers compose the code. After that, it will be simple trial and error. So you'll have to find a way to discover which keys are pressed - hope this helps as a starting point. If you'll still stuck I'll post the solution later on

How can I find the coordinate numbers I have to enter in the console ? I just need a little clue ! I tried with the numbers I found with the statue description (1945, 15, 288, etc) and I also tried to find a code in Art Mathus' message, but without success.

You got the coordinates right 194515288 (to get the machine working first time). I guess you also have the new filter on the machine. It's supposed to be working now... Does the console say wrong coordinates even with that code? (I didn't mess with that part of the script!!!)

can't figure out how to get the photo from the policeman so I can give it to to the artist. SO how do I get the photo?

-I think it would be better if we could interrupt cut-scenes, cause I hate having to wait until the title animation finish everytime I launch the game.
-When we chose a dialog option, this one should be turned off until next time.
-F9 for the menu isn't practicall in my opinion. ESC would be better.
-Change the music in the newspaper hall entrance!!!! It hurts my ears!
-I first thought that the coordinate we have to enter should be typed like this: "1945 15 288". It would be very helpful if the game accepts the code even with spaces between numbers.

- There are some walkable area missing in the museum entrance hall (at the bottom of the screen)
- When a file is added or edited in the laptop after having chosen a dialog option, if we re-click on the same option, the "Doc added in laptop" appears again.
- After having rescued Collin, later in the game, when we speak with Phil, the conversation always begins with "-You did very good detective work[...]" and after that: "-Hi phil! -Hi susan.".
- I think Peter's cigarette should stop "smoking" in day 2.
- When we are in the other dimension, we don't have anymore objects. Ok. But when we got the device from Art, it isn't displayed in the inventory. We have to clic on the left button some times to see the object (light). The inventory should be updated everytime we lose an object I think.

When you write down the coordinates from the statue and then talk to phil again, the laptop doc gets updated and you loose the numbers from the museum without the chance of getting back there!

You have to hide behind the pillar and use the stone on the (left) window

I've made a copy of the key found in the museum but I don't know what to do with it yet.
I know I'm supposed to visit the museum somehow but currently I've only been able to go to the staff room.
Please give me some hint on what to do next...

After I had opened the post-box and returned the key to the man outside I tried to put back the suit in the hole but got a message that I still need it. I then tried to leave the screen and instantly got the message that the suit should be returned first.
Also the butler keeps saying "The vice-consul is not at the moment" which makes me think "is not what?"...

You'll only be able to visit the museum later... (only after using that key)...
Have you read tuesday's paper? Have you visited the administration meeting room? Have you talked to Phil in day 2?

MMmmm... I was walking around the second room (Newspaper building) for the first time (at the beginning of the game), somewhere around the center of the screen, and suddenly it crushed!

Yes I've been to the administration meeting room and I think I've got everything from there. I've also talked to Phil and read the paper, I've found the way to the dock but I can't enter it since it's locked. I've also got Peters address and i've rescued the editor. A strange thing is that when I searched Peter I found two keys, but after I've opened the second door and was moved back to the office I lost both of them...

You should have the key - the replica - you took from the museum, to use in the little (not that easy to see) key hole next to the door of the warehouse

I took the photo from the police and showed it to Malz. Apart from some info I got nothing. Also got the wax. What do I do next?

Go to the 10th floor of the Newspaper bulding and take a look at the books.

don't forget to LOOK at the photo...

Got the translation from the book, talked to Colin, written the scribings from the green photo downstairs at the newspaper room. But I can't translate it with the book (clicking the notebook on it doens't work). What do I do now?

Try the computer

I've found my way into the lab at the docks and I've got the note about Crusoe, what todo next?

Check (LOOK) the books at the meeting room in the lab and then talk to Phil.

All I've got is that "Above a sky is the truth that points to freedom. I also know that the Kafka collection of books might be helpfull... but not now.

hehe, sorry - the Kafka is somewhat a red herring. You should go to the museum. Do you have the brochure yet? If not, you can get it at the meeting room in the museum... Then look at it...

I'm sorry that I keep on asking but I'm still stuck...
I've been to the museum, and I've got the message from the statue. I know from reading an earlier post in this thread that I'm supposed to enter the numbers from this note in the console. The only console I've found is the one in the lab but that doesn't allow me to enter anything so I must have missed something else...

Please give me a new hint...

I am in the warehouse and have found the strange rod, odd rod and the thin rod.  According to the walkthru I am to use these on the replica strange key.  In close-up I can use the strange rod and odd rod with the key without problem.  But then if I use the thin rod on the key (after using the other two first)it says "that doesn't work".  If I use it first on the key or on the other two rods in inventory I get the same message.  The game will not allow me to leave the close-up of the key.  The only way I can get out is to restore my game.  Can you provide a step by step walk thru for this part in case I am doing something wrong.

I used the polish on the keys; what am I supposed to do to make the meetimg happen?

You have missed an object in the museum obviously

In fact you must click in a specific part of the key.

Nothing will happen before day 2. So you have to finish some things before.

I got the 'edited' and original report, what now? Just tell me where to go, or what to concentrate on, don't tell me how to do it, please.

you're in the most non-linear part of the game, so it's a bit difficult to know what are your next tasks... did you manage to get a way to go to the 11th floor?  

you probably don't have put "something" in the machine...

if you put the three pieces in the right order and right places, it should leave the close-up fine...

as Dorcan says: after you do all your tasks for day 1, day2 will eventually come

Where do I find the code? Is it 1307?

Alright, now I apparently have to get some leads as to who is the kidnapper. The ashtray leads me to suspect Peter, although I am not sure how to get that info into the game.

