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“,” by Michael Thomsen.A Dark Room starts with a few lines of text on a black screen: “the fire is dead. The room is cold. Head throbbing. Vision blurry.” A bright-blue line cuts across the center of the screen, just below the words “stoke fire.” You press the words and suddenly the screen turns white. More text arrives: a ragged stranger has stumbled through the door. You keep stoking the fire, the thin blue bar disappearing and then slowly filling itself out again each time to signal when you’ll be able to press the “stoke fire” button again.What follows is a strange hybrid, part mystery story and part smartphone productivity software, an app that inexplicably rocketed to the most-downloaded spot in the App Store’s games section in April and stayed there throughout the month. A product of a collaboration between two men who worked together without ever having met in person, the game evokes the simplest text-based computer games of the nineteen-seventies while stimulating a very modern impulse to constantly check and recheck one’s phone.
It’s like a puzzle composed of deconstructed to-do lists. After stoking the fire a few more times, you have a new option: collect wood, which can be used to build a cart. Once a cart is built, you can make traps and set them in the surrounding forest, and soon you’re collecting cloth and furs, which can be used to build more huts to attract others to join your small enclave, allowing for the collection of even more fur and meat.
You can begin to see a structure emerge from the fragments, but where that structure will lead you remains impossible to predict, and so the compulsion to keep pressing little word buttons grows stronger. Originally created by Michael Townsend in May of 2013, A Dark Room was designed to run in Web browsers and meant to be left running in an open window throughout the day. “When I saw Michael’s creation, it was just really good timing,” Amir Rajan, Townsend’s eventual development partner, told me. Rajan had recently left his job as a software engineer in Dallas, Texas, hoping to build a more personally gratifying career with his own work. “I was building a budgeting app in my spare time and had made quite a few iOS apps that will never see the light of day,” Rajan said.
“But when I saw A Dark Room, I thought this could really be meaningful to bring to the App Store.”Rajan e-mailed Townsend, who lived one thousand six hundred miles away, in Ottawa, Canada, and asked for permission to adapt the game for iPhones and iPads. A working programmer by day and a game-design hobbyist by night, Townsend was happy to share his work with Rajan. “I want to kindle the creative spirit in others,” Townsend told me over e-mail.
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“My games are open-source because I want people to learn from them, or use them to build their own things.”. When A Dark Room was first released on iPhone, at the end of 2013, the game was listed in a number of Best of the Year lists, including those published by Forbes, Paste, and the influential gaming site Giant Bomb, but it remained a relatively modest seller. “I thought if I could just get one per cent of the people who had played the Web version of the game, that would be great,” Rajan told me, recounting the enthusiastic reception that the Web version had received from major gaming sites like.
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“I think we got eight downloads the first day. I checked again the day after we’d been mentioned on Giant Bomb and we’d only gotten eighty downloads.”A Dark Room continued on with these modest figures for five months, eventually reaching a thousand downloads a month at ninety-nine cents each—“nice mailbox money,” as Rajan described it, but nothing more than that. Then, one day in early spring, Rajan decided to check the U.K. App Store charts on a whim and noticed that the game had been downloaded three hundred times in a single day. He thought it was an anomaly, maybe because of a school holiday, but the next day that figure shot to eight hundred, and a few days later the game had become the most downloaded game in the U.K. Soon after, the game began climbing the ranks of the U.S. App Store, reaching the top spot for all downloads on April 12th and staying there for the rest of the month.
“I have no idea why it happened,” Rajan admitted. “All this was an accident.”.
This basic tension between pattern and purpose is the foundation of all language games, which play against the player’s instinctive urge to intuit the rules beneath the text. Passed down through the centuries in everything from poetry and pun to Surrealist automatism and freestyle rap battles, language games create an open rupture between words and the hidden purpose that we suspect they mask. With the modern intrusion of computers in our shared languages, these forms of word play were turned into parables of advancement and productivity, narrating miniature progress narratives in which the player’s desires to accrue, manage, and discover were set against neurotic self-doubt. Compared with reflex-driven arcade games like Pong and Space Invaders, text games provided ponderous pools of play, in which it was almost never clear what you were supposed to do. So players had to imagine the way forward for themselves, and were always left to wonder whether their choices were heading toward a good outcome or a bad one.
While both Townsend and Rajan worked on A Dark Room in their free time, its sudden success left both with the option of pursuing game development full-time and possibly contributing to this emerging renaissance of language games. “I make games because I love making games,” Townsend said. “That drive has only strengthened now that I know that people actually like the same weird stuff that I like.” By his estimate, making one game a year that performs like A Dark Room would make it possible for him to quit his day job, but he’s unsure whether this whole experience was just a fluke.
