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You wake up in a dark room with a throbbing pain in your head and no memory of your past. You have no idea who you are, where you are, how you got there, or even what year it is. The only clue in your possession is an ornate matchbox with the initials “A.C.” written on it. You strike a match and the room becomes bright, with the shadows and dim light gleefully dancing together on the walls.

You have but one objective on your mind now: to find an escape from this place.

















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This is a short, finished puzzle game with about 30 to 45 minutes of gameplay, depending on your simple puzzle solving capablities. There are no battles or party members to pick-up. There's just a simple "interact with your enviorment" gameplay. If you ever get stuck, feel free to PM me, and I'll drop you a hint. ^__^

Enjoy!

Awesome

Zylos, MSN me if your on.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention. There's two endings: a good one and a bad one. However, in order to get the good ending, you'll need information found only in secret areas. I've left a map in the game that will show you where the secret passages are that will lead to the three secret areas in the game. Two of these secret areas will contain the information you need. Good luck!

Downloading now, this looks kick-ass!

Lol, yeah, I don't often get the opportunity to move a topic, so I jumped at the chance to put it in it's proper board.


Why, thank you!

Playing it.
Loving it.

EDIT:Can't find the secret area map! ;-;

I'll give you a hint. It's somewhere in the library. It's visible, but not obvious.

I found the secret area! Guys, look behind the giant cow in there, it so obvious!

this is a joke, plzthx : D

Downloading now, should be an interesting experience.

Is the good ending when you know the womans name... and input it correctly.?

If so, then ya, I got the good ending.
Didn't find any use for the cheese though.

Lol, the cheese is a joke item that I added on a whim. BTW, there's another joke item in that same room, but it's much harder to find.

Zylos;
           
You may get your wish with your joke item, *****Prize. (Not to ruined what it is.)

I hope I got her name right... Hmm
I love the game mate!
+rep

*downloads

What is the "RMRK SHOW"?

My game is being reviewed for a show? Woohoo!

That's not a problem, it's a puzzle.

Great game, Zylos.

You can't play the piano BECAUSE the sheet music is backwards. But the solution is easy. Just keep going and you're bound to figure out what to do.


Thank you!

http://www.angel-spire.com/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=1401&view=findpost&p=26824

;D

Haha you won $50 almost by default. Nice! That is easy cash.

And it's all gonna get spent on Ramen Noodles for a meal-planless year of college. 

Anyway, thank you so much, RMXPokemaniac!

Ramen > Other food              in college.

Attention!

I've heard a number of people say that they got the bad ending, but because they DIDN'T SAVE, they don't want to replay through the entire game just to find the other ending. One person even criticized my game for "not forcing the player to save before the ending and allow players to backtrack". Obviously, I am not going to do that because 1) it ruins the flow of the game to force the player to save, and because 2) the main character distinctly warns you before the ending that once you climb the final ladder, you will not be able to turn back.

So, this is a friendly piece of advice for all of you: save your game at least once or twice instead of complaining about it.

Sorry for the late reply, I kinda forgot about playing this.

Man, it took me three tries before I was able to figure out the name. What's with the non-plot related room? Made me laugh so hard. XD

I was going to make it a plot-related room with the papers on the table being an important manuscript written by Mdm. Trelawney and a giant portait of her and her husband, but then at the last second I literally said "Oh Jesus Christ, f#&% it!" and added whatever I felt like adding. The result, as quoted by one of my testers, was simply this: "wtf? lol!"

YAY!

Thankies.

Congrats Zylos, on POTM.

Congrats Zylos, for a short game it was enjoyable.

Wow, this game looks amazing! This is definitely something I'm going to download.

Also, what's PotM? Nevermind. Congrats, Zylos!

NAMKCOR's "special edition" of Insanity reminded me of something I've been thinking about doing for a while now.

I've been getting a lot of PM's lately asking how I made certain puzzles or events in Shadows. So, I've uploaded an unencrypted  version of the game so that people can take it apart and see how it works. Let you guys see for yourselves what I used to make the puzzles and how they are made, or where I screwed up and made something overly complicated that should have been simple. I've even left a huge mistake in there on one of the blue torches that only one person ever noticed (though I'm not saying which one it is), and one of the rooms that I was going to throw in but ran out of time to make.


http://www.sendspace.com/file/25bc4d


There's only two things I ask.

One: Please do not even think about taking out my name and putting yours in it, or copying something verbatim from the game. I've already posted the game on a number of RPG Maker sites, and odds are that anywhere you upload it, someone who knows that it's not yours will see it and tell me about it. But I'm trusting that you guys won't do anything stupid like that.

Two: Please do not just go in and grab the resources I used. I took a lot of time tracking down the exact resources I needed and editted most of them to better suit my needs. If you just go and grab stuff that you think you could use in your game, you are most likely grabbing something that you don't know who made and was probably editted specifically for my game. Almost everything you see in there you can go and find on your own easily enough, or could just ask me where I got it from.

Other than that, have fun.

Would you mine if I stole a puzzle or two from your game?

You can use the puzzles in my game if you want, but don't just rip it out of my game and place it in yours. Use my game as a reference and make it on your own, customizing it to your game. It'll not only be more compatible with your game that way, but you might learn something from it.

okay, but the two I want are going to be hard to customize >_<

hi zylos, i really love your games style. I've passed Shadows already, and found even the medal, and the cheese also the good ending =)

Please keep doing more games, i really want to play other games you've made!!!
*love your style, i loce shadows gameplay to find secrets etc, and also Midnight project, survival horror =D*

I'll be waiting =)

*keep the good work

Wow, that was a massive bump, but, uh, thanks. :3