Submissions by danielpringle tagged exploration

The Birthday is a first person psychological game, set in the middle of the bush. Its your fathers birthday, and for the occasion, you and him have gone up to your under-construction Holiday House, sitting in the middle of dense bush overlooking the ocean. A truly magical place. As you explore the framework of the house, your father says he needs to check on the seats in the small picnic area down the side path. You watch as he turns the corner. What should be a five minute trip turns into half an hour, before you decide to race down to find him. All you find, sitting on one of the chairs, is the hat he was wearing. There is only one place he could have gone; into the bush. The house is located in the corner of a 14 Hectare property, made almost entirely out of native plants, that you as the player are free to explore at your own will. But make sure you hurry to find your father. There is only a few hours of daylight left, you don't have any sort of survival gear, and you know from experience that there are wild pigs somewhere in the area. Players must use logic, reasoning, and good observation, if they want to make any headway in there search. Maybe they caught a glimpse of a shadowy figure far away? maybe they found their fathers Watch, caught on a tree? All you know, is that this will not be your fathers Final Birthday.

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The Lost Cities is a First Person Adventure exploration game. You play Sotan Posteel, a Scrapper for Hire in the Milky Way Galaxy. You, and your team of robots, descend into abandoned cities on destroyed planets, to retrieve items of importance, for a considerable fee. Anything else you find is yours to keep. Its a good paying job. That is, until you receive your Latest Contract. Neo Charon, of 'Charon, Sampson and John', has asked you to retrieve 7 icons of the Old Gods of the Planet Enol, from its surface. One Icon lies in each of the Major Cities scattered across the desolate wasteland terrain. Despite what you heard about Enol, with the Plague, Killer Robots, Atom Wars, and that once incident with an ambassador from Napan, you take the Job. After all, 20 Million Soko's don't come by you very often. So you head down to the Planet, with 2 Collector Bots and 4 Security Bots, as you don't know how big the icon is, and there may be some Squatters living in the city. But what you don't know, is that the planet is not abandoned. As you venture into the first city, who knows what you will find. What has been lurking under the surface of the planet? Just how big are the Icons of the Old Gods? These questions will all be answered, in The Lost Cities.

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Journey to the Glorious City, is a third person Open World Exploration game, set in the 17th century, during the Spanish conquisition of Southern America. You play as an unnamed Fortune Hunter, exploring the New World, looking for untold riches. Starting from a small Port settlement, you have freedom to explore the entirety of Southern America. Almost. You traverse the country in a map view, that slowly gets revealed as you move about the map. You can find Spanish settlements, Mayan, Aztec, and Incan Cities, lost ruins, Undiscovered lakes and Rivers, and even Random Encounters in the deep jungles. However, you wont find what your looking for by uncovering every section of the map. While in the Port settlement, you heard rumours of an ancient city of Pure gold, El Dorado, buried deep within the jungle, with only a hidden set of markers leading the way to the city. You have a general idea of the location of one of these markers. Each Marker is different, from oddly shaped rocks, Abandoned temples, Pictographs on cliffs, and Trees twisted into shapes. Each Marker points to the next, if you can figure out its meaning. But at all times, be on the lookout for other fortune hunters, Natives, even the Wildlife. Can you survive the Journey to the Glorious City?

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