In Memoriam - a disturbingly cool new adventure?

[Intrepid Homoludens]

http://www.inmemoriam-thegame.com/img/popup/6.jpg

title - In Memoriam
genre - Adventure
developer - Lexis Numerique
publisher - UbiSoft
official site (http://www.inmemoriam-thegame.com/index2.htm#)


I'm really surprised no one here has mentioned this game. Very little press coverage, which is strange, considering that it's being released by the presently ubiquitous UbiSoft (Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time), and that it's supposed to come out in less than 2 weeks! (October 16 to be exact) It looks absolutely intriguing!

A suspense thriller mystery adventure in the spirit of such movies as se7en and The Blair Witch Project, with inflections from the game Majestic. The story will have you investigate the mysterious vanishing of two young journalists, consequently whisking you away to locales like Paris and Istanbul, tracking down information, studying clues, and tackling some dark enigmas. The main feature of the game is that you will move beyond the game to use the actual Internet as a key part of your investigation, along with seeing disturbing cinematics, websites that may or may not be real, saturations of the occult, and archaeological references. If anyone can add more than I have, please do! Thanks. I'm hoping this game will be a cool new adventure experience.

The website offers an atmospheric trailer.

[nordic_guy]

Looks very interesting. I've always wondered why internet hasn't been used as an active part of investigation in a game more often.
Although I'm not really a fan of these types of adventure games, I might look into this one.

[pleto4_ryan]

websites that may or may not be real

:eek:

very interesting

[Swordmaster]

This game looks very cool, I love the (visual) style.

[Royal Fool]

Cool art, the premise is a bit like The Stone (http://www.thestone.com/). (Players have to use the internet and possibly other sources to solve the puzzles) The trailer indicates that the game uses FMV cutscenes, which in turn reminds me of Spycraft. (Spycraft was FMV-heavy and also had you going online to gather additional information on both real and fictional webpages)

This game certainly has me interested. Strange that it has had almost no media exposure... it isn't mentioned on Ubi Soft's website, either.

[Royal Fool]

Found some more at Ubi Soft's store:

A unique investigation experience to track a serial killer.

Reality and fiction are blurred in this movie style thriller game.

Enter the game of a serial killer using e-mail, the internet and movie footage to solve his puzzles in a dark and thrilling environment.

Features:

Original concept: a CD-Rom created by a Serial Killer:
- The Serial Killer rules the game and manipulates the player how he wants. Can you out fox him?
- Total immersion, with 40 puzzles to be solved.
- Absorbing and never seen before script: the Serial Killer holds all the cards. You must interact with him to get the clues needed to solve the mystery of Jack Lorski?s disappearance.

Captivating and strong atmosphere taken from the best Thrillers:
- Feel the suspense with high quality sound and visuals.
- A credible and breath taking script.
- Inspired by movies such as The Silence of the Lambs and Seven?

A blend of reality and fiction:
- Based on real facts.
- You will have to visit both real web sites and extremely realistic fake sites, created for the game and integrated into the world wide web.
- Receive More than 40 e-mails, which build the story and are integrated in to the script.
- More than 45 minutes of real movie footage, featuring professional actors, and many sequences created by the Serial Killer.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Thanks, Fool. :)

http://www.thebonecollector.com/media/media_photos_pipes_large.jpg

Heh heh, the game is also thematically similar to The Bone Collector (http://www.thebonecollector.com/home.html), that movie with Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. This is so uncanny, for a long time I've wanted an adventure or adventure/action game that pits the player against a highly intelligent serial killer, and now I'm getting my wish with In Memoriam and the upcoming Hannibal (http://hannibal.arxeltribe.com/) (providing arxel tribe can still finish it).

[remixor]

I heard about this some time ago and was also wondering why I didn't hear much about it. I went to the official website and was quite interested, then I thought I heard it was released. Obviously not :rolleyes: I totally forgot about the game since then, but I'm definitely going to keep an eye on it now. Fascinating concept. I hope it pans out.

[DomStLeger]

I hope this is future proof though; if the sites go down then your £30 game is non replayable. Thats the only problem I see with it in the long term.