While he’s still debating the issue, Townsend is certain that there would be no better measure of “true success” than being able to spend the rest of his working days doing the thing that he loves most.Rajan is more resigned, accepting game development’s role in his life as a hobby, a means of creation used to offset the work of being productive for other people. “I never expected anything I made would have such an impact,” Rajan said. “For me, it’s back to independent consulting and general software development, but games will always be that escape that I need sometimes.”.
This unofficial guide to DARK video game contains primarily a very detailed walkthrough of its prologue and all six chapters. Description of each level focuses on providing complete information on moving through locations while staying completely undetected and without triggering any alarms. The guide also helps in completing all of the side tasks (optional missions, conversations with other friendly characters etc.) and in finding all of the secret objects (collectibles).
The final chapter of the guide is entirely about the main character and developing his vampiric abilities. You can find extensive descriptions of all available powers and upgrades and additional suggestions on which supernatural abilities you should be interested in the most.
DARK game guide offers:
- a complete, highly illustrated walkthrough of the game's prologue and all six chapters, informing on how to remain undetected
- descriptions of all optional tasks and info on the locations of all collectibles
- a complete list of Eric's vampiric abilities along with suggestions which ones should be unlocked in the first place
- a full list of the game's achievements
Color markings in the guide
Four different colors have been used in this guide:
- brown color - this color was used to mark all the living beings encountered in the game (allies, neutral characters and enemies)
- blue color - this color was used to inform about using various vampiric powers
- orange color - this color was used to inform about experience points earned by the main character
- green color - this color was used to mark all the objects (standard and collectibles) found in the game
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About DARK Game Guide
Author : Jacek 'Stranger' Halas for gamepressure.com
last update : May 5, 2016
Guide contains : 60 pages, 683 images.
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DARK Video Game
- genre: Action
- developer: Realmforge Studios
- publisher: Kalypso Media
- platform: PC, XBOX360
- rated: PEGI: Age 16+ / ESRB: Teen
DARK is a stealth action game with RPG elements that lets you slip into the role of the ultimate killer… a vampire. Stalk you enemies from the shadows then use powerful vampire abilities to attack and silently dispatch them! The exciting story of DARK immerses you in a world full of blood and darkness in which the hunter can become the hunted at any time.
As you unravel the mystery behind the global conglomerate that seems omnipresent and all-powerful, continually improve your character by developing powerful skills to aid you in remaining unobserved, or make quick process of those unfortunate to take too keen an interest in you.
Features of DARK:
Stealth and action combine as players walk the world in darkness and silence, attacking their unsuspecting foes with supernatural fury
Use powerful vampire abilities and hard-hitting melee attacks to defeat dangerous enemies -- turn into a puff of smoke and disappear, or close with your foes in an instant!
Powerful and intelligently controlled AI enemies mix the fantastic with the real-world. Battle police and elite special forces along with ghouls and other vampires
Castles, museums, skyscrapers, nightclubs and more are rendered in stunning 3D cel-shaded graphics, beckoning the player to explore -- but beware, powerful enemies hide everywhere
RPG element mix with a compelling story – players will build up their skills through successful evasion and combat, while advancing the story through conversations with NPCs
As you unravel the mystery behind the global conglomerate that seems omnipresent and all-powerful, continually improve your character by developing powerful skills to aid you in remaining unobserved, or make quick process of those unfortunate to take too keen an interest in you.
Features of DARK:
Stealth and action combine as players walk the world in darkness and silence, attacking their unsuspecting foes with supernatural fury
Use powerful vampire abilities and hard-hitting melee attacks to defeat dangerous enemies -- turn into a puff of smoke and disappear, or close with your foes in an instant!
Powerful and intelligently controlled AI enemies mix the fantastic with the real-world. Battle police and elite special forces along with ghouls and other vampires
Castles, museums, skyscrapers, nightclubs and more are rendered in stunning 3D cel-shaded graphics, beckoning the player to explore -- but beware, powerful enemies hide everywhere
RPG element mix with a compelling story – players will build up their skills through successful evasion and combat, while advancing the story through conversations with NPCs
- Realmforge Studios - Developer Website.
- Kalypso Media - Publisher Website.
- DARK - Official Website.
DARK PC version System Requirements
Recommended: Core 2 Duo 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, graphic card 512 MB (GeForce 8800 GT or better), 5 GB HDD, Windows XP/Vista/7
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