| Aurora: The Secret Within | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Developer(s) | BluMiAl Studios |
| Publisher(s) | Lexicon Entertainment |
| Release |
|
Aurora: The Secret Within is a 2008 adventure game developed by Italian company BluMiAl Studio and published by Lexicon Entertainment. [1]
| Aurora: The Secret Within | |
|---|---|
| | |
| Developer(s) | BluMiAl Studios |
| Publisher(s) | Lexicon Entertainment |
| Release |
|
Aurora: The Secret Within is a 2008 adventure game developed by Italian company BluMiAl Studio and published by Lexicon Entertainment. [1]
Italian development company BluMiAl Studio was founded by Michel Palucci and Alessio Restaino; Aurora was their debut project. [2] The game was designed in the Adventure Maker program. [3]
The game was originally promised for the summer of 2007. [4] In addition, a Russian-language version to be released in Russia, the CIS countries and the Baltics was projected for December 2007. [5] On March 13, 2008, Aurora: The Secret Within hit gold status and was set for a release date of April 25, 2008. [6] The game was released by Tri Synergy in North America. [7]
The plot revolves about the UFO crash at Roswell. [6] A detective, named Pileggi, has been called in to investigate the disappearance of a farmer. [8]
The game is a point and click adventure game from the perspective of the main characters. [4] The game's style and theme bow to the Tex Murphy series. [9] Players navigate in the style of Myst . [3]
Prior to release, Adventure Archiv was fascinated how the developers would have brought a new spin to the oft-adapted story of Roswell. [3]
Technopolis felt the game came across as amateurish. [9] Adventure Classic Gaming thought the game's confused localization - half in English and half in Italian was a great hindrance to its enjoyment from players. [10] Adventure Archiv described the title as a fair debut independent release, and encouraged the development team to keep working on their talents. [11] Adventure Planet thought the game was an "absolutely artisanal, experimental product" made by two people on no budget, though appreciated their audacity. [12] Adventure Treff discouraged the game even to adventure fans. [13]
The game was "hugely successful in Europe and Asia". [14]
Scratches is a 2006 mystery horror adventure video game developed by Nucleosys and released by Got Game Entertainment. It is the first commercial adventure game ever to be made in Argentina.
Hopkins FBI is a 1998 point-and-click adventure game from MP Entertainment, most famous for very large amounts of gore. A sequel titled Hopkins FBI 2: Don't Cry, Baby, involving Hopkins having to rescue the President's daughter, was announced but never released.
Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy is an adventure game for Microsoft Windows, developed by Frogwares and released in 2002. The player controls Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, as he investigates the mysteriously abandoned mansion of British archeologist Lord Montcalfe. It is the first in the Sherlock Holmes series of adventure games developed by Frogwares and Viva Media, and was ported to the Nintendo DS in 2009.
Echo: Secrets of the Lost Cavern is a computer adventure game released in July 2005. It was developed by Kheops Studio and published by The Adventure Company. It is very similar to previous Kheops Studio games; the interface and gameplay are almost identical to Return to Mysterious Island. The player takes the role of Arok, a 15-year-old European Homo sapiens from the Paleolithic period.
Jack Keane is a 2007 point-and-click adventure game developed by Deck13 Interactive, published by 10tacle Studios, and digitally distributed by Legacy Interactive. Jack Keane is an adventure game in the spirit of Monkey Island, with references to well-known computer games and classic films. Players assume the role of a hapless, swashbuckling adventurer and accompany him in his travels across 15 locations throughout London, Cape Town, and Tooth Island. The game contains various humorous references, e.g. regarding Indiana Jones, the Monkey Island adventure game series, the computer game Ankh, Star Wars, the TV series Lost and the Lord of the Rings films.
Egypt 2: The Heliopolis Prophecy is an adventure video game developed and published by Cryo Interactive for the PC and PlayStation in 2000. It was released for Mac OS X in May 2012. Egypt 2 follows Egypt 1156 B.C. and is followed by Egypt III.
The Secret of the Nautilus is a 2002 adventure video game, inspired by Jules Verne's 1870 science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. It was developed by Cryo Interactive and released for Microsoft Windows based PCs.
Diabolik: The Original Sin is an adventure game developed by Italian studio Artematica Entertainment and published by Black Bean Games in 2009 for PlayStation 2, Wii, Windows, Nintendo DS, and PSP, based on the Italian comic book series Diabolik.
Tale of a Hero is a fantasy puzzle point-and-click adventure game developed by Czech company Future Games. It was released in 2009. The game uses AGDS Engine. The story was influenced by myths about King Arthur and Beowulf. The game has never been released in English-language markets, but the Italian version includes full English voice acting and an English subtitle patch was later released.
Time Paradox is a point-and-click adventure game developed and released by Flair Software for the MS-DOS in 1996 only in Europe.
Murder In The Abbey is an adventure video game, developed by the Spanish studio Alcachofa Soft and released in 2008. The game is inspired by the 1987 title La Abadía del Crimen.
The Legend of the Prophet and the Assassin is an adventure game by Arxel Tribe. It is the sequel to Pilgrim: Faith as a Weapon. It was released in October 2000 for Windows. The game is inspired by the work of Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho. A sequel, The Secrets of Alamût was released in March 2001.
Chemicus: Journey to the Other Side is a 2001 educational adventure video game by Heureka-Klett as part of Tivola's "Quest for Knowledge" series. A sequel named Chemicus II: Die versunkene Stadt was released in 2002. The game was originally released in Germany.
Mata Hari is an adventure video game. It was released on November 21, 2008, in German-speaking territories. The game was worked on by ex-LucasArts alumni Hal Barwood and Noah Falstein.
Mozart: The Conspirators of Prague is a 2009 point-and-click puzzle adventure video game developed by GameCO Studios and published by Micro Application for Microsoft Windows.
Tajemství Oslího ostrova, known in English as The Secret of Donkey Island, is a 1994 Czech point-and-click adventure video game. Distributed by Petr Vochozka through his company Vochozka Trading in June 1994, it was the first nationally distributed PC game in the country and one of the first Czech games commercially available. A parody of the successful Monkey Island series, the story plays out as if it were a direct sequel to The Secret of Monkey Island, ignoring the continuity of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge.
7 dní a 7 nocí is a 1994 Czech adventure game released on MS-DOS through Petr Vochozka's Vochozka Trading brand, and published by Pterodon Software. It was the first Czech video game to use Sound Blaster. The game was released in German as 7 Tage, 7 Nächte and in Polish as 7 Dni i 7 Nocy.
Horké léto is a point-and-click video game. Developed by Czech studio Maxon, it was published in 1998 by JRC Interactive. A sequel, entitled Horké léto 2, was developed by Centauri Production and published in 1999 by JRC Interactive. A third game Žhavé léto 3 ½ is an action/adventure/driving game developed by Centauri Production and CINEMAX, published by Akella in 2006, which although unable to use the characters and titles of the first two games was related and rounded off what was effectively a trilogy. Žhavé léto 3 ½ was published in English, Spanish, French and German as Evil Days of Luckless John and in Russian as Сорвать Куш.
The Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript is an adventure game developed by Kheops Studio and published by Tri Synergy on June 7, 2006 on the PC. In 2009 it was released on the Mac OS X.
U.F.O.s is a 1997 adventure video game developed by Artech Digital Entertainment and published by Corel Corporation and Hoffmann + Associates on Macintosh and Windows.