Entre no papel de Ollie, um repórter novato que inicia seu estágio no jornal Signal & Echo, em Runeton, Inglaterra. Ele espera apenas reescrever releases na mesa, mas cai em uma verdadeira pauta quente: encontrar a estudante desaparecida Iris Wood. Este indie casual adventure mistura clássicos de point-and-click com um parser de texto inovador para investigações mais profundas.
Os jogadores usam comandos verbais e puzzles de inventário junto ao parser para interrogar personagens, vasculhar o arquivo de computadores do jornal e desbloquear pontos no mapa. O sistema reconhece automaticamente nomes próprios e hotspots do jogo, de Iris Wood a itens ao alcance. Anote pistas e aplique lógica do mundo real para resolver enigmas e impressionar os colegas. Fãs de casual adventures que curtem anotações detalhadas e diálogos guiados por parser vão se identificar com a corrida de Ollie para estourar a matéria.
Just gimme the gist!
Informed by the developer’s past career in journalism, you play as Ollie, a wannabe reporter on his first day of work experience at the Signal & Echo newspaper, in the fictional town of Runeton, England.
Ollie thought he’d be chained to his desk all day, rewriting press releases. Instead, he’s been given a real assignment: find out what happened to missing schoolgirl Iris Wood.
Using a unique text parser system, alongside traditional point-and-click mechanics, help Ollie impress his colleagues and break the story wide open!
What’s this about a ‘unique’ text parser?
Alongside the verb interactions and inventory puzzles found in many traditional adventure games, Signal and Echo: Iris is Missing uses an innovative text parser system—for conversations, searching the newspaper’s computer archive, and finding new locations on your map.
The system recognises any proper noun (i.e. capitalised noun, like John Smith, London, or The Beatles), so long as you’ve found it in-game. It also accepts the name of any hotspot, from any location, including inventory items.
This means you can ask anyone about any of these things. You'll need to take notes out in the real world and really think for yourself! (All the puzzles use real-world logic, as opposed to cartoon or moon logic.)
