Locus
How did I miss this before? Locus is a beautiful point'n'click adventure, with great music, which, unusually, is presented in Quicktime rather than Flash. [via nordinho].

Entry 1480, Tuesday, November 8th 2005, Filed In Games
Rating(53%)

Teela

:
first? yay :P

Comment 1, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 08:15:00 AM

Stuart

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First the worst - Second the best!!!!!!!!

Comment 2, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 08:36:00 AM

Rosie

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Lucky third!!! Gonna go and play it now.....x

Comment 3, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 09:02:00 AM

Chuckler3

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but third is for the classy....

Comment 4, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 09:02:00 AM

Chuckler3

:
dang..

Comment 5, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 09:03:00 AM

Chuckler3

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that was stupid.. what's with the star formations...?

Comment 6, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 09:03:00 AM

Superman

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argh - stuck in the stars... any ideas?

Comment 7, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 09:54:00 AM

Murtaugh

:
um
whats up with the dolphin? :/
m

Comment 8, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 11:38:00 AM

Rachel

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boy does this take forever to load each screen.....

Comment 9, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 11:59:00 AM

LOLIEH88

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to be continued whats up with that this game had a few simple puzzles and that was it "waaaacccccckkkkkkkk"

Comment 10, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 11:58:00 AM

LOLIEH88

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HINT: (click box to highlight/fade)
YOULL FIND SOMEWHERE TO CLICK IN THE STARS

Comment 11, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 12:08:00 PM

Vickietickietoria

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Loved it, but got a 'to be continued..' at the end.

:(

Comment 12, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 12:11:00 PM

Murtaugh

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:(

short, simple not challenging at all, and that to be continued sign at the end.

but the graphics were cool

m

Comment 13, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 01:56:00 PM

Ash

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Gave up with the stars. Pretty boring.

Comment 14, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 05:09:00 PM

Valkyrie_lisa

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Yeah, um, if I can get through a point 'n' click game with no help, it's probably too easy ;).

Comment 15, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 05:22:00 PM

Slgalt

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Pleasant and amusing. Cool design. The sparkling stars on the star chart with the whale took a while (mostly just clicking until you got through various lighting). Most were simple familiar puzzles like simon and concentration but with a truly unique design to them.

Comment 16, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 08:19:00 PM

Mle

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Is anyone else finding this hard to navigate? Maybe it's just me...

Comment 17, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 08:56:00 PM

Mystery Person

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<style>.hov:hover{background-color:yellow}</style><div id='Title' style='font:bold 11px verdana'><h1 style='font:bold 13px;display:inline'>Watch Video:</h1><a class='hov' style='display:block;width:300px;border:solid 2px black;padding:5px' href="http://www.videocodezone.com/videos/w/weird_al_yankovic/amish_paradise.html" target='_blank'>AMISH PARADISE (Weird Al Yankovic)<p><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/videos/w/weird_al_yankovic/amish_paradise_221554.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' autoplay='true' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed></a><p style="margin:3px 0px"><a href='http://www.videocodezone.com/'>Video Code provided by VideoCodeZone.Com</a></p></a></div>


Sorry guys, I just had to do it again.

Now lets see who's going to comment on this song?

TEE HEE!

Comment 18, Tuesday, November 8th 2005 11:20:00 PM

Tessa

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Okay.

When I tried to load this game, My Firefox froze and began playing Amish Paradise.

I like that song though, so its cool.

Comment 19, Wednesday, November 9th 2005 12:18:00 AM

KCat

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Mine froze up too...the song came on automatically...something screwy

Comment 20, Wednesday, November 9th 2005 12:24:00 AM

Christal

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where do you click in the stars part? (not in the dolphin with light) any help would be appreciated. thanks

Comment 21, Wednesday, November 9th 2005 02:43:00 AM

Christal

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never mind, i found it.

Comment 22, Wednesday, November 9th 2005 02:55:00 AM

Big Russ

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That was pretty easy. I donno what I did to win that whale thing, but I got past it pretty easy.

Comment 23, Wednesday, November 9th 2005 07:13:00 AM

Jaf

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Does the author of the game read this?
If so, you need about thirty more puzzles, something to be gained when a puzzle is completed, somewhere to go, and a POINT.
Apart from that, I think it's pretty spectacular, graphically, and operationally. You have the germ of something wonderful there. So Get On With It!

And, by the by, I don't care if I'm *never* first to post. How uncool is that? Or is it ultimate cool?