But it is intriguing. The Da Vinci Code book mentioned in the Chit Chat forum had a pretty fun online set of puzzles that worked quite well as part of the promotional campaign for the game. So good in fact that I'm actually going to read the book. So online fake websites etc can work really well and draw you into a mystery I think.

[amishler]

The Da Vinci Code book mentioned in the Chit Chat forum had a pretty fun online set of puzzles that worked quite well as part of the promotional campaign for the game. So good in fact that I'm actually going to read the book. So online fake websites etc can work really well and draw you into a mystery I think. That's what this game made me think of too, Dom, but I was afraid to mention for fear it would start another discussion (http://www.adventuregamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=325) on the impropriety of referring to Leonardo da Vinci as "da Vinci..." :) But yeah, that was a good bit of multimedia fun, and it sounds like a similar but simplified idea of what In Memoriam will try to pull off. I look forward to seeing whether they can do it.

[Marek]

The slogan "are you willing to play this?" is a little suspect. It's like the marketing departement's little inner demon speaking.

[Leonard Shelby]

Wow sounds intriguing and exciting for sure :9

I would like to know : is this a whole unique game and will you have to buy episode from it each month as a special realease :confused:

[Intrepid Homoludens]

I actually have no idea how it will be sold, Leonard. Very little has been revealed, and this infuriates me because it shows the ineptitude of adventure game publishers. If they so badly want to their games to sell, why the hell do they never use tactful, aggressive marketing :( :( :( ?!!!!!!!

[Erwin_Br]

I actually have no idea how it will be sold, Leonard. Very little has been revealed, and this infuriates me because it shows the ineptitude of adventure game publishers. If they so badly want to their games to sell, why the hell do they never use tactful, aggressive marketing :( :( :( ?!!!!!!!

Maybe adventure games don't sell good enough to finance tactful, aggressive marketing? :rolleyes:

--Erwin

[Intrepid Homoludens]

That's a stupid way of reasoning: No deposit? Then no return.

[Royal Fool]

That's a stupid way of reasoning: No deposit? Then no return.
Sure is, but I think you might be surprised how many 'educated' and 'experienced' marketing analysts and so forth think this way. It's totally dumb.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

No it isn't. Find the money, find the marketing talent. Your existence will not be known unless someone heralds you. You could have the most brilliant game on your hands, but it's worthless until it's well marketed.

[BacardiJim]

If I might offer an observation about the marketing of adventure games without having my past rhetoric held against me......

I have long held that adventure games should be marketed on TV. In particular, the American shows 24, The West Wing, Law & Order, and CSI are natural advertising spots for adventure games, in that they attract upper-income audiences who own computers and have above-average intelligence, enjoy a puzzle/challenge, and are in the "demographic" age group for the genre.

Why don't publishers take advantage of this marketing possibility? Because sales report figures show that there aren't enough adventure games purchased to justify spending the money for such a marketing campaign.

But... there is a fly in the ointment that keeps the marketing people from seeing the audience that exists.

Most adventure games are NOT purchased in stores, but are purchased online. This is partly a matter of mall penetration (or lack thereof), and partly a matter of the fact that stores don't carry many adventure games. This leads us to the real crux of the matter: MOST ONLINE GAME SALES AREN'T FIGURED INTO SALES REPORTS! A retailer must actually PAY in order to subscribe to the two big online sales reporting services. Very few of them do so. EB doesn't. GoGamer doesn't. The end result is that the majority of adventure game sales aren't ever tallied in industry reports.

This leads into a tightening circle: Publishers don't realize exactly how many games they are selling, and cut back on both production and marketing. Retailers see that they aren't selling many adventure games (largely because they don't order/carry many adventure games so people are buying them online) and they cut back on the number of adventure games they pre-order for their stores. Mistakenly low reports of sales figures convince publishers that they don't dare spend money marketing their next adventure game....

