02.Dec.2023
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Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor
After The Curse of Rabenstein and Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut), Stefan Vogt has published another text adventure with graphics: "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (YouTube video). Here, the player takes on the role of writer Thomas King and his wife Cora, who move into a remote Scottish manor house a few days before Christmas 1986. In search of inspiration for his next book, Thomas begins to research the history of Blackwood Manor and discovers a dark secret that goes back to the time of the great Scottish witch hunts.
The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor was written in Infocom's Z-machine format XZIP. The game has three different endings, a bad ending, a neutral ending and a good ending, depending on the player's choices. It is very likely that the player will not reach the good ending on the first playthrough, even though it is possible. Reaching the bad or neutral ending is part of the experience and helps the player to understand the true intentions of some of the protagonists and the consequences of the decisions made, so that these can be reconsidered.
A physical version will be available soon and can be pre-ordered from poly.play. The box will resemble Infocom's original packaging from back then. (dr)
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