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Somebody on Youtube asked where to play the first installment, do you guys have a link? I wasn't able to find anything in the games database.

I would explain it like:
To be honest it was meant to be confusing  - You can take a little peek about that some pages earlier if you want.

Like it is done in some famous movies, why not do the second part first (and have some fun, while they are searching for the first part which might be the story about how Merrick became a vampire).  

In this experimental game the second story is told first (how Merrick became draculated) and maybe sometime there will be made part one.  8)



Edit:
Since I am only a little part of the swarm withot knowledge of development I may be allowed to ask (because I was wondering a bit about it):
Is is ,,normal" to upload a betatest to youtube to be seen from the public before releasing a game

@Prozail:
What you did shouldn't be possible - sorry.

So please try to click/use ...

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... the chair/Merrick's body and read the reply (and repeat it) ... 

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... then you will be able to go on.

@desimaui:
There are two items to grab out there.

If you already took them, ...

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... then you have something to make a pipe of in your inventory.

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You should take a closer look around in ...

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the backyard

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Thank you so much for this dkh.
                   
This is really interesting to watch and gives good clues for the swarm, what is needed most to get the game polished and where to put some comments of Merrick to make the goal more clear... so you did a good work!

If it really was a female, she wouldn't leave a nice pizza-guy back alone. 
So I prefer it was a guy with a high voice and if he doesn't want to check, who is in the green zone, it can't be a security zone (or he hates pizza, which is rare for guys)

> press the green button to see what happens

Great pics, kconan!

But caution - otherwise WHAM becomes megalomaniac,
because it's not that far to this:



(translation: May the games begin!)

I find them great - the peculiar motion fits beautifully.  
The hair (only in the front view) look as if it's not rooted in the head. I would imagine that it works better when they swing to the right and left, but are otherwise attached to the head.

> reply, that you are Joe, the pizza-guy and that you have been left behind, when all of the staff get shot at the green level

Here we go:

Biggest points are already postet. So I only have a bit and some points I would like:

Well, if you play it like you would do it the first time, you can find very special vampire things.  

I would like some more hotspots with replies (i.e. for the bonzai, the switch in the yard, ...) to make it a bit more difficult to solve the prob/find what's needed.

Watching Redbeard swinging the broom the whole time is a bit strange for me. Is it possible to let him wag it only, when Merrik comes near to him?

I would love to see „little Blondie“ in the ending scene with fangs.  


Edit:

The pine cone can be used to give you the ability to survive forest fires, but if you miss it you can use a less tasty cockroach which gives you the ability to survive nuclear winter, and this results in an ever so slightly different ending. 

:o I always ate both - so I tortured poor Merrick, more, as needed  :
Ã,,hem - let's say: I take back my complaint - with an expression of regret 

You have been very diligent, Baron  :o â€" good work again!

I am on my way to work right now, so I will have to take a closer look to it this eve, but I had to take a short peek right now. 


Looking at the doorlock (first room) gives you still the reply two times. 

Ah, it's probably residual code from the on_load set up that's being retriggered when you re-enter.  Frankly, I'm not sure if leaving should be an option in the real game, but I can zap that bug easily enough in the mean time.  Keep 'em coming!

Agree. the puzzles before hand get you too that room with everything you need to complete the game.

I think you have to be able to go back, because if you don't know the riddles, you might need/have to search i.e. for the cone pine -  or stay in there forever. 

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Oh yes, his head is huge, for sure 

Since we're on our way home, do we know where we are?
How far is the next city/place for calling help/home?
Is it still night/dark?
Can we see the reason for the crash or do we know?
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> examine surroundings

Wishing you all a good time „over there“       

(Hopefully we'll get some interesting stories/pics of this family-meeting  )

@ Icey:
Yepp, would be cool   (... and maybe a little bit taller ... what ever you can think of to make them more "belonging together" and not like strangers, who meet somewhere â€" you know, what I mean? I have a bit trouble, explaining it in english, sorry! )

@ Cleanic:
I am just going to learn "GIMP"  

[YIPPY - I - YEAH! . . . . . . . SWARMING-ALERT!!]

YIPPY - I - YEAH!   .  .  .     .   .   .   .    SWARMING-ALERT!!

A lot of cool entries!

... am i part of the swarm yet?  

I am pretty sure, that you have been draculated already.  

I like, what you have done (and wanted to see it in action). For those of you, who are curious, too   -  



When watching the scientists in one screen ...

             

I am a bit worried, that “little Blondie” will get hurt as soon as “Redbeard” starts talking


@ Icey:
You draw a nice character and I don't have a real problem with the blonde scientist being so young.
I can live with the differend lab coats they are wearing, too (even if it is unusual â€" but the whole game is unusual, so why not)
- but I think they should have their ID-cards in the same style, don't you?
Do you have time and lust to make him a bit more fitting to his colleague (but without loosing the style you gave him)?

@ BIG GC:
Just WOW!  :o

> and take his ID badge

Well, of course you have my permission to send the screenies to your coder.
They have been done while using Vista/IE9.

maybe there is something in the news about the situation in this building - we don't know anything about where we are or what they are doing here and what has happened

> switch through the chanels for news

@ Buckethead:   ... there is much more