It ain't right, but it's how things are. Wanna see adventure games marketed better? Write a letter to your favorite publisher explaining that he needs to ignore what his market analysts tell him and ask the "guys in the factory" how many copies of a game they actually sold. ;)

[remixor]

I'm surprised that's not how publishers derive their data. You'd think it would be easier for them to get data directly from their own sales reports than from a third-party organization. Go figure :rolleyes:

[Intrepid Homoludens]

I rest my case. http://www.stupid-boy.com/smilies/otn/happy/mnod.gif

[remixor]

Well, I don't think anyone here would ever have argued that adventure games are currently being effectively marketed...

[Intrepid Homoludens]

At the top of the next page again, are we, mixie?

[BacardiJim]

What? It was that easy? I don't have to produce non-existent statistics about how most adventure game sales are never reported? ;)

[Intrepid Homoludens]

I prefer you did, but as you stated, there are no stats on online sales of adventures. http://www.computerpannen.com/cwm/otn/confused/ne_nau.gif How do you convince publishers to reformulate their marketing strategies if you can't provide them with evidence, but how do you get evidence when it's not available as a result of incompetent sales stat gathering?

BTW, I can say with much confidence that I represent fairly well one target demographic for adventure games. I have a college degree, shop online for my games, I frequent bookstores, electronics chains such as CompUSA and BestBuy, I frequent cultural institutions (museums, concerts, cinemas that show indie and foreign films, etc.). I can imagine TAC and Microids showing trailers for their games at the cinema before the movie comes on, I can imagine them showing commercials on such cable networks as Bravo and American Movie Channel, and even on PBS. I can see display setups for their games at my local Border's Books (near the Harry Potter display). I can visualize posters for an upcoming adventure game on the wall of my local coffeeshop.

[BacardiJim]

Joseph Heller wrote this cute little novel....

[remixor]

You don't have to produce actual statistics, but it would be nice if you would provide evidence that proves that you do indeed know how publishers arrive at sales figures.


At the top of the next page again, are we, mixie?

:P

[BacardiJim]

The only feasible way I see is to convince publishers to all chip in a few thousand bucks for the creation of an independent sales reporting company to which online retailers could report without it taking money out of their pockets.

[BacardiJim]

I already told you I managed a game retail outlet for 3 years, Remixor. Remember?

Gahhhhhhhhhhhh.........

[BacardiJim]

Trep: Your last edit hit awfully close to home. I know we have our differences, but I share those visions with you... in many of the same locations.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

I commute into the city to work (but plan to move back into the city in a few months). On the train I've seen several people using their laptops/notebooks to play games to pass the long ride (anything from solitaire to a pirate strategy game to even first person shooters like Jedi Knight 2), something I would do myself if I had a laptop/notebook (I'd play adventure games). Why can't publishers advertise their games in poster form in train stations and airports?

[jannar85]

WOW, I'm bought..

[Erwin_Br]

We're forgetting one thing though; developers (like Pendulo) often start working on their projects without a publisher. It's hard to find a good publisher, especially in this genre, so I guess there's not much to demand. Most developers are happy if they'll receive a decent amount of royalties.

--Erwin

[LauraMac]

We're forgetting one thing though; developers (like Pendulo) often start working on their projects without a publisher.

Truth is almost all adventure developers start and finish their game without a publisher. The standard deal is we package your game - charge off all our alleged marketing costs against royalties owed. If the game is sold through one of our retail partners - oops any special sales prices get charged off against your share and so on. And as for the royalty amounts - you would be shocked. Tri-synergy is a big step in the right direction for adventure games. They partner with the developer and do deals similar to current book publishing deals. The developer actually gets money worth talking about. Any developer who lands a decent selling game - can;t wait to pull out of their "publishing deal" and self publish. One look at Microids and Syberia 2 is evidence in that direction. If a publishing deal was that great for them - why not re-sign with The Adventure Company? Not that some developers don't have the clout to pull in sweetheart deals, but for the most part they just hope to re-coup some of their solitary expense in building the game in the first place.

