author=Jear77
out of curiosity... is the door supposed to open after you set the code for it or not? I put the code in and it won't work. Or is the code backwards or something?

If you have been down the Eastern hallway and found the room with the puzzle, there's a couple of ways you can figure out how to do it. You can either look at the rows of symbols and try to find a pattern or you can try one and see what result it has on the door, and modify accordingly (trial and error)

So you're trying to get the code to read 12335, and if you don't have that the door won't open. I was hoping that this puzzle would be difficult and take a while and I've seen everyone so far crack it.

I think there is a problem that you can go into minus numbers, one of the test players thought he had it but the door wouldn't open because eh had 12-3-3-5

maybe I should put something in there to stop it going into minus numbers...

Oh...I see what has happened. Thanks for pointing it out but It'll work fine like that. There is no way to complete the assylum without the dog running off so I'm not phased.

Verry appreciated, dude.

Thanks dude, It's good to hear this stuff.

Right, the code on that door can't be changed at the door. The puzzle that opens it is somewhere else in the asylum.

I had no idea that there was a crossed switch in there. Heinrich is supposed to run off regardless of if you have a potion! I'll get onto sorting that out.

EDIT:
Just checked and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with a potion. Are you sure you didn't trigger the event, forget about it and come back?

yea, that's supposed to happen when you leave the school. There are monsters in the town and it's snowing, everything is different and more dangerous. It's important to the story that the guy in the shack is there when he is because that's the turning point, the game plays out differently from there on depending on your karma.

I think the game gets a lot better after it starts snowing, I like the atmosphere of it all better.

Yea, I'm aware of the super speed glitch after some big fights, I know how to fix it and I should do that at the end of the school battle, just in case people end up running at super speed.

Thanks for the stuff.

By the way, How many minutes does it say you've been playing for because you're a little less than half way through the beta version now.

Thanks for the feedback man.

At the start of the game he has no idea there are monsters in the town, he just thinks he's going to meet his friend and translate some historical records. So he doesn't take his wood chopping axe on holiday with him to meet his old friend. Later on when he gets to the town and finds it full of monsters, then you can pick up every axe you see.

Yea, I like your lantern ideas. there is actually a puzzle a lot like that later in the game where you have to walk around an old coal mine and keep lighting urns full of lamp oil and wood, they only burn for 30 seconds or so, then it starts to get dark, and if you don't find another you hear noises and take damage, till you die or get some light. So you're actually ahead of the curve.

In the room you're talking about though, that area can't be accessed because there's some sturdy iron work in the way. It's actually just a dead end at that point in the game.

Due to the stuff you said before I've gone back and put a safe cracking puzzle in the school so that there's a bit of variety, and I'm working with the 3D guy to maybe get a more tense scene in there. You were right in saying it's a bit thin. Might have a bit where all the students have been locked in the gym and Androse lets them out, so you have to run through the school and barricade a door, find an alternate way out.

I thought about what you said about selling gear. I had been thinking myself that people will need a place to sell the junk they get but, since all the people have mysteriously dissipated it seemed stupid and mood breaking to have a shop. I've arrived at a sort of solution though...Now there's a paranoid guy who's locked himself in the mill and will only open the door to trade for supplies. This way if people haven't bough potions or found coats, hats and stuff they can get it from him, until you go there on time and he's gone and there's blood on the floor.

No idea what's going on with the ghost image if you walk too far form the dog...that's really news to me. There's nothing in the events that would do that. Can you take a screen shot or something, sounds bizarre but interesting.

Really glad someone's playing it and giving advice.
how far are you now?

Hey that's a good point. I have lamps around to light rooms and it only makes sense that the main character would want to pick them up and use them...Still, that'll just have to be put down to suspension of disbelief. I suppose, maybe since he's already got a lantern he doesn't need to collect all the ones that are lighting rooms around the town, just get fuel.

Hmm, where are the axes laying around that you can't take? There should be a wood chopping axe outside the big white house, A fire safety axe in the groundskeeper's shack and another one inside the rich guy's house, and you can pick them all up.

Do you think I should put some other kind of puzzle in the school, other than finding the keys to the teacher's room and jumping down to the second floor?

Thanks for playing and giving me this info, dude!

Since the girl asks you not to kill her, you lose a little karma if you do shoot her. She can't be saved, so if you don't kill her she will turn into a ghoul. If you complete the game with great karma she will appear outside the town at the end, and help Sam get back to civilization.

author=Jear77
I downloaded it and am playing it. I'm in the school, but can't quite figure out how to get to the kids trapped in the room in the 2nd floor. I think I've discovered all the other secrets (even the basement with the drainage canal). How do I get to where they're at?

Ah, I'm glad to hear that the download link works.
On the third floor of the school is Terry's diary. If you read it he talks about how he jumps from the third floor balcony to the second to see his girlfriend. After you've done that and walk on the balcony, Sam will ask if he should jump down.

How are you finding it, by the way?

I'd love to hear your feedback. The finished one will be coming out next month, so I'm keen to hear reviews and opinions so I can make last minute alterations.

It's big because there are full 3D cut scenes and hundreds of maps.