#hidden object games

[barbiestuffps]

I Spy: Fantasy, 2003

[shadowroxz13]

Heyyy! IDK if you do headcanons on the Dark Parables but if so, can you do headcanons on the fairytale detective pls?

@bffanatic234

Oh.. wow, I was not expecting this! Always wonderful to see and talk to another DP Fan in the wilds, I normally don't write headcannons nor requests but ya know what, I might as well give it a shot, who knows, I'd may be up for doing more of these in the future! So Please feel free to ask! :)

Note: These are just my take with the Fairytale Detective from my POV while playing the games. Right off the bat, The games establishes the the Detective is female via canon, so that's what I'll be working with as well as Including SPOILERS for some of the games, I'll also be adding in bits of my own personal writing headcannons for the series as well so I hope you don't mind that. (And I'm Terribly sorry that this has been so, so long in the making.)

The Fairytale Detective is Autistic hands down, No- I will not fight anyone on this, you can pry this idea from my cold dead hands before I say that is this girlie isn't Autistic.

With being Autistic, her main hyperfixations included but not limited to: Fairy tales, Magic and spooky themed items, Classic lit and Gothic Lit, Puzzles, Constellations and the Moon's phases among many other things but these are the ones that she can list off from the top of her head when asked.

She has extremely long hair but she doesn't like having her hair down around her neck- so she constantly puts it up. Mainly within a ponytail to keep it out of her face. (She can wear it down for a good while but I'd say after at least 2 hours, her hair would need to go back up before it starts bugging her.)

She Has a Black Cat chain necklace with a little golden gem acting as the connector between the charm and the chain, She calls this her lucky charm and doesn't leave anywhere without it.

She loves the very little tiny details within most objects she picks up during her cases, If she could, she would keep almost every overly ornate thing that catches her eyes. Mainly the tiaras from the Exiled Prince case and the Moon Stone and the Moon Essence's Bottle-yes, just the bottle itself- from The Red Riding Hood Sisters Case.

Surprisingly, She is NOT a polyglot. AKA: Someone who knows several languages. Despite people thinking she is one due to her cases, the most she knows is a few phrases and words in both Spanish and French-but she isn't an expert with these unlike her native language, English.

Because of the language barrier, Somehow, The Veil of the fairytale world is able to translate everything for her into english even if it's written in another language.

Due to some of the events from her cases, She will suddenly bolt awake within the middle of the night for almost no reason from time to time. On the good days she's just mildly stunned as she looks around her room wondering where she is before checking the time on her phone and tries to fall back asleep. (Unsuccessfully most nights.)

On the bad nights however- She wakes up crying and shaking in place, out of breath- as her mind begins to replay the events that haunted her dreams for the remainder of the night. (ie: Killing James, Not being able to save The Wolf Queen and Raphael, Watching Snow's grief being used to hurt people Etc.) She doesn't sleep at all when those happen...

Because of this habit of suddenly waking during the night, she has developed a horrendous case of insomnia as a way to avoid the bad nights and this issue isn't helped by the fact that majority of her cases take place during the night. Which causes her to burn more energy due to how active her cases require her to be and in turn, forces her to stay awake for much longer than normal.

Long story short, It's a vicious cycle of her being awake until she's gets a chance to just passes out at home for a long time in a dreamless sleep due to exhaustion. But at least this way... She at least gets some semblance of sleep, however little it may be.

She does have good dreams despite these issues, but they are extremely rare for her to have, but because of this- it allows her to remember them much more clearer than her nightmares.

The one that has been the most recent and reoccurring one, is her in a field surrounded by different kinds of wildflowers all around her as two little girls and, who the detective assumes to be their father, plays with them as the girls suddenly calls out to their mama as they look towards her, all three beings having cat ears for some reason... whenever she wakes from this one, She's crying a little bit because it felt so real to her.

Most days when she's not dealing with cases: she's either asleep, dealing with her classwork, playing computer games/video games, Chatting online with friends, helping her family out or watching Crime shows and animated Movies/shows.