As for marketing - adventure games are at best interactive graphical stories. SO they should be partnered with book stores. MOst adventure gamers (though not all to be sure) are readers. eg. Nancy Drew games - have a joint display of the books and the games. Now you don;t need to explain what they are - they are interactive Nancy Drew stories. Sold to all who buy the books. If its Schizm 2. Put it on display with all the anime and sci fi graphic novels (fancy word for adult sci fi comic books) Is it a horror fest - well I know where it should be displayed. Great or even decent adventure games are more than games. They are tales with believable characters and amazing locales, challenges and music to soar with. Put them with movies and books. Don't shove them all within twitch games and traditional games. I enjoy those too - but they ain't the same and shouldn't be sold the same way.

[remixor]

Though I don't particularly disagree with any of the suggestions so far, I have to say that Trep and LauraMac have really hit the nail on the head with the bookstore idea. You're not going to catch any more hardcore adventure gamers (or hardcore anything gamers), but you're going to appeal to adventure's still-biggest (I would think) untapped market, which is casual or non-gamers. Those are the people who would probably enjoy a game, but who maybe don't have the best computer available and who don't have the finely honed reflexes to properly enjoy a more action-based game. Please note that this last comment has nothing to do with point+click vs. direct control, I'm simply saying adventures in GENERAL are slower paced and thus more manageable to non-gamers regardless of control system. I also like the idea of matching games to their "genres", so to speak. Adventure games can be varied enough that this is a real possibility. People like us play all the (good) adventure games around, but people in bookstores who wouldn't otherwise do so are probably only looking for the type of thing they already enjoy.

Bookstores are already expanding their inventories, with things like graphic novels, CDs, and other non-traditional bookstore stuff, so it would seem to me that story- and dialogue-based adventure games fall into a natural progression.

[DomStLeger]

I think this bookstore idea is very good... perhaps one of the adventure publishers should do a small scale trial; with a display of free demo CDs and games to buy in a small chain of bookstores local to their business? I'm not sure about the demographics etc; but logically adventures are not massively removed from books and so perhaps as you've all said it is worth trying.

[carlitoxxi]

Are you ready for this? This game seems great. You have to search more deeply.

See this... www.skl-network.com

[Intrepid Homoludens]

*D 8-) That is awesome, carlitoxxi!! Thanks!

Everyone, click the link. It is one of the 'websites' you'll be visiting in your investigation while playing In Memoriam. This site in particular posts a brief news story announcing the disappearance of the reporter in the story in the game. Well done!

[Royal Fool]

Wow, you have to be kidding? That site is pretty authentic...

EDIT: And in other news, Ubi Soft has launched the game's new website (http://www.inmemoriam-thegame.com). Maybe that's where carlitoxxi got his info from? In any case, wow. The plot sounds really cool, with all that stuff...

And the developer's website: http://www.lexis-games.com/.

[DomStLeger]

Wow; reading those sites had got me rather interested. And it seems to be coming out in the uk on the 16th too; one I'm going to get I think...

[carlitoxxi]

[QUOTE=Royal Fool]Maybe that's where carlitoxxi got his info from? In any case, wow. The plot sounds really cool, with all that stuff...QUOTE]

Nope :-) In the italian homepage of Ubisot, http://www.ubisoft.it/giochi/modelli/scheda_giochi.php?gamesID=1061361662 , there was a e-mail address for contact jack. It was jack@sklnetwork.com

But the address not exist. The webpage not exist. I've do some search and i've found the real site www.skl-network.com

I can amaze you? I've found ten sites, all ingame, and before the inmemoriam site was up :devil:

Search deep in it guys, is too amusing.

Oh, don't forget to use googling ;)

[Intrepid Homoludens]

:eek: Ooh! Stop already! I started clicking around the official game site (http://www.inmemoriam-thegame.com/gb/index.htm) (thanks for the link, Fool!). I actually felt myself drawn deeper into the stuff. Thank gawd I'm here at work or I'd vanish for hours! LOL

Extracts from the psychological profile of David Marcus

"He's sexually frustrated, insensitive, immoral, stubborn and unstable. In short, the classic core of a psychopathic personality.

One this is certain: The Phoenix hunts down his future victims via the Internet..."