You cannot know the code! All you can do is find a way to know which keys are pressed when the right code is input. When you get to day 2, you'll be able to know (if you do the right thing) which those keys are, and then it will be simple trial and error.

you're close to going to day1, you still have to find something more. Did you get everything you can from the police? Did you check everything in the newsroom?

I have the cigarette; I quizzed Madji on Obero, and I have tried clicking on practically every spot I could find at every location. I am totally at a loss as to what I should do. Anyway, sorry for being a pest.

There is one more cigarette to find, somewhere in the 11th floor

I'm stuck in the dark room in the warehouse...

turn on the light! - check all "?" (there are 3 of them); the switch somewhat in the center of the screen, a bit to the left.

in total you'll find 2 cigarettes and have to check (LOOK) the smoking ashtray at the newsroom.

In what form do I need to put in the final coordinates (in the end of the game)?

Bug: When trying to load the computer screen while on the console screen. Might be with all zoom items.

the coordinates are all numbers (without spaces or characters - ie. "X" is substituted by any number -  in between)

Indeed there is. Go to the artists' garden, and look at the board by the statue.

I'm stuck, when i finish making the key in the warehouse, the character goes to the center of the screen, i can use the key on the panel and have the box moved to show the hidden passage, but it won't let me go down the steps. what do i do?

did you check LOOK (all) the books (at the meeting room at the lab)? did you talk to Phil - after checking the books?

After I talkwith Madji I'm supposed to look at caribbean picture, get out of the office and use the cell phone to prank call the police. BUt hwen I do that it says that I must do it in police precint, when I AM in the police building!

stand behind column, and throw stone at the clerks window

I found both cigarettes. When I exit a screen she says she's ready to call it a day but need to figure things out and the cigarettes are the main clue. I looked at both, and tryed to use them on each other. Still same thing. According to the walkthrough she's supposed to realize whose cigarettes they were automatically once I have both cigarettes. But she doesn't. Now what?

you should LOOK at the (smoking) ashtray in the newsroom

In the ending option where you check the device and get the numbers to use in the machine, is there numbers you put instead of the "x" that take you to a different universe or does it always end in the room becoming strange black & white?  If so, what numbers do you put there?

First of all, the puzzle with the coordinates at the end. A lot of people seem to have trouble with those, and that was also the only time I got really stuck. See, to me coordinates aren't just a series of numbers, there are at least two of them (x and y, longitude and latitude) and perhaps as much as four or five when we're talking other dimensions. Anyway,  I think people get stuck because they don't expect it to be just one long number. Maybe you could just put a "format of entry: XXXXXXXXX" or something similar along with the "enter coordinates" prompt.
And on those lines, here comes the random thoughts: Because I was having trouble with the coordinates, I started thinking that they might be real world coordinates (might as well be real world coordinates as years, couldn't they? neither seems to make too much sense unless the scientist put the museum sign up himself). The Sea Encyclopedia was a real red herring. Especially since you put it in the office as well as the lab, and had the player character comment that she didn't know what to look for, at least not right now. I kept thinking that I should found out were the actual Robinson Crusoe island was and find it on a map, or maybe find the coordinates for the place where the freedom statue was found. But now that Phil was gone and I couldn't find a copy of Robinson Crusoe, I just resorted to entering the numbers in any combination and finally found the straight ahead answer.
Speaking of Phil, I know that you've admitted that there's not much characterization of any of the NPCs. But especially Phil struck me as odd. He was just this know-it-all info-machine of a man, standing around, waiting to help you. I really expected him to turn out to be the master villain, because he was just TOO friendly and helpful, never asking for anything in return. Maybe you could have used your laptop and the books in the office more, like you did in the beginning, instead of letting Phil know so much. And while I remember - the laptop and the notepad carried pretty much the same function - sometimes notes got added to the pad, sometimes they got added to the computer. The notepad wasn't used much either, for the largest part of the game it contained only two pages of notes. If not for the need to draw the symbols by hand, it could have been eliminated.
It would have been nice to actually meet Peter earlier in the game. His cigarette was always there, smoking away, but he was never to be seen. It's a major flaw in many games, that you never get to meet the badguys before your final confrontation with them, but especially seeing as Peter was a mole within the office, he should have been presented as a nice guy first.
The architecture was cool, futuristic in a modernist sort of way. Reminded me of Truffauts Fahrenheit 451. I'm not so sure that Le Corbusier would be happy that you turned his Villa Savoye into a warehouse though :)

The puzzles were - in one word - GREAT. Very logical, not too easy and not too hard. I got really stuck only two times (first one when I failed to find the cigarette in the vase on 11th floor, second, as I said, with the coordinates). And the vase made sense when I retraced my steps and read her comment about the other cigarettes. I really liked the nailpolish puzzle, but now I'll have to rethink my own game - I had a VERY similar puzzle with a keypad in mind. I thought the whole thing with the symbols on the painting and all that was a bit contrived (maybe there's part of the plot I didn't get, but why would they even think of hiding the filter in the newspaper building?) but I suppose that's the kind of stuff people DO in adventure games. I wouldn't cry if there wasn't a single puzzle with translations of strange symbols ever again though. Maybe because it reminds me of the glory days of copy protections :) (KQ5, KQ6, Indy3 etc. etc.). Although I supposed it worked quite well in GK1 (if only because of a good interface, and that you actually had to compose a message while filling in the blanks yourself).
What else is there to say? It was a thrilling ride playing it. Just like being back in the good old days. I'm really looking forward to your next project, especially if you spend more time on the characters. The story and the whole philosophical aspect was fascinating. I think I'll replay the game just to make sure that I understood it all.
Finishing off, a single question: You find two keys on Peter, but lose them both after finding Colin. What is the second one for? The P.O. Box?