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Mystery of the Dark Manor, 1992 Amstrad text adv, on Android

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:56 pm
by Mark Eaton
Hi all

I just wanted to let people know that I have ported another one of my father's games, Mystery of the Dark Manor, to Android devices. This uses the same engine that was programmed for Moonbase 3 so should provide a consistent user experience.

Mystery of the Dark Manor was originally released in the UK in 1992.

Its features include:
* Different font sizes
* Text to speech
* Speech input
* Android gestures to swipe the screen when moving in the different compass directions

Based on feedback from people I have made some updates to Moonbase 3.

As such both games now include:
* more helpful information when starting
* training video (more for those not overly familiar with text adventure games)
* autosave
* save/load game lists are timestamped and sorted by most recent saved first
* bug fixes


The demo for both games link here:

https://market.android.com/details?id=Mystery.demo
https://market.android.com/details?id=Moonbase3.demo


The full versions link here:

https://market.android.com/details?id=Mystery.Complete
https://market.android.com/details?id=M ... 3.Complete


I appreciate the feedback people give to me on these games, it has helped make them better.


Kind regards

Mark Eaton

Re: Mystery of the Dark Manor, 1992 Amstrad text adv, on And

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:10 am
by Juan
The solution to this game is in the CASA database, courtesy of yours truly.

Re: Mystery of the Dark Manor, 1992 Amstrad text adv, on And

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:33 am
by Mark Eaton
Yes I used that to confirm that I coded the Android version correctly :-)