Missing:

Lorski, Jack
40 yo, 1m79, weighs 80 kg, brown hair, brown eyes
---
Nationality: French/Polish
Profession: Journalist, SKL Networks
---
- Used to travel for many different TV reports on wars in the 90’s (incl. Yougoslavia & Rwanda)
- Awarded the Bodard prize for his scoop that helped to put an end to the traffic in human organs in the Balkans
- Was investigating a serial killer before disappearing

Missing:

Gijman, Karen
32 yo, 1m61, weighs 53 kg, blond hair, hazel eyes
---
Nationality: Dutch
Profession: Independent Illustrator
---
- Was traveling with Jack before disappearing

They have not given any signs of life since February 4, 2003.
If you know their whereabouts OR have ANY information as to where they might be P L E A S E contact

A. Dahon: info@skl-network.com / skl-network.com

[Zanthia]

Sorry, but possibility 2 play through internet doesn't sound 2 good 4 me. What about those who have small broadband and play games while they are off-line?

[Intrepid Homoludens]

What are you complaining about? According to UbiSoft you will be able to play it on a slower connection! Besides, this game will be for those of us who love investigating while using the Internet. I think it's damn exciting.

[Zanthia]

Most people I know who have slow connection play games while the are OFF LINE. For with slow connection you pay for the time that you r on-line.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Then the game isn't for them. Simple. Kaput. :)

[Royal Fool]

You don't have to be connected all the time, only when you actually surf the web or send/receive e-mail. The developers say that a 56.6 Modem will do the job. The cutscenes, music and overall content will all be stored on the CD (It must be, only logical explanation that it's modem-friendly) so it won't put too much of a strain on the bandwidth.

[remixor]

Zanthia, you really only need to be able to go to websites, and you're obviously capable of doing that since you regularly post on this website. When you're not using the internet for the game, don't connect. If that's not satisfactory, don't buy the game.

[Leonard Shelby]

Wow i definitively can t wait this game anymore !

It s really really innovative and exciting .

Using the web while playing it is a genuine idea : i m so additcted to the web it will be a pleasure receiving e mails from the killer (when i m not expecting it) and surfing on true and fake sites

I m just wondering if the developper is good or not : this french Lexis 'site is really annoying with lots of games for kids and not really the kind of game i m looking for and i m wondering which good game they did make before that one :confused:

I m not a fan of FMV too so I really hope to be immersed into the game :eek:

I m from France and there s definitively no publicity about that game anywhere (especially in french video games' magazines :rolleyes:)

[Pappapisshu]

Wow. Reading the stuff on the SKL-network page, watching the amatuer videos, and such made me really interested in this game. The potential of actually doing your own research, not following a straight path, is amazing. For example, I'm sure that the two pictures of Jack's desk, as he had disappeared, have some importance to the investigation. It's just to figure out what it can be/what to look for.

Awesome. :9~

[Royal Fool]

I m from France and there s definitively no publicity about that game anywhere (especially in french video games' magazines :rolleyes:)
Wow, that's very strange... I though Lexis Numerique has been rather successful with it's past games? (I mean, there's even a cartoon being made based on one of their game concepts, that's gotta mean they're worth something)

And in case you're new (Haven't seen you before), welcome to the forums.

[Zanthia]

You don't have to be connected all the time, only when you actually surf the web or send/receive e-mail. The developers say that a 56.6 Modem will do the job. The cutscenes, music and overall content will all be stored on the CD (It must be, only logical explanation that it's modem-friendly) so it won't put too much of a strain on the bandwidth.

Well since its not on-line game, I think its clear most of the thing will come on CD. But if how will it work? Will you play the game offline and then quit the game to connect when it comes 2 internet part? Or will the game connect you?

[Zanthia]

Zanthia, you really only need to be able to go to websites, and you're obviously capable of doing that since you regularly post on this website. When you're not using the internet for the game, don't connect. If that's not satisfactory, don't buy the game.
I am not talking about myself. I have wide broadband now. But some of my friends, for example, only connect for two hours a week. Because of price. Not 2 buy a game? What a great suggestion! How didn't I thought about it?!