(Some of her favorite crime shows are: Criminals Minds, Psych, and Leverage. and for movies: Beauty and the Beast (Animated 1991), Enchanted, Phantom Of The Opera/Into The Woods.)

She ABSOLUTELY hates the taste of Coffee, she would rather drink tea and other drinks such as: Water, Sweet Tea (American), Lemonade (American) or soda pop before she would even consider touching Coffee, she does like the smell of it when it's being brewed however.

EDIT: She doesn't drink any form of alcohol. She can't stand the smell of it and for personal reasons as well.

Her Absolute favorite scents are Lilacs, Burning Campfires/Burning Wood, Black Cherry, Apple Cinnamon, Coffee Brewing and the smell of a warm Summer Petrichor.

Because she's Autistic, some of her senses get overwhelmed via her cases (Floralia's pollen was killer on her lungs and sense of smell for example.) Due to this- she does need to take a few moments before forcing herself back into action to deal with the case at hand. (After the cases she tends to shutdown for at least an hour or two.)

EDIT: She also doesn't smoke due to her lungs being very weak and also due to hating cigarette smoke among other personal reasons.

Like any normal person, she also has a few phobias such as: spiders and heights, but she fully despises Dolls and Puppets of any kind, seeing or being near them. (This fear doesn't improve after the Final Cinderella case...nor when dealing with a Certain Count's personal collection.)

I personally think that the Detective is a very short girl, roughly around 4'11, as most of the places she goes to seem larger than life than she is. (She's 5'1 with her shoes on though, so don't feel too bad about her height.)

She has a small temper when people do actually bring up her height, She won't yell at people right off the bat, but she'll get the impression that they think she won't be able to solve the case that she was called in for, solely due to her height. She does know it's not out of malice, it really just annoys her in how common the idea is.

Fun Fact: She is actually taking college classes, but people around her, outside of her family and friends, Have thought she's at least 14 or even younger solely due to her height at times.

She doesn't like working on cases while dealing with her class assignments- but when she does get called into action during her projects-she get excused from them without repercussions- she doesn't really know how this deal work and has asked before, but nobody has given her a direct, straight answer. This fact annoys her, but she's not complaining about it, if it means she can sleep before 6am for once and not suffer in her grades- she'll take it.

She has never ever swore in her life. If she needs to express her anger via words, she will come up with her own words. Example: "Sweet Frank Sinatra, Holy Mother Teresa!" her personal favorite of these are "cheese and crackers." and 'Oh...Sugar Cookies!"

Her Music taste is variety. Ranging from 70'-early 2000's, Classical, Musicals show tunes, Everything but Rap Music, she will change the radio or whatever she's listening to from Rap Music automatically.

I personally see her as Asexual- She would rather have just the romance parts of dating and romantic gestures over anything else. I feel like she also considering herself to being possibly sex repulsed due to only wanting Fluffy romance- but she's still questioning that part of herself.

And Because of this, anything with Jack flirting with her makes her VERY uncomfortable to say the least, but Jack seems to be enough of a gentlemen to know when to back off from her and focus on the tasks given to him.

Julian's flirting however, makes her feel even more on edge than with jack's flirting. It makes her stomach do flips whenever Julian does it.

She originally wasn't planning on taking the job as a Detective at all and just focus on schoolwork/family issues, it wasn't until she got personally requested by the Heads of the Detective Agency she now works for to answer the call. So in a way, her bosses kinda twisted her arm on the matter in becoming a Detective. (The Letter was delivered to her via a Black Cat with Heterochromatic eyes... a little odd to her, but hey- weird things happen all the time.)

The Detective understands the lengths some of the villains that she encounters will go to for their goals, it's not right for them to risk the world doing so, but she can see why they were pushed to the brink of everything, and in a way feels terribly sorry for them, due to seeing this route as the only way to reach their goals. She always wants to help them in the end. Speaking of...

