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My name's Chris Tolworthy. I'm in my early forties, I live in Scotland, and I like games with a really good story: something substantial, something with depth that goes beyond the game. And I like a big game world - I hate coming to end of a street and finding I can't go any further! And I want it upbeat, inspirational, and easy to play. One day I figured I was pretty hard to please, so decided to make my own game.
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Les Miserables: the Game of The Book is now freeware!
This free release is in fulfillment of a promise made to the Spanish composer Paco Santiago. He allowed his live music to be used in the game on condition that one day the game would be free. This is in memory of his brother, Miguel Santiago, who passed away in 2001. Santaugo's music, like the game, deals with themes like loss, obsession, desperation, and hope. Other music on the game includes classics such as Faure's Requiem and Buckner's 'Ave Maria.'
ABOUT THE GAME
It's a unique adventure game, previously sold for 14.99, the most first and most popular of the Enter The Story franchise so far. It's a story of love and death, tragedy and redemption, justice and persuit, and is faithful to the original novel by Victor Hugo.
See what you think: visit Enterthestory.com and follow the word "free"
Enter The Story needs photos of ordinary people to star in the next game: Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. Anyone can send in their photo. No purchase necessary! Full details, examples, and where to send photos: Enterthestory.com
Closing date: March 7th 2010
This is your chance to be immortal!
As a teenager I loved the comic adaptations of classic novels. Here were the world's greatest stories, told in words and pictures, in a condensed form. Now imagine if somebody made something like this today, but made it interactive and animated... and what if you could become part of the story! You could open a book and climb inside! And all the books were joined together to make a huge, amazing world full of amazing events and amazing characters! And the world was endless, you could go out into space, or back in time, or anywhere! Wouldn't that be cool?
Then in the early 1990s I discovered a game called Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders. It was a comedy, but was much more than that. It starred an ordinary person in the ordinary world. It was full of New Age ideas, and spanned the whole globe, and the past and the future, and out into space.
It was a revelation! The technology now exists to put unlimited ideas into a game! The whole universe on a disk! Endless stories that could join together to make an even bigger story! And you could get inside and explore and be part of the story and make it happen!
I waited for a game like that to be made, but it never was. So by 1997 I began making plans to do it myself. It took twelve years, but in 2009 the first story was ready - Les Miserables. Then in August I followed up with The Divine Comedy (you probably know it better as Dante's Inferno). Then in January 2010 came Genesis of the Gods (based on The Theogony, the original gods-versus-Titans story from the sixth century BC), and I'm now working on A Tale of Two Cities. Over the next thirty years I plan to add a hundred different stories.
If you have a favorite story (and it's out of copyright) let me know, and I'll probably make it into a game!
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