[twifkak]

I commute into the city to work (but plan to move back into the city in a few months). On the train I've seen several people using their laptops/notebooks to play games to pass the long ride (anything from solitaire to a pirate strategy game to even first person shooters like Jedi Knight 2), something I would do myself if I had a laptop/notebook (I'd play adventure games).
Are you sure you wouldn't want to play them on your Nokia N-Gage? Oh, that's right, you only read books on trains, because that's how you want it to be. You didn't bring an umbrella because you like getting wet.

In other news, I can at least corroborate having read what Jim seems to know first-hand about online sales. That's not saying much, though...

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Are you sure you wouldn't want to play them on your Nokia N-Gage? Oh, that's right, you only read books on trains, because that's how you want it to be. You didn't bring an umbrella because you like getting wet.

The primary reason I currently have zero interest in playing games on cell phone or even a GBA is that the damn screens are the size of George W. Bush's brain. I can't possibly keep squinting just to hit some tiny target. I've tried playing with my niece's GBA and it's crappy, the way you have keep your eyes 3 inches from the tiny screen. The sound quality is laughable. Another reason is that the games available are nothing I'm interested in, the majority of game available for handhelds and cell phones are arcade games, they are fecking boring to me. I hate sidescrollers (sick of them, I grew up playing them), racing games bore me, etc. I'd love to play Broken Sword on a GBA, but I can't justify buying it just for one measly game. I prefer to wait until the technology catches up to the high res quality of a small computer monitor, and even then I may still not be interested.

As it stands I would rather play a game on a laptop riding the train for an hour, or at a coffeehouse as a break from working on my writing, or if I find myself on a long flight to Paris or somewhere and I want something else to do other than reading a book or writing in my journal. You see a pattern now, don't you? My purchase of a laptop would be for my writing and my personal work, not for gaming, which would be an added bonus.

[twifkak]

As it stands I would rather play a game on a laptop riding the train for an hour, or at a coffeehouse as a break from working on my writing, or if I find myself on a long flight to Paris or somewhere and I want something else to do other than reading a book or writing in my journal. You see a pattern now, don't you? My purchase of a laptop would be for my writing and my personal work, not for gaming, which would be an added bonus.
Fair enough.

And, FWIW, I agree with the points you make about GBA and the like (though I am kinda interested in Wario Ware (http://www.gamecritics.com/review/warioware/main.php)), which is why I bought a music player, and not a game player. :P I've given up *writing* music for the time being, as I've been going through a pretty serious I'm-not-worthy spat for a few years now.

[remixor]

The primary reason I currently have zero interest in playing games on cell phone or even a GBA is that the damn screens are the size of George W. Bush's brain

Oh, come on. The screens aren't THAT small.

[Pappapisshu]

(though I am kinda interested in Wario Ware (http://www.gamecritics.com/review/warioware/main.php))

That game rules! Awesome-awesome. Awesome.

[Leonard Shelby]

Hello everybody, as you know I'm French and "In Memoriam" s developper is also from France .

Today i was surfing on a web french site about video games and i was surprised to find an exclusive interview from the Chief Developper of the game !

It s a long and really passionnating interview and the interviewer asks all the questions you could have dreamed about .

So i m gonna try to translate it all and giving you each in each post on this very thread one one of the questions he did ask and the proper answer by Lexis Numerique .

Tell me if you re ok for that and i m starting at my next post :)

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Ooh, Leonard, that sounds sexy!! Thanks! Looking forward to your translation. :)

[Leonard Shelby]

Here is about the fact the game is using Internet and they re talking about Majestic and episodic releases and the final choice of Lexis for "In Memoriam" about that :

Interviewer : "For the internet part, the game isn't on line but asks for an internet s connexion, do you think it s gonna add a new dimension to the way adventure games are being played nowadays ?"

Eric Vienot (In Memoriam s creator) : "Internet brings a new dimension : the game 's immersion into reality .
For instance, you can play on sunday and then coming back from work monday night and finding at home a mail from an unknown person who would put you on new tracks .

Most of people who did play the game has been surprised by this new way of playing and stunned by finding clues into real web sites .
Also they re finding difficult to distinguish what s real from what s fake .
This adds to the story and the characters a great credibility .

