The Filmmaker - A Text Adventure

What can i say. I only played for 1 hour and i`m already in love with this game. The writing style is really great and it`s really enjoyable in general. This is a sure reccommendation for any puzzle fan (yes, this game includes a lot of puzzles in combination with a lot of text), but be sure to also check out Shady Brook or Lifestream. I´ll write a more detailed review after i`ve fully completed the game!

I'm 2 hours in, so I can't say much about the story yet. But I can already say it's a fun game with a great atmosphere and interesting characters. Brianna, a b-movie fan like myself, is a very relatable protagonist. I don't feel bombarded with walls of text, but I still get lots of information about people, the setting and the puzzles, which is a big plus. I'm also a big fan of the music and artwork. All in all, the game captures the atmosphere and allure of small movie theatres and the cult around b-movies very well. I generally don't play much text-based games, but the setting and story sold me on this. Also encountered a bug and got support and a solution within a few hours.

I recently played The Filmmaker, to completion, on an Android Tablet so my hours shown here are minimal. As much as I love the portability of a tablet, this game is even better with a larger screen! This is a wonderful game that I give an 'A' to in my [url=http://justadventure.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3868] review at Just Adventure[/url]. Great story, well developed characters, throughtfully integrated puzzles, heroic quest... The Filmmaker has it all. I encourage those with a fondness for interactive fiction to check out this title as well as LifeStream and Shady Brook.

Just Finished the Story and in waiting for the release of Stonewall Penitentiary. I hope to give an exaustive review on why you guys should buy and play this title first. So from the remakes of the original games/stories released by Unimatrix Productions: Lifestream, Shady Brook, The Filmmaker. this one is the last (for now) in a ever interesting Supernatural/Dark Mysteries interactive fiction series. Originally released in 2010 and remade two years ago is totally worthy for me to get because it got in it two things: Movies and Ghosts. You will be shown the possibility to travel inside 5 Black and white movies to release the trapped souls of the deceased Movie theatre staff. each movie got a different theme: Noir (Phillip Marlowe style), Ghotic Horror (Inspired by Nosferatu), Cartoon (I get a feeling this is in a way a parody to childish cartoons like teletubbies but twisted in nature and thought as if they were created in the 20s), Sci-Fi (A nod to low budget sci-fi black and white mo...

That was a fun game to play. It tells a fantastic story where you explore a movie theater as well as enter 6 different B-movies. You will encounter ghosts, an hungry vampire, a very scary monster, adorable bunny-like fuzzies that love eating children, and a big bad demon that feeds on souls and whose killing spree you'll have to stop! The writing is well done and the story compelling. There are many puzzles (more than in previous titles I think), most of them solved by paying attention to what you read. In all, a very enjoyable game to play. I recommend if you like reading!

This game has a very interesting story that you must gradually uncover. The game is like a classic text adventure with locations and an inventory. At each location you are presented with interaction options that you must select with the mouse. It uses static artwork for locations and events that arise from interaction selections. The artwork is very well done and the music really adds to whole experience. You can tell that a lot of thought and effort went into the plotline. You play as Brianna, a young woman who has been invited to a special screening of films by her favourite director, Claude Ferucil. When Brianna arrives at the theatre she finds it abandoned and a mystery is presented. The game is creepy and weird at times, even downright unsettling. Being a text adventure, the gameplay is a bit slow as you must gather clues and piece together what has happened in the past - but eventually all will be revealed. The developers give you enough information to get past the puzz...

This became tedious quickly, when I could not find a way to get water to the toilet. Using the sink is constantly interpreted as wanting to wash my hands. I wanted to get water to the toilet. I could not use the water in the toilet, because that would mean opening the lid. I found no container that could be used to transport water to the toilet either. I'm here to play, which means that I do not want to spend hours re-searching. I took everything I could and nothing looked useful to me. Maybe an extended hint system would be helpful.

I recall many hours spent puzzling over text adventures on the Commodore 64. Who knew that in 2019 they'd still have fans and new incarnations? The Filmmaker has a decent amount of atmosphere and a mildly involving story, though it does get a bit exhausting and long-winded towards the end. It's good for playing in short 30-minute bursts until completion and will give you a nice nostalgic feeling for simpler times if you ever got to play them back in the day, but it won't last long and you'll be grateful games did manage to evolve light years past this. Some expensive trading cards and a decent amount of achievements are included too.

Lifestream, Shady Brook and The Filmmaker are the first three episodes (in this order) of a planned long series, whose fourth episode is Stonewall Penitentiary and the upcoming fifth one is Summit of the Wolf. These episodes are (seemingly) very loosely connected, so each of them can be played on their own, but it is easy to see the connections and the slowly emerging overarching themes. The first three episodes have a certain kind of choose-your-adventure-style interface, but the author still manages to integrate meaningful puzzles, which are mostly inventory-based. The main draw of these games however are the stories. All the stories are very different and their mood ranges from dark to extremely dark. :) But for lovers of good stories they are very much recommended.

I haven't played a text adventure in many years, so it was a bit of an adjustment to get reacquainted with this game, but the benefit of this game is that it goes beyond the black screen with white/gray texts that any text adventure aficionado would have played or remembered. It is a bit of a mystery game and there's a lot of questions throughout the game, but it is an interesting and fun game.