About This Game Fantastic hidden object puzzle adventure game from the creators of Enigmatis and Grim Legends!Crime Secrets: Crimson Lily is a captivating blend of hidden object challenges, puzzle solving, and daring detective work.When a grim murder interrupts a private detective's vacation at the very gate to the hotel at which she was going to stay, she puts her plans for R&R on hold and sets out to do what she does best: solve violent crimes. All she has to go on is a single clue: a mysterious paper lily attached to the victim's frozen body. Could it be the killer's calling card?Crime Secrets: Crimson Lily features more than 30 stunning hand-painted hidden object scenes set within a snowy environment!Cut off by a blizzard and left to her own devices, the protagonist will need to put her detective skills to work as she questions possible witnesses, searches for clues, and follows a trail that leads her deep into the dirty dealings of a small town filled with big fish and other enigmatic characters.Find clues in the game's unique Detective Mode to solve the mystery!Was the tragic death of a young journalist, Lilly, a few years back only an accident, or was it somehow connected to the mysterious new murder? Is the killer trying to send a sinister message? If so, why, and to whom?Surprising puzzles and unexpected twists!As it turns out, there's more to the grim story than meets the eye, and not everyone at the hotel is who they appear to be. Will the private investigator manage to track down the culprit?Take the game with you wherever you go!Sign up to receive our newsletter and play new hidden object puzzle adventures every month!Captivating adventures, thrilling stories, impossible tales, and eerie mysteries await in our catalog of hidden object puzzle games!Look for "Artifex Mundi" to discover more hidden object puzzle adventure games like this one!FeaturesMore than 30 hand-painted hidden object scenes set within a snowy environment!Find clues in the game's unique Detective Mode!Surprising puzzles and unexpected twists!Test your reasoning skills in challenging mini games!Determine the killer's identity at all costs! 6d5b4406ea Title: Crime Secrets: Crimson LilyGenre: Adventure, CasualDeveloper:One More LevelPublisher:Artifex MundiRelease Date: 14 Jul, 2016 Crime Secrets: Crimson Lily Best Crack Beautiful artwork, interesting gameplay style . If you have played other games from this company, you will find this one easier (on casual mode, I have not tried the other modes). The acheievements are also more reasonable, as you do not need to play through multiple times to get them all. This is a great game, although the storyline wasn't as good as the other games I've played from Artifex Mundi. It wasn't original or interesting. Still, I would reccomend this for point-and-click game fans or fans or crime/detective games.. First off let me say, I'm a huge fan of hidden object games. Love them!! But this one...I don't know. I CANNOT stand the voices. They are so monotone and boring. Seriously, I'm falling asleep playing this game that I had to stop playing for the time being. Besides the puzzles, music and storyline, the voices are equally as important in games like this. It's what sets the tone and mood of it immersing players into the world. But in this game, it's almost like listening to some kind of robotic voice with no emotions.Please redo the voices in this. It's what breaks this game, otherwise I would give it a thumbs up.. Stone age of hidden objects game. Still good but not as good as we are used to.. Short, just 2 hours. Good HOG, and it has the Mahjong alternative for those who'd rather play that than do object searches. There are a few misspellings, only one of which I found significant: One of the objects in a search list is Bowl; you really need to find a Bow.. For the price, this game is definitely not worthwhile. The animations are...not good. The English translations are, at times, way off. There were a couple of hidden object scenes I had to complete by random clicking because the clues were not correctly translated. Other than that, the puzzles were pretty simple, which is nice if you're tired and headachy but probably wouldn't be so nice if you're alert. And it was quite a short game, even for a HOG (my actual play time is much less than what Steam shows, as I got called away from my computer and left the game up for several hours). If this is part of a bundle, I'd say go for it, but otherwise, try a different game.. I got this game as part of a bundle - I personally would not pay the full price for it. Overall I enjoyed this game and think it is worth a play if you enjoy hidden object games. The artwork and music were both well-done and the hidden object scenes were not too difficult - though I wish there had been more. Achievements are relatively easy to complete and I was able to get 100% completion. I finished the game in 3 hours.The game felt very short to me. This is a personal preference, but I like hidden object games that require some "exploring" and backtracking to previously visited rooms. This game did not really require that except in a couple of cases, so it made the game feel very short because you complete all tasks in one room and then just move onto the next and do the same. Again, I recognize this is a personal preference but I thought I would mention it.There is also some awkward English and typos throughout which I do feel detracts from these types of games.. I really enjoyed this game. As other hidding object games some parts can get a little bit weird but it's ok this time. Two small points to note are the time and the language. If you play in english, I guess, everything is ok. I played it in german and the translation mostly worked but not always, what was a problem in the hidden object games, when you searched an object, which didn't exist. ISecondly, I played for 4 hours now, and I did the game 2 times. Otherwise, I did it 2 times, so can see, that I liked it this much.So now the really big pros and the game. You are detective on holiday. Unfortunately your work follows you and you've got to solve a crime scene, which gets pretty dangerous. You have to talk to the people in the hotel to find out what happened, which I liked because you got some information about the character. The best part of the game is the detective work, where you have to find some evidence to find out what happened. These scenes are a plus to the usual HOG scenes, which exist too. I can just recommend the game and I hope there will be another part with another case :-) Meet Artifex Mundi at Gamescom & PAX West 2018!: Do you want to meet the creators of your favorite games in person? Then you should definitely visit us during Gamescom in Cologne & PAX West 2018!You will have one of a kind opportunity to play our two latest projects ahead of release:My Brother Rabbit (release: Fall 2018) is a beautifully drawn exploration adventure and puzzle game set in a surreal world that mixes reality with a child’s imagination. It is scheduled to release this Fall. Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love (release: 2019) is a satirical point-and-click adventure that takes you out of your bourgeoisie comfort zone and throws you right in the middle of a Cold War class struggle to the death – or until you surrender your toilet paper. We'll be a part of big Polish Booth on both events - and we will have lots of surprises for you! If you want to know more about both events, please visit Gamescom website[www.gamescom.global] and PAX West website[prime.paxsite.com] See you there!. SOLVE THE MYSTERIOUS CASE IN THE CITY OF CRIME!: Follow the game or add it to your wishlist to stay updated!. ENTER THE ANCIENT LABYRINTH!: Playing as Pamela Cavendish, you will embark on the greatest adventure of your life into the fascinating world of antiquity. Together with her colleague and fellow scholar Dr. Robert McNamara, our protagonist will follow the trail of a mysterious organization whose members believe in the actual existence of the mythical Minotaur and are in fact preparing to bring back the beast after more than 2,000 years. Pamela has to find out what really happened during the epic encounter between the demigod Theseus and the beast Minotaur eons ago. She needs to learn the truth about the descendant of Ariadne, the only human capable of thwarting the cult’s plans and stopping the beast of the labyrinth once and for all. Will she manage to defeat the malevolent cult and stop the legendary horror from returning to our world?Endless Fables will be available at 40% discount for a limited time after the release.http://store.steampowered.com/app/504000?beta=0. A BRAND NEW ADVENTURE IN THE WORLD OF ALCHEMY AND MAGIC!: Add the game to your wishlist to stay updated!. Reconcile the twin kingdoms!: Add the game to your wishlist and stay updated!. The creative process behind creating the locations in Irony Curtain: This time we’d like to acquaint you with the creative process that goes into creating the scenes in the game. Here, for example, we have one of the first locations in the game – the conference Evan attends in order to present a speech on Matryoshka. If you'd like to support the game, don't forget to add Irony Curtain to wishlist!1. First off, we begin with a very rough concept art - mapping out the placement of active elements of the scene (the interactive parts that will contain moving objects), and on this, we build the gameplay (with placeholder dialogues and text and placeholder screens instead of minigames). This is usually the fastest part of the process. If we don’t like it or something doesn’t play out quite as well, we re-do parts of it until everything fits the way we want it to.PS. Drawing each location out by hand means, that we have concept arts for each and every location in the game! Would you like to see them as bonus material?2. After the sketch is completed we create a mood board, which sets the color schemes for all locations (we wanted it to not only be cohesive throughout the whole game but also reflect the passing of time – morning, afternoon, evening, etc). This is possible thanks to the “macrolocation” system we have – once you go through a set of locations you will not return to them again, so we can give you this sense of passing time. 3. Based on the concept we then proceed to fill in the details – this leads us to a complete lineart. A lineart is (just like the name suggests) a picture that has only the outlines, usually in black. If you haven’t seen one, it resembles a page taken out of a child’s coloring book.4. When we’re happy with the result we create a color palette from the mood board and roughly place them on the lineart. At this stage, we check out if everything works together – if the scene conveys what we wanted to say and if it’s also pleasant for the eye. 5. Then come the flat colors – literally filling in the line art with flat colors. Just one color layer, no shadows, no color blending. You could think of it as colorful paper cutouts placed on the lineart.6. The second-to-last step is creating all the shading, light reflections, and all small details that will make-or-break the picture, bringing it to life and helping us tell a story even before there’s a single word spoken or even before we introduce any of the main characters.7. Then, of course, with games comes the step of creating the animations, different states of interactive elements (etc. closed/open doors), etc. But that’s a different part of this tale. So, did you enjoy this little tour? Would you like to see more from Irony Curtain?. Why we've changed the art style of Irony Curtain?: Comrades! Some time ago we showed you how Irony Curtain looked in the early prototype phase and how it looks like now. Today we’d like to talk a little bit more about the reasons behind the change and the whole creative process. It’s no doubt that Irony Curtain came a long way from the times when it was just a prototype called simply ‘Matryoshka’. There are three main reasons why we’ve decided to simplify the art style: 1. The previous style looked great but it didn’t play well. Creating dialogues in Irony Curtain: Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love is a game full of different characters talking to each other. In fact, some puzzles can be solved only by choosing the right dialogue option. That’s why in today’s episode of Behind the Irony Curtain we’d like to tell you more about the process of creating dialogues in our game. Writing dialogues is just the beginning of the process. There are over 5471 lines of text in Irony Curtain and every one of them needs to be properly inserted into the game, to make sure all characters say exactly what Game Designer wants, in the exact time and place. Here’s how it looks in Irony Curtain: 1. Every game character usually has more than one dialogue line. One of the ways to operate it is to use logical TRUE/FALSE flags. These flags helps us determine the state of knowledge of a specific character or whether an event of which the character speaks has already taken place. 