The inclusion of Internet made us being really serious about the documentaries .

It was important than the players didn t find informations who were totally opposited to each other" .


Well it s a really long and patient work for translating this interview, thanks for being patient and trust me it will be really rewarding to read :)

[Intrepid Homoludens]

8-) Thanks, Leonard! That was informative. This game should raise a few heads.

[Leonard Shelby]

I : "Could you tell me how different is "In Memoriam" in comparison with a game like "The Majestic" who did also use the web and did fail, mainly due to technical probs" ?

E.V : "Majestic did have a huge on line s dimension but the common points stop here .
People i know and who did play to (Majestic) has stopped it mainly for one good reason : they didn t understand the meaning of it and the fact they had to pay for playing it more was a huge problem .
With "In Memoriam" you just have to buy the game s cd for playing and finishing it .

"In Memoriam" uses a mixed concept who hasn t been used that much : you re playing on CD-ROM (with all the possibilities this medium offers : movies, music, deep interactivity) . And you go on the net for making some research and receiving e-mails .
The game asks for almost no download at all . No paying stuff to download, no need for a fast connection (only a 56 K modem is requiered)

The missions are clear : if you're losing on the web, some mails will bring you back on the right track !"

[remixor]

Thanks, Leonard :) Definitely an interesting read.

[Leonard Shelby]

You re welcome :)

Here is something who should interest Intrepid because it s totally answering his first post about the game and why nobody was talking about it at all :

I : "I m really surprised none of the video games magazines did talk about "In Memoriam", no previews, no tests... Is this a choice from yourself or is there another reason to that ?"

E.V : "In Memoriam is not a common game . For instance, it s not builted around a 3 D engine .
Giving it too early to video games magazines for doing previews wouldn t have made some sense at all because such a special game can t be previewed at all .

So, we did choose, alongside Ubi Soft, to communicate only with the mainstream press .
"Liberation" (a french newspaper which is published each day) talked about the game in his "movies" pages (!) one year ago .
"LCI" (french cable station tv) revolved one of his "web magazine" around "In Memoriam" .

The communication with the video game s press has only started a few weeks ago and their reactions are really good .
It s a huge surprise for gamers' journalists who are fond of Adventure Games (and also those who aren't !) .

There s a lot of people who are addicted to the game and you re gonna hear about it really soon in a lot of magazines" .

[Burns11]

Sure, builted. Now I really want to play it. :rolleyes:

[Royal Fool]

Here is something who should interest Intrepid because it s totally answering his first post about the game and why nobody was talking about it at all :

I : "I m really surprised none of the video games magazines did talk about "In Memoriam", no previews, no tests... Is this a choice from yourself or is there another reason to that ?"

E.V : "In Memoriam is not a common game . For instance, it s not builted around a 3 D engine .
Giving it too early to video games magazines for doing previews wouldn t have made some sense at all because such a special game can t be previewed at all .

If I think about it, it's true. A game of this kind cannot be previewed very easily... maybe getting mentioned in a magazine or a press release can work, but screenshots and other things may not do it justice or really work at all. (Similar to the game 'Uplink', which was all played from a simple mainframe interface, but had so much more to offer)

And thanks for translating!

[iceboomerang]

http://my.netian.com/~coldfeet/bos.jpg

leaves one puzzle,this is..
where gain clues? Can anyone answer my question?

[hooter]

leaves one puzzle,this is..
where gain clues? Can anyone answer my question?

It's a picture of a group of physicists at the Shelter Island Conference of 1947 - a famous gathering that included the likes of Richard Feynman (Nobel Prize laureate in Physics) and Julian Schwinger (another Nobel laureate) - it was quite a "think tank" to say the least.

[futumtch]

leaves one puzzle,this is..
where gain clues? Can anyone answer my question?

SPOILER!

http://www.volker-institut.com/en/Gesch.html

[MGN]

hey guys i am stuck here anyone can give me a clue ?
thnx alot

[asgard]

I'm stuck too in the game.

