The Dark Secret of Calming Creek

One night, you awake in your car, asking yourself what you are doing here. You just can't seem to remember what had happened before. Your body aches and you notice that you somehow became entangled in your seat belt. This is where your adventure begins, involving a dark secret in a deserted ghost town...

"The Dark Secret of Calming Creek" is a new visual text adventure with a modern take. It is inspired by classic (horror) text adventures that were once quite popular in the eighties (like "Castle of Terror"), but also by modern text-based games including: "Unhallowed" and  "Stories Untold".

It is played like a true classic text adventure; by typing in brief commands, typically existing of at least one verb and a noun, followed by pressing the "Enter" key. But like the more recent text adventures, you cannot really die in this game, so you don't have to worry about starting all over again or saving your game after each new discovery. Also, the game can  always be completed at  any point, regardless of your actions and decisions. There is also more than just one ending.

Credits

Script, design, programming and testing: Manuel van der Avoird

Additional testing: Bimbarlade

Typewriter sounds: Pakasit21 (at freesound.org)

Font types: "HauntOAE" by Brian J. Bonislawsky of the Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute, "Latin Modern" by GUST e-foundry

Rain, wind and fog effects: "Rain Maker" Unity Asset by Digital Ruby (digitalruby.com), "Simple 2d Fog - Storm - Smoke" Unity Asset by Akilli Mum

Most graphics were based on CCS0 and public domain images from various stock photo sites, including: pxhere.com, pixabay.com, pxfuel.com, unsplash.com, pexels.com, publicdomainpictures.net, stocksnap.io, search.creativecommons.org, and snappygoat.com

Many thanks to all people who were contributing to these sites and letting me use their images.

Created with Unity

Enjoy this free game!

Current version is: 1.0.0