What Makes You Tick?

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eMTe
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What Makes You Tick?

Post by eMTe »

Nice adventure game with stylish graphics made with - surprise - not AGS, but Lassie engine.

A young man named Nathan is sent by his University to deliver an important message to a retired professor...but while searching around the professor's last known residence, Nathan discovers that he's not the only person seeking the old man and his brilliance.

Developer: Matthias Kempke

Download: http://curlysworldoffreeware.com/game_i ... gameid=244

Official homepage: http://wmyt.deaddog.de/

LASSIE engine: http://lassie.gmacwill.com/lower.php?se ... page=index

License: GNU GPL
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Post by Pater Alf »

The game is quite good, with great graphics and clever puzzles.

Played it some time ago and can't remember why I didn't open a thread about it (most probably I just forgot). I think the only thing that annoyed me, was that there is no fullscreen mode.
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Post by Chroelle »

A some what short but good point and click adventure with lots of suttle humor, and lots of good animations. The traveller is a person which should not be ignored to talk to but afterwards he should be ignored... :lol:
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Post by eMTe »

Too short and easy for my highly sophisticated and unreachable by developers tastes. Storyline makes sense, music together with perfectly matching and detailed graphics creates atmosphere, but game lacks meat and bones - length and puzzles. The latter are purely inventory-based, so it's only matter of time to figure out what to do. Dialogue text is too small imho. Ive found some plot illogicalities and one bug, but very strange - it helps with navigation.

I feel that story drives this game. It isnt easy enough to be called a clickfest, but offers too little to be called very good.

Sounds fair imo.
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Post by Pater Alf »

"What Makes you Tick?" has been added to CWF's database. You can find the download files for Windows and Mac at our game info page:

http://curlysworldoffreeware.com/game_i ... gameid=244