The Detective truly believes that she can save everyone from a terrible fate, but time and time again, the world around her proves her wrong. She hates that fact being shoved into her face every time she can't help someone at all.

Due to this, she tends to beat herself up because of it, Blaming herself thinking "What if I did this instead?" Or "if only I was quicker." it's not very often she thinks like this, but it does linger in the back of her mind, which inspires her to be better to do better as an ideal paragon. (she's not a paragon- She's Human.)

Out of All of the goddesses that she has met over her years as a detective, She has made a ranking list of what goddesses she likes, and who she detests because of their interactions or how the detective learns about them and how they treated people and followers.

Her List is the following: Likes- Selena: Goddess of the Moon, death, stories, and oceans and overseer of the Fairytale realm. Soleanna: The Goddess of the Sun, War, Life and Overseer of the Mortal Plane, Indifference- Flora: the Goddess of Balance and Nature, Overseer of Rosaria- The Realm of the Faes. Thalassa: The 'Goddess' of the Sea and Tides. (The Detective doesn't consider Thalassa a Goddess, as she's seems more like a nymph that was appointed by Selena to her.) Absolutely hates-Merida: The Goddess of Maidens and Twilights: Overseer of the Veil.

The Detective has a personal Vendetta towards the Maiden Goddess, due to the sole fact that the Goddess forbade the creation of more Fairy Godmothers and thus forcing young girls, who would normally be considered to be the ideal candidates as Cinderella, the girls The Maiden's Goddess's godmothers strive to find and help, to fend for themselves in (Possible) terrible situations, some of which could have been avoided if the Goddess stepped in and not wash her hands of the issues.

The Detective swears if she ever meets the Maiden Goddess in person, she IS going to call her out on the issues she made and grill her a new one. Noctis: The God of Shadows, Candles, and Forgotten souls is Fine in her book, but will never understand why he hooked up with Merida within all the realms.

She has known about Curseries long before her very first case. Although, she thought they were all just old wives tales while she was growing up and were used to scare kids, not ever realizing that they were very real, and very dangerous beings to deal with.

Yet what surprised her the most was that her own heart would belong to a certain Crooked Cat when she became a Detective later in her life.

Nor the fact that she- herself, would find the abilities of a Cursery, the possibility of Finally having the means to help people, taking a powerful shapeshifter as a lover who's extremely loyal to the people he loves, the Pull of immortality is a very appealing thing to someone who's cases have put her life at risk more than once. It seemed a little Greedy of her to want this sort of thing... but oh temptations are always such a sweet alluring thing... aren't they Dearie?

I Hope that you enjoyed and like all of these little Headcanons! This was really, Really fun to do, I'd be happy to do more of these in the future if the Fandom wants them for other characters or just wanna Pick my brain on things for DP or Cursery or even writing in general lol. And Once again, I'm so so sorry for how long these took! Life just got busy for me.

I Do Hope You Have A Wonderful Rest of your Day/Night!

-ShadowRoxz.❤

[dreamer-73]

It always surprises me and makes me laugh when I play hidden object games and find these little Easter eggs in these scenes.

(The first photo is from “Haunted Halls: Nightmare Dwellers”, and the other two are from “Forgotten Places: Lost Circus”.)

[dailyrandomwriter]

Day 906

This past weekend I finally got around to playing True Fear Part 1. Shout out to @wereah for being my body double for that game, I don’t think I would have finished it otherwise. Though she did make watching me play it as our together time activity, probably because I told her there was a non-zero chance I would scream.

I don’t normally like horror games, but I tend to find hidden object games more doable because running for your life is not an aspect of that genre. Hidden object games and creepy-borderline-horror themes tend to go hand in hand. You can blame the creators of Mystery Case Files, the first breakout hidden object game for that trend, but it’s also just visually easier to do. There’s a reason why hidden object games tend towards mystery, fantasy, supernatural or horror (or all of them). It is much easier to make visually interesting scenes and backgrounds. 

