Nancy Drew: The Silent Spy Artwork Revealed!

Nancy Drew: The Silent Spy cover artwork was revealed today! I think that the artwork looks pretty neat. I can't wait to see where this next Nancy Drew adventure takes me!

Sound Card Up and Running!

I got my sound card to finally work so I can finish up my video editing. However, I think I need a new computer mouse because the one I currently have is starting to glitch a lot. So if I were to record right now with my mouse in its current state, it wouldn't look too good. On the bright side I do have a nice spare mouse, but I don't know if it's necessary to pull that out right now because I might be able to fix my current mouse. Also, lately I've been kind of disconnected from the internet world in terms of my blogs, my YouTube, Twitter, etc. I'm going to fix that. I'll try to tweet more often, right entries on my blogs more often, update my Facebook page more often, and work more on recording, edited, and uploading my videos to YouTube.

Daily Dose of Nancy Drew and Humble Origin Bundle

So as you've probably noticed, I haven't been getting by daily dose of Nancy Drew video games. Luckly, I have an excuse. My sound card is dead. I'm starting to think that fate doesn't want me to do Nancy Drew video playthroughs because, to be quite frank, I never had computer issues until I started doing Nancy Drew playthroughs. That's not going to stop me though. I am in the middle of editing a Nancy Drew playthough video at the moment, or course it's not exciting that much because it's just a demo. I could edit it on another computer but I'm afraid some kind of setting might change on the video editor that will then change the video up a little bit without me knowing it. And just in case you were wondering, yes, it requires sound for me to edit the video that I want to edit. I would also like to announce a lovely little deal I found while I was looking around on slickdeals.net. It's a bundle of 6 games (Action/Adventure type deal) that you can buy for a total of (your price here.) That's right you get to choose your price! It can't be anything under a dollar, which is what I paid, and you split up the money that you paid for the game for different charities and the Humble tip (If you want to include a Humble tip.)These games are only the downloadable copies, not the physical copies. You have the choice of either downloading the games for Origin, or, for Steam. One game can only be downloaded for Origin though. If you pay at least $4.71 for the bundle then you also get the codes for Battlefield 3 and The Sims 3 Starter Pack. (Those two games can only be downloaded through Origin.) Now, some of these games aren't the type of games that I would do playthroughs for, as they are too violent or just not something that I would do for my YouTube channel. For more information on the Humble Origin Bundle, just click this.

Update on Sadness

Well if you've read my last post then you'll know why the title of this post is what it is. I finally got a reply from the company of Action! Their reply did not make my happy in any way. Here's what they said, "Sadly there's no possibility to retrieve your videos. Due technical reasons Action! is deleting the videos permanently. Every file delete try is confirmed by a pop-up window that asks you if you really want to delete your selected files."

I think I'm crying on the inside.

Tale of Woe

So I use this screen recorder called Action!, and I absolutely love it! However, I found out the hard way this morning that this is a flaw to it. I was finishing off the Nancy Drew demos because, well, it's about time I finish them. All I needed to do was record the Shadow at the Water's Edge demo. So, I started to record. Well, somewhere along the way I messed up so I stopped recording and went to the Action! dashboard where I was going to delete that one clip. I right clicked that one clip, and here's that one flaw, well, the menu thing showed up. At the top it said delete selected file, and directly below it was an option of deleting ALL files. I was in a hurry and clicked what I thought was the first choice, delete selected file. Wrong. I actually clicked the second option, delete all files, but I didn't even realize it. A box showed up that asked if I really wanted to delete all the videos, but that same box always shows up when I want to delete one video, so I didn't read it. Nope, I just automatically pushed yes, and that's when everything disappeared. At first I just thought "darn it", but I wasn't too unhappy because I just thought that I could go into the recycle bin and restore the clips. Well, here's the other flaw of this program. When you delete something from it, it saves you the trouble and effort of going into the recycle bin and clicking delete all by yourself by permanently deleting it for you. That's when I started to panic. I quickly emailed to company - and still waiting for a reply, then I went onto the internet to look at programs that would restore "permanently" deleted files. I found a pretty good one, but to no avail. It found all these other files that have been deleted from the recycle bin except for the files I needed... the videos! Now I'm pretty depressed because I spent some time trying to record all 6 of those demos and now they're gone. You might be thinking that they're just demos, and they'll be easy to complete, but even though that may be true, I wanted all of those demos to be as perfect as I could have possibly made them. Now I have to re-record them, and I won't do that until I get a reply back from the company that developed Action! Also, I just want a break from the Phantom of Venice demo with all puzzles and whatnot.

