The Dark Secret of Calming Creek
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
About the game
One night, you awake in your car, asking yourself what you are doing here in this place. You just can't seem to remember what had happened before. Your body aches and you notice that you somehow became entangled in your seat belt. This is where your adventure begins, involving a dark secret in a deserted ghost town...
"The Dark Secret of Calming Creek" is a new visual text adventure with a modern take. It is inspired by classic (horror) text adventures that were once quite popular in the eighties, but also by more recent entries.
It is played like a true classic text adventure; by typing in brief commands, typically existing of at least one verb and a noun, followed by pressing the "Enter" key. But like the more recent text adventures, you cannot really die in this game, so you don't have to worry about starting all over again or saving your game after each new discovery. Also, the game can always be completed at any point, regardless of your actions and decisions. There is also more than just one ending.
Credits
Script, design, programming and testing: Manuel van der Avoird
Additional testing: Bimbarlade
Typewriter sounds: Pakasit21 (at freesound.org)
Font types: "HauntOAE" by Brian J. Bonislawsky of the Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute, "Latin Modern" by GUST e-foundry
Rain, wind and fog effects: "Rain Maker" Unity Asset by Digital Ruby (digitalruby.com), "Simple 2d Fog - Storm - Smoke" Unity Asset by Akilli Mum
Most graphics were based on CCS0 and public domain images from various stock photo sites, including: pxhere.com, pixabay.com, pxfuel.com, unsplash.com, pexels.com, publicdomainpictures.net, stocksnap.io, search.creativecommons.org, and snappygoat.com
Many thanks to all people who were contributing to these sites and letting me use their images.
Created with Unity
Copyright Ededo Entertainment 2020-2021
Enjoy this free game!
Current version is: 1.0.1
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game's great :-) - but i'm a bit stuck - and I'm unsure about something - is the small key for top/middle drawers? because is so - I cannot use it (and I'm struggling to find a way to use gloves :-) )
Anyway - a really enjoyable game - congrats
Thanks for the compliment! :) The small key is for something else you probably have not found yet. Note that you can also enter certain buildings like you can enter and leave your car.
yes - I couldn't enter at least one place I've seen but i've already been inside several others (including one that needs a keycode - in which I've found drawers). But ok - if those keys are needed elsewhere I'll keep looking then :-)
thanks :-)
Let me help you a bit - if you haven't figured it out yet... As you suggested, use the gloves first. The small key is for later use. Use them for something you don't want to touch with your bare hands...