2. Each dialogue is built in the editor as a separate “tree” consisting of successive “nodes” connected with each other by lines defining the order in which the dialogue of the character appears. 3. To be honest, “writing” dialogues is just filling the form fields. It looks more or less like this: Create a new dialogue in the editor and give it a name. Then inform Level Designer about the circumstances in which it should be launched (eg. when Evans checks on the Prisoner); Create the first Node (a red dot on the editor screen) and enter the necessary information (into the form on the right side of the screen): Who is talking The Dialogue text (or several dialogues if they should be drawn) (Optional) The Dialogue text when repeating the talk (Optional) If the dialogue happens not on the location but on zoom – whose head and on which side should it be displayed (Optional) Text display time (it’s useful when testing the game without recorded Voice Overs which determine the text display time in the finished game) Where the text should appear on the screen (e.g. over the character or over the radio speaker) (Optional) Actions to be made before or after the dialogue (e.g. acquiring an item or activating a logic flag “character X already knows about Y") Create another dialogue node and fill it in Connect the first node with the second one Rinse & Repeat ;)4. After creating the entire “tree” for all the dialogues we generate so-called “keys”. Keys consist of the location number, dialogue name, text position in the tree and the first letter specifying the character. 5. Thanks to this we can assign a specific Key to a Node, and not just the text. All texts with Keys can be saved to a shared Excel sheet with different languages. As a result, the different language versions of the game have the appropriate dialogues. That is all in this episode of Behind the Irony Curtain. We hope you enjoyed it and don't forget to add Irony Curtain to wishlist!https://store.steampowered.com/app/866190/Irony_Curtain_From_Matryoshka_with_Love. Our love letter to point and clicks - launching tomorrow!: We love classic point and click adventures. That’s why we decided to write a love letter to classic p’n’cs - in the form of Irony Curtain. Creating a game that channeled our nostalgia and allowed us to include our collective experiences of the communist regime in Poland in a humorous way was a dream come true. We believe there still are people who love this particular genre as much as we do – and maybe that there are more who will be hooked on point and clicks after playing the right game, hence the mixture of nostalgia and improvements we presented in Irony Curtain. Since the story is one of the most important elements in classic p'n'c games , so we made sure to have a well-written plot and interesting characters - Irony Curtain is about a goofy pen-pusher who gets tangled up in the spy-standoff between two powers. We wanted Evan to be likeable while also making him Guybrushingly funny – he's an unwilling troublemaker and works really well juxtaposed with all the other characters, such as the ruthless Leader or Anna - who's smart, capable, mysterious... We wanted strong personalities to match the story and then we peppered it all with puzzles. A lot of puzzles. And when we say “a lot” - we mean it. And mini-games too. This is where our HOPA background comes in – we're really good in mini-games. They’re not a classical p’n’c mechanic, but we know they enrich the gameplay, allow to pace it and also are a good excercise for the brain. It’s also a tribute to our legacy – we even have one hidden object scene in Irony Curtain as an easter egg! And believe us when we say - there’s plenty easter eggs for you to enjoy – try to find out if there really are 1951 hidden around Matryoshka. You can also read our previous Steam announcement on the topic here. That’s another point where the past intertwines with the present, bringing in jokes for both the fan of The Lord of the Rings and F.E.A.R alike. We strived to create a game both familiar but also somehow innovative – that's why the interface is exactly as you know it from other games. If you’re a p’n’c player, you’ll know your way around from the getgo – the inventory, the icons telling you what kind of an action is available, etc. As both players and creators we know that being frustrated is not fun – the game is supposed to be a challenge (like in the old, golden days) but at the same time we wanted the solutions to be more reasonable than “use chickend and bucket to make a helicopter”. The point is to get the satisfaction of solving a riddle using your brain, not a walkthrough. The puzzles in Irony Curtain can be ambigous, challenging but never absurd (and some of them can even be solved in multiple ways). The only absurdity you’ll encounter is the historical absurds that we really lived through. Yes, bribing people was normal. Yes, TP was a precious commodity and we stood in unending queues. But we hope that thanks to this you’ll not only get some mind excercise but also will learn about the oddities we had to live through back in the day. When we pitched the game as ‘Deponia meets Papers, please’ we were hoping to add value to the genre we loved talking about topics we cared about. And we believe we did. We hope we brought to the table all the things classical p’n’cs represent: humour, wit, riddles and story that’ll draw you for long hours (up to 10 😉) so that the fans of classical point and click adventures will feel at home with Irony Curtain – and those who are new to the genre will get hooked! Irony Curtain premieres on the 16/05 https://store.steampowered.com/app/866190/Irony_Curtain_From_Matryoshka_with_Love/
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