Ramblings About Doctor Who

It's story time! This time it's time for My Doctor Who Problems. I was at a friends house and I couldn't leave. (The situation is complicated and too hard to explain.) Anyway, it was a Saturday night (March 30th, 2013 to be exact) and all fellow Whovians know what that means. It means that it was the premier of the second part of the seventh season of Doctor Who. And yes, I typed DOCTOR Who, not DR. Who. People who abbreviate the Doctor in Doctor Who give me a rash. I mean, it's not supposed to be abbreviated! And one more thing, he's not called Doctor Who, he's called THE DOCTOR! Back to the story. My friends have Cox so I was spending most of my day watching the Doctor Who marathon at their house. Well, my friends had to leave to go to a wedding so I was transported to another friend's house less than 6 minutes away. They just so happened to have Cox too. When I stepped into my friend's house I immediately ran down to the den to continue where I left off in my Doctor Who marathon. Here's the thing. I was so excited to watch it, but was horribly disappointed when I found out that they didn't get BBC America! I honestly thought that they would get that channel considering they had the same cable provider as my other friends, lived in the same city and state, and also lived less than 6 minutes away! I mean you could walk there! Anyhow, I was stuck in that house for the rest of the day, and I couldn't even watch the new episode of Doctor Who. My whole evening was ruined. I was able to watch Wichita State go up against Ohio State, but all I could think about was the time. Before seven o' clock I couldn't even keep my eyes on the television, only the clock. And while staring at the clock all I could think about was "I'm going to miss my Doctor Who episode" and "I hope they hurry the wedding up so I can get back to my other friend's house." Selfish, I know, but I really didn't care, I just really wanted to watch my Doctor Who! Here's the sad part of the story, and when I say sad, I mean you'll probably feel bad for me, as in, I need help. When seven o' clock hit I started to softly weep, knowing that I wouldn't be able to watch the new episode of Doctor Who that night. Tears were running down my face, and I kept telling myself "stop it, I can't get everything that I want" but it didn't help. The upside is that I never did full out cry thanks to my unemotional-less-ness! (Or emotional-less-ness, whatever means that I'm not emotional.) The End.

Ghost of Thornton Hall Box Art

The box art for Ghost of Thornton Hall has been revealed!

Video Recording is Officially A GO!

Alright so I have a new program that records gameplay better than CamStudio did, so I’m going to start off redoing everything including the DEMOs (which is the first thing on my list to finish!)

Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device Official Trailer

Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device pre-orders start today, which also means that Her Interactive has released their official trailer for the game.

Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device Box Art

Her Interactive also has the page up for Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device.

Unexpected Trip

So I took a vacation, and when I got back I was so excited to be able to finish up part 5 of SSH and finally edit, finalize, and upload it! Not too long after I got back from this trip did I finish editing it, but after I finished editing it, an unexpected trip came up. I have to go to Washington, and won't be able to finalize, and upload the video until I get back. I'm kind of sad about it because according to YouTube I haven't uploaded a video in a month, and that's WAY too long to keep you waiting, but when I get back from the trip, I'll finalize the video, then upload it!

Video Recording Problems

So, many of you guys have probably heard tell you that I've run into troubles. It's either my computer breaks down once, then I get it back and everything's gone, or parts of a video is messed up, and I'll need to redo it. Stuff like that. Well, I just need to tell you that it seems like with recording Nancy Drew games, bad luck comes. Anyways, I'm hear to tell you that something else happened. I kind of told about it in one of my blog posts, Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand- Part 2 Update. Well, I tried to get the messed up part fixed so I replayed the game again and after I finished that someone came and closed my laptop lid when I wasn't looking. Well, I was supposed to save it but for some reason I didn't. That was a big mistake. I've learned the hard way in the past that if my laptop falls asleep, or somebody closes the lid while the game is still in play mode, basically wasn't exited out of, then when I awake the laptop, I'm basically opening the lid up to a black screen with an error message in the middle. That error message is telling me that there was an error and it's now going to force quit the application, in my case the Nancy Drew game. So that's what I was afraid of when I went back to the laptop and the lid was down. When I opened it the game was forced quit and I forgot to save too, so now I have to play it again. Hopefully it won't take that long, and if I get that part re-recorded, then the editing should be a breeze since that part of the game is all I have to add in. Everything else is already edited. After I get that done then I should be able to edit parts 3 and 4 then upload parts 2-4 up onto YouTube.

Interesting Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device Artwork

Okay, so this is obviously the fake artwork for the upcoming Nancy Drew game The Deadly Device, but I thought that it was pretty cool, so I decided to share it with you guys.

How to Install Older Nancy Drew Games to Windows Vista/7

I got questions about how to install older Nancy Drew to newer operating systems, so here's the answer. To Install older Nancy Drew games, like the original Secrets Can Kill for example, make a folder for the game. This folder can be named whatever you want. I would personally name it Secrets Can Kill, just because that would be the game that I’m installing. Now, this should work for all other old Nancy Drew games. Anyways, you can also put this folder on your desktop, or wherever. Now you can start the actual installation of the game. As you’re in the Nancy Drew setup, just keep installing it as you usually would, but stop when you get into the part of the setup that tells you the folder it will be installing it into. In my case, since I’m installing Secrets Can Kill, it will probably tell me that it will be installing in to a folder named: C:\Nancy Drew\Secrets Can Kill. You’ve probably seen this folder for all games that start with the C:\. If want this game to work on you’re newer operating system (Windows Vista/7) then you DO NOT want your game to install in the default C:\ folder. Instead install it in the new folder that you created. Once you’ve told the program to install it in that folder, then just install it like normal and once it’s done try playing the game and it should work!

Editing to my Blog

This post is kind of random and really contains nothing about Nancy Drew. You've may or may not have noticed but I've added a music player on to the top of my blog! I tried adding 23 more Nancy Drew tracks on to it, but it didn't let me. However Tumblr allowed me, so if you care to listen to some Nancy Drew music click here for my Tumblr blog. The purpose of adding a music player to my blogs was so if you were reading something on my blog, then you could listen to some Nancy Drew music, although with some people music makes it harder to read, but it's your choice. Also, I would just like to state that everything that's posted or gets posted on this blog also get posted to my Tumblr.