The horror aspect is also really great, because the player is often focused on observing the scene, and that focus can allow you to do some creepy or heartstopping things. Especially if the transition between the scene and the cutscene is seamless, Mystery Trackers was actually really good at that.

The reason why I bought the first True Fear game was because the hidden object side of Tumblr was really excited about the release of True Fear 3. And if a lot of people are excited about a hidden object game, it generally means the series is pretty good. Unfortunately in the past several years this genre has been hit hardest by sloppy development, developers taking shortcuts and (horrifyingly enough) AI art. It is hard to find out if you’re going to get a good game because it is a very niche genre so it’s never going to get a lot of reviews on Steam.

Since it was on sale, I thought why not? I already played and did not finish the Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden because of the stupid amount of jumpscares that came at me without warning. I figured it could not be worse when it comes to jumpscares.

The good news is, the game followed audio horror conventions which meant I had a pretty good guess of when I was going to see something that would make me jump out of my skin. The bad (yet good) news is that it really leaned into the horror of it all. It felt like you were in a horror movie, complete with dumb white woman trope (because the main character was so dumb). And gameplay was not the traditional find the object scene, instead making a seamless mini-puzzle where you use objects in the scene to solve the scene.

Taking into account this was released in 2016, this was an amazing game for the time it was published. I understand why those who like this genre, really were excited for this game. This is not a series I would personally continue playing because my heart can’t take it, but it is a very well done game.

Glitches and narrative issues aside. The in-game journal was trying to be ambitious by only releasing narrative information once the player came across an object or piece of information. At some point in the second half of the game the journal began to release information too early. Information about the mysterious Dahlia was put into the journal when it shouldn’t have been, which would lead to confusion in some players. I think part of it was that it was conflicting with the collectable figures. I do wonder if there is missing narrative text as flavour text from the collectable figures were put into the journal on top of whatever system allowed you to see what figures you collected.

There is also a second glitch involving the quick travel system. Normally in hidden object games you didn’t gain access to an area until you stepped through the threshold, and then the area would be added to your map. However, the game opened up that area when you completed a puzzle to ‘unlock’ the area, rather than step into it yourself. This was a problem when you’re using that map to figure out what puzzles you still had to solve. Allowing the player to get into a room that they’re not sure how they got into, in the first place.

The final issue is the narrative. The narrative was very tight in the first act but by the third act it was falling apart. I don’t know how stories are written for hidden object games, if they are written as the game is being developed or beforehand, but there were a lot of narrative holes. Now, I do have a suspicion that the story had been changed at the last minute, but I am not going to talk about that here, because that requires content warnings.

But I will say there are parts of the game that clearly were designed to make a creepy scene, and didn’t really think about the implications of what that meant for the story. Especially if they were trying to make the main character’s mother someone you could emphasize with. Or the main character for that matter, the main character seems to be a few points short on their emotional intelligence.

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[kiminoan]

What's a goblin to do: hidden object games for non-Intel Macs?

I love, really really love, hidden object games, as a kind of kinetic meditation or no stress enrichment when I'm sick.

I played just about every Artifex Mundi game ever when they were still publishing hidden object adventures. I love having a complete game vs. an open-ended micro transaction game.

All of my old hidden object games that I bought through Steam no longer work on my new non-Intel Mac running Sequoia and I'm so bummed. I can play the storyline but the trackpad doesn't work in any of the hidden object mini games, ugh. When I try to search for hidden object adventures on the Mac App Store, there's a million "free" ones with infinite microtransactions and that's not for me.

Is this just not a thing anymore? Or just not a thing for non-Intel Macs? CRY. I've spent the last hour searching Big Fish and other developers trying to find something that I could download and play offline with a finite story line. I am woe, I has the woe, halp.

I also like games like Machinarium. I might have to change up what genre I'm looking in / for but I'm so bummed. HOGs were perfect kinetic meditation for me; complete brain silence.