Comment 24, Wednesday, November 9th 2005 01:08:00 PM

LOLIEH88

:
yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Comment 25, Wednesday, November 9th 2005 05:39:00 PM

Hoopla

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livin in an amish paradise... ok game to short... yeah people already said that but hey, no time for thinking now

Comment 26, Wednesday, November 9th 2005 05:38:00 PM

Hmm...

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whats with the stars?

Comment 27, Wednesday, November 9th 2005 06:24:00 PM

Hmm...

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whats with the stars?

Comment 28, Wednesday, November 9th 2005 06:24:00 PM

Singinbabe

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TO BE CONTINUED?! wow that was easy... if i could do it anyone can... haha

Comment 29, Wednesday, November 9th 2005 09:41:00 PM

LMFAO

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I love this song more than i did the game.

''we havent even payed the phone bill in 300 years''

Comment 30, Thursday, November 10th 2005 01:21:00 AM

Spanpris

:
I hate when a game can't be played on anything other than a Microsoft OS. :(

Comment 31, Thursday, November 10th 2005 04:19:00 PM

Caroline /Swe

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Mystery Person should quit interrupting this game site and go somewhere where he better fits in. How about a doctor's appointment?


ALL I F**KING NEED IS A WALKTHROUGH because I am getting NOWHERE in this game.

PLS help me.

Comment 32, Saturday, November 12th 2005 06:50:00 AM

Meme

:
this isn't exactly a walkthrough, but here's some MINMIAL HINTS:

most basic hint: nothing is that complicated, so play with it and you'll figure it out (or solve it by accident, like i did).

first, you see a picture that shatters. hint:

SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
your pointer turns into a hand when you scroll over the pieces.

when you solve that puzzle, you hear some white noise, kind of like applause.
now you're in a room with grottoes, and you're looking at the puzzle you just solved. what to do next? hint:

SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
as you scroll around, your pointer turns into an arrow.

now you're looking at a picture of a humpbacked whale (or, in Latin,
SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
cetus, from which the word "cetacean"
). what do you do? hint:

SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
Cetus is a constellation, and your cursor is followed by three stars. so what you do is

SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
click on the symbols to place the stars.

but then what? hint:

SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
notice that when you run your cursor over the fourth symbol, the picture goes dark. that's a hint.

now you're looking at a library, with the open book showing the picture of the whale. notice that nothing happens when you scroll around. what to do next:

SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
click and hold while you move the mouse.

the next scene you can move to has seven little trumpets and seven eyeballs. clicking on the trumpet makes a noise and raises the eyeballs. once you wake it up, it plays with you: one of the trumpets plays itself. hint:

SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
that's a clue about what it wants you to do.

you can tell if you do what you're supposed to do because

SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
you hear a bell.

when you've played the game correctly five times, there's cheering again, and you're back in the room.
the next puzzle shows you sixteen boxes (plus a green cup and wand-like thing and some bowls and screws). the cursor doesn't change as you scroll around. hint:

SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
don't let that stop you.

see what's behind the doors, and notice what happens when you open another door. hint:

SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
there are eight different types of fires burning behind the doors.

another hint:

SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
the goal is to open all the doors.

when you've solved that puzzle (for some reason, no cheering just subdued bells), you find the last grotto, with a telescope. for some reason, when you look through the telescope, you see a spider. this is not a clue.
when you click on the view through the telescope, you end up looking at a star-chart of the zodiac. hint:

SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
you're trying to find something to click on.

bigger hint:

SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
it's related to something you did earlier.

biggest hint:

SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
you'll recognize it when you see it.

plus,

SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
the cursor changes, or at least it did once for me.

that's it, the end. hopefully they mean it when they say "a suivre"....

Comment 33, Saturday, November 12th 2005 05:44:00 PM

Caroline /Swe

:
Meme - thank yoou thank you thank you!
The only parts i might have figured out for myself was the
[spoiler]"memory game"[/spoiler] of the boxes, and the finale in the telescope.

Did any1 else have trouble w the game freezing? I had to reload and start over about 4 times.

A very nicely made game I must say, beautiful artistic work!

Comment 34, Sunday, November 13th 2005 11:47:00 AM

Meme

:
no problem Caroline/Swe.

for spoilers, don't use square brackets [
use diagonal brackets <

Comment 35, Sunday, November 13th 2005 04:58:00 PM

Alex

:
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Ha ha ha

Comment 36, Friday, December 2nd 2005 04:09:00 AM

Alex

:
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Comment 37, Friday, December 2nd 2005 04:09:00 AM

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