Dimhaven Enigmas - Enter an Abandoned Resort Island in a Tricky Narrative-Driven Puzzle Adventure! Read More & Play The Kickstarter Demo, Free: www.alphabetagamer.com/dimhav... #DimhavenEnigmas
This has some surprisingly tricky puzzles. The one near the end with the Visa cards especially. I've added a little text to the video to try and explain my working on them. :)
Just a heads up to anyone playing, I downloaded the demo, and the visa puzzle changed slightly. DO NOT READ IF YOU WANT TO FIGURE IT OUT FOR YOURSELF. The entire code is significant. A non numerical character has been added. Be sure to use a dash before the last two numbers. I was pulling my hair out trying to figure it out, came back to here to see if I misunderstood part of the puzzle, or missed something.
Looking for lost family member - check, public transport to the place but not out of it - check, password is written on the wall - check, noone there but you still have to go through customs - check, power was already on but you can't proceed without starting up a generator - check, constantly talking to self - check, etc. etc. Instant Classic.
I was enjoying the shit out of this one, the puzzles make you think but aren't so obtuse you need a hint system or a feeling that you missed something somewhere, and each one has some quirks that make you think more than "input code here"- the suitcase being upside down, realizing that since he quit, he did last week's chores, not the week he quit, so the number would be different, and for the Visa, realizing each dot represents a number, and thus subtracting that dot gives you the ones you don't have tickets for. It definitely gave me some Professor Layton levels of "A-ha!" when I was running off, only to figure it out. The calming music, lovely scenery, and hints of something more, plus the AMAZING UI and camera system made problem solving seamless. I love games that let you take notes for its puzzles IN GAME. Made me think of the DS game Another code with being on an island and being able to take pictures and scribble notes. The art style is both pixelated and retro, but also highly stylized and realistic in a way we've seen in recent retro-aesthetic games, the pixelization and shading on top of modern lighting and well placed textures making it look photorealistic from a distance, but framerate savingly low textures up close. The blurriness of textures also helps in design too- important text will be legible, while unimportant fluff text won't- if you're straining your eyes, it's not important, and if it is important and hard to see, you can zoom in. Thus, it's easy to narrow down which bits of information are actually useful. My only gripe is I'd love to be able to rearrange photos- I took a photo of my punched card very early on, and of the other cards as I found them, but they ended up being two pages away from when I got photos of the other documents, making it hard to keep info in mind as I moved from one photo to the other. I love the idea that not only does the protag not know what's going on...but potentially due to mismanagement and the quirky natures of visitors...nobody else knows what's going on either. The schizotech that was probably advanced or cutting edge for its day being a bit ragnarok-proof for 10 years of going to pot but also being quirky, or unstable. the fact they have a special portapotty for a ambassador instead of just putting in a proper bathroom, and the fact you arrive on the island only by skydiving onto a target suggests the peeps in charge are ...a bit eccentric. Also suggests some crazy advanced tech and maybe a good reason why a boat can't just sail up, considering the "wall" Aqueduct an recreations of world wonders. Definitely doin' the kickstarter for this one.
Holy shit, that looks awesome ! I definitely could NOT figure out these puzzles myself, tbh. I hope they're planning on a Switch release, if they do I'll absolutely support the Kickstarter.
ABG not putting the gas cap back on the generator after they started it (and also not putting the gas cap back on the boat motor) made me cringe really really badly
4:02 You know it's the kind of answer you could get from anyone getting a visa, so it's presumably not a negative or imaginary number. A fractional answer is unusual but still in the realm of possibility.
