About This GameRelive the days of classic gaming with The Filmmaker, a puzzle-filled text adventure that pays tribute to the classic, cheesy Hollywood B-Movie!AboutThe Filmmaker combines the best elements of interactive fiction, visual novels, and gamebooks with a graphic user interface that emulates the look of early 1990s text adventures. It features beautiful artwork and cinematic music. In place of a text parser is a context-specific multiple choice menu. A compass allows you to travel from room to room, and separate inventory, map, journal, and character screens are available at the push of a button.It plays like an interactive novel. You make choices that determine what happens next in the story. But unlike in traditional gamebooks and visual novels, The Filmmaker also features more advanced adventure-based game mechanics, including locations to explore, items to interact with, characters to meet, and puzzles to solve. StoryThe Carson Stiles Gateway Theater was once the hotspot of town, featuring its own series of low-budget B-movies produced by renowned filmmaker Claude Ferucil.Unfortunately, the theater closed several months ago after a series of gruesome murders. This came as a huge disappointment to Brianna, a young B-movie buff who faithfully attended every new showing with her recently-passed father. Imagine Brianna’s surprise then, when she received a letter in the mail inviting her to the theater’s grand re-opening. Little did she realize, however, that she was in for a bit more than she bargained for... Features
The FilmsYou'll go inside five distinct black-and-white B-movie films, each of which features unique exploration, visuals, music, and puzzles! These include:
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the filmmaker - a text adventure Just Finished the Story and in waiting for the release of Stonewall Penitentiary. I hope to give an exaustive review on why you guys should buy and play this title first. So from the remakes of the original games\/stories released by Unimatrix Productions: Lifestream, Shady Brook, The Filmmaker. this one is the last (for now) in a ever interesting Supernatural\/Dark Mysteries interactive fiction series. Originally released in 2010 and remade two years ago is totally worthy for me to get because it got in it two things: Movies and Ghosts. You will be shown the possibility to travel inside 5 Black and white movies to release the trapped souls of the deceased Movie theatre staff. each movie got a different theme: Noir (Phillip Marlowe style), Ghotic Horror (Inspired by Nosferatu), Cartoon (I get a feeling this is in a way a parody to childish cartoons like teletubbies but twisted in nature and thought as if they were created in the 20s), Sci-Fi (A nod to low budget sci-fi black and white movies and I think a tiny tribute to series like Star Trek) Action (From this I get the vibe of Creatures of the Black Lagoon meet Indiana Jones setting). I appreciated the fact the author give us a taste of the past and loved the retro age atmosphere. the only complains I have are:
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