Nancy Drew: The Shattered Medallion Teaser Trailer

Today I finished up The Silent Spy, and let me just say, it was a great game! Anyways, so you know how at the end of most of the Nancy Drew games they show a teaser trailer of the next game coming up? Well, since I finished The Silent Spy, I got to see a teaser trailer of the next Nancy Drew game. I'm not quite sure how to respond to it. It didn't give out much information about the upcoming game, except for the fact that it's going to take place in New Zealand. (At least that's what they lead you to believe.) But I guess they just wanted to leave ND fans in suspense. They also didn't give any information about what mystery Nancy could be solving, for all I know it probably involves a medallion of some sort, and it could very well be shattered... Well, anyway, I recorded the teaser trailer at the end of the game and posted it to YouTube. Here it is!

        

Nancy Drew: The Silent Spy Official Trailer

Yesterday the official trailer for the upcoming Nancy Drew game, The Silent Spy, was released. After seeing this trailer, I'm even more excited than I was before to start playing this game. I didn't even know that was possible!

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!

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.

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.

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!

Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand- Part 2 Update

So I already uploaded Part 1, and I was hoping to upload part 2, but while I was finishing the editing of Part 2, I realized that in the end of the video, the video shifts to the right a little. Well, it seems that I accidentally put the wrong coordinates that the screen recorder is supposed to record, so now some of the Nancy Drew game is cut-off! Sadly, that's a part of the video that was saved, but then I saved something else over it. On the bright side it's an easy fix, but everything is going to have to match up perfectly, so I'm starting the game over to get to that point, and the next video of SSH probably won't be uploaded until either later tonight, or tomorrow.

Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device Teaser Trailer

So here's a teaser of the upcoming Nancy Drew game, Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device

Tomb of the Lost Queen Arrived in the Mail!

Just got Tomb of the Lost Queen in the mail. My plan that I posted on my blog will continue, except it's going to be changed up just a little, basically I'm finishing Secret of the Scarlet Hand, then on to Tomb of the Lost Queen and so on.

My Secret of the Scarlet Hand Re-Do Update

Okay, so believe it or not, I actually spent the whole day re-doing Secret of the Scarlet Hand, and here's the unbelievable part. Only two parts got done. Part 1 is going to be about 14 minutes long, and Part 2 is going to be a little less than 13 minutes long. I can't wait to try and finish it up tomorrow! It'll be just in time for Tomb of the Lost Queen since I ordered the physical copy.

Do Over!

So, last night I accidentally deleted the first part of part 5, and I can't figure it out, so I'm just going to do the whole walkthrough over. I have absolutely nothing to do today, so I'll just play Nancy Drew the whole day. Who knows? I might finish the whole walkthrough of it, it just won't be posted to YouTube. Then when I get Tomb of the Lost Queen, which should be tomorrow, I should be able to start that. After I'm done with editing and I get the videos on YouTube of course.

New Tomb of the Lost Queen Screenshots! (Continued)

New Nancy Drew Cursors

So of course if there's a new interface for the Nancy Drew games, then there's bound to be new cursors of course. Here they are:

The first cursor is the gem arrrow which is used for scrolling up and down, like in a task list or something like that. The second one is the rotating cursor, which is obviously used for rotating. The third one is something different, the hand! The hand is used for touching, grabbing, and manipulating objects. The bubble is for talking to characters in the game. Then, there's the big arrow, which is used to navigate around the game. Lastly, the fancy magnifying glass is used for looking close up at objects. It will light up when you can zoom into something.

New Tomb of the Lost Queen Screenshots! (Continued)

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Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen Trailer

Egyptologists and archaeologists are abuzz about recent discoveries by a university dig team, but suspicious accidents left the group isolated and leaderless. Is a curse burying their progress or is someone sabotaging their success? Find out as you assume the role of Nancy Drew and uncover the lost secrets buried within the Tomb of the Lost Queen!