This little skiff took the ultimate plunge - it transported the dead to the Egyptian Afterlife. The preview pictures from other cases shown at the end of the demo are possibly mockups, judging by minor differences in the positioning of characters, but this is the only one that really contains any changes of interest: a path was added to the mountains on the left side of the screen to make it more obvious that there's an exit there. The graphic of the torch on the boat was redrawn and recolored for the final to match its appearance in the inventory. The similar "take another case?" prompt in the final game, which has identical yes/no graphics, doesn't use these consequently, they're omitted from the mockup animation above. These graphics, which are just copies of parts of the previous animation with inverted colors, may have been meant to provide a smoother transition between the larger and smaller graphics. Presumably someone realized that anyone who really wanted to play again could just relaunch the game. This prompt to play again looks like it should be used at the end of the demo, but isn't.
The final versions of the entrance animations are more elaborate but less unique. Here's part of Renee's departure animation – the rest of it seems to have been removed from the demo.
Naturally, they're mangled similarly to Ann's. Renee Santz doesn't appear in the demo, but Time Tunnel graphics of her appear in the data files anyway. The post-case review graphic isn't displayed in the demo, which is good since it's sorely lacking in looking like a sarcophagus instead of a filing cabinet. Note that the animation shown isn't 100% accurate Sir Vile's movements are much faster and jerkier in-game. Apparently the awkward resizing job to get the boatman in the frame was a no-go.Īnn Tickwittee's Time Tunnel graphics are slightly, uh, off in the demo.Īnn's Time Tunnel exit sequence is just as unpolished as her entrance. The preview image of Egypt shown in the pre-case Time Tunnel sequence was redone for the final. The final trades it out for a prerendered Broderbund logo sequence and a smaller, more polished Carmen animation. The demo version has a much more elaborate title animation. There's plenty of room left over on both game discs, so perhaps the developers tried and failed to cram everything onto one CD.ĭue to technical limitations on displaying animated GIF files of large file sizes, please click here to see the full-size animated image. The Time Tunnel graphics are uncompressed in the demo, but use standard Mohawk engine LZ compression in the final for some reason.This is probably part of the reason the game installs its own fonts in the final. Sentences wind up repeated, cut off, displayed behind images, etc. The Chronopedia text, aside from being in an early draft state, is extremely poorly formatted.When using items, it tends to flicker on and off seemingly at random as the cursor moves across the screen. The command text on the inventory bar is also buggy.To give just a few examples: Once they're activated, the game will play the activation animation again every time they're picked up and released picking them up while they're activating will cause a static image of the deactivated cuffs to get stuck behind the animation of the activated cuffs etc., etc. The Time Cuffs are very buggy in the demo.Loading times between screens are extremely short in the demo compared to the final.Most animations other than characters talking play significantly faster in the demo than the final.The demo seems to depend on existing system fonts, while the final version installs a set of fonts with the game. The final uses a different set of fonts from the demo.The readme was greatly enlarged to accommodate this.
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