ABOUT

"Joe Murphy in: Frightening Times" (FT) is an old-fashioned adventure game in the point-and-click tradition. It's played in a first person perspective, which doesn't mean anything except that you don't see the game character you are playing. It certainly got nothing to do with the kind of game play known from 3D shooters.

In this SciFi-Horror-Comedy you play the part of dull small town boy Joe Murphy who has to change his way of life drastically as aliens from Outer Space invade the place where he lives - Dade's Town.

The goal of the game is to solve some puzzles like take the key to unlock the door or throw the spear at the alien to kill it. By solving such puzzles you will proceed in the game and could enjoy intelligent plot twists as the story unfolds. Unfortunately there is no plot.

Current status
Features
Credits

Current Status

Current version: demo-2.0 (October 2008)

Release date for full version: the future (estimate not possible)

Features
(in no particular order and not necessarily complete)

• easy to use point and click interface: AMIS (All-Mouse-Input-System) designed exclusively for Frightening Times
• good, old-fashioned adventure game (no 3D shooting, no real-time, no 3D graphics acceleration, no FMV and much more not included)
• Alien intelligence and accurate, almost scientific depiction of an alien civilization
• free, fully playable, and unrestricted demo version containing all of the 3rd part of the whole game:
• sneak through the dangerous Alien-HQ (except you can't sneak)
• duck as terrible monsters strike out at you (except you can't duck)
• jump and run to avoid deadly traps (except you can't jump and run because it's an old-fashioned adventure game with no stupid action part)
• talk to a real alien (yes, you can talk or at least click on talk)
• destroy the Alien Chief to win the game
• hours of gameplay (if you move your mouse at 1 ppm (pixels per minute))
• listen to the fantastic soundtrack exclusively composed for Frightening Times by professional musician Joseph Wang
• cinematic sequences progress the events in the game ("cinematic" meaning: parts of the game with no user interaction)
• scrolling credits
• clever puzzles challenge your wits as you search for a way to save the world from dangerous invading aliens
• interactive animation - move your mouse and watch the cursor march over the screen!


Praise for Frightening Times


• "... so much fun you'll never want to stop playing ..." (a player who wants to stay anonymous)
• "... great graphics, cool soundtrack - a technological masterpiece ..." (a player who didn't stay anonymous and was killed for talking rubbish)
• "... Frightening Times, the new adventure-fest, is absolutely fabulous... Having played it for a bit I'm absolutely hooked... It's got fun stamped all over it with a capital 'F'." (a famous games magazine which will stay unnamed because the review was actually for a different game)

... and much more!

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Credits

Written, Designed, Graphics and Programming
Thomas Bernhard

Music
Joseph Wang

Sound
Joseph Wang
Alice Wang
Thomas Bernhard

Testing
Tobias Sturn

Thanks
Chen Kuan-Yu
Martin Ehrnhöfer
Martin Greifeneder
Thomas Losert
Diverse Parents
Thomas Rehm
Markus Wagner
Stephan Wang

Feedback is most welcome!

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