I got 3 names which would lead me to a 6 digit code on the web.

maria luiza alves
satô mai
victoria baring

When i type these names together in google, i don't find a site with the code.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

:P OMG, this thread's gone crazy! I started it as an introduction to the game, but now it's changed into a hints center. LOL I'm glad you guys are really getting into it.

[twifkak]

So it's out in stores now?

[Intrepid Homoludens]

According to Gamespot (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/puzzle/inmemoriam/news_6076716.html) there is no NA release date as of yet. The game has been out in Europe since spring this year.

[stianjo]

Spoiler / Hint warning.





For MGM:

Where? Pinpoint the location....


For Asgard:

One search often lead to another...

[asgard]

With the 3 names i got from the floating circles i came accross a site, but no code. So i used the next hint (istanbul). And i searched the internet for the only library from istanbul (librairi Kilic) that was on the site, but then i got stuck :( .

the site was : http://www.irbca.com/

Maybe I'm just stupid :frusty:

http://members.lycos.nl/midgarde/jpeg/in%20memoria1.JPG

[stianjo]

the site was :



This site opens another door which hides the key. Look closer. ;)

[DomStLeger]

According to Gamespot (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/puzzle/inmemoriam/news_6076716.html) there is no NA release date as of yet. The game has been out in Europe since spring this year.

It has!?

[remixor]

Spoilers! (for the text, anyway)

[MGN]

[QUOTE=stianjo]

For MGM:

Where? Pinpoint the location....

[QUOTE]

hmm i got to this site http://www.oxstud.com/

there is the map...

but i cant figure out what to pinpoint :)


to asgard:

maria luiza alves + satô mai + victoria baring + Instanbul = Lund :)

[stianjo]

Spoilers! (for the text, anyway)

Oops, sorry remixor...wasnt aware of that feature...wont happen again.

[stianjo]

MGM:

"but i cant figure out what to pinpoint :)" - you have the place, find the location.

More help than this would be a direct giveaway :P

[asgard]

for everybody who helped thx :)

for mgm check next site : www.memo-geo.com

[futumtch]

maria luiza alves + satô mai + victoria baring + Instanbul = Lund :)
Can someone put me out of my misery regarding the above? I've tried every possible combination. It's driving me nuts! :sad:

Thanks.

[asgard]

if you use the three names in google you get to a site with antique books (see the link i posted in one of the previous replies) then use the hint you get 'istanbul'---> there's only one of the listed shops that's located in istanbul 'kasim sari' so search it on the internet and then read.
there you would get the answer on the question.

[futumtch]

if you use the three names in google you get to a site with antique books (see the link i posted in one of the previous replies) then use the hint you get 'istanbul'---> there's only one of the listed shops that's located in istanbul 'kasim sari' so search it on the internet and then read.
there you would get the answer on the question.
Arrrgh! That simple.
I'm sure I did that and just came up with the antique book site each time.

Thanks.

[stianjo]

Hmm, now i really know the meaning of the word 'stuck'.

Anyone gotten through Rhomenos yet? I have searched an searched on the obvious, but it gets me nowhere...A gentle push would be most appreciated :=)

[santawar]

I´m really stuck on Sosommo, the one with: Inkdesign ((not found)-327) anyone who was managed that one???

[jfrazer]

New here but I had to post since threads on In Memoriam are pretty scarce. I am stuck on Rhomenos and Brous. I have tried the obvious, I think, whithout much luck. I only get one page for the name that is revealed in Rhomenos and I can't find anything helpfull. Has anyone tried sending email to any of the addresses on the sites such as f.maggioloi? Just curious. Thanks for the help and... great thread.

[Rataplan]

For Rhomenous I googled - cortado inquisition
It helped me. :9

[jfrazer]

That did help... thanks. Now if I could just figure out Brous. This "game" is more fun than I thought it would be.

[Rataplan]

I received an e-mail from Fe256 titled Re:Brous.
Googling the streetname in combination with murder could help you out.

Yes it is a very adicting and fun game :)

[jfrazer]

Hmm. Didn't get that email yet. Guess I'll have to wait to see if I get it.

[Royal Fool]

I'm trying as hard as I can not to read the posts here, but:

One question, doesn't the game have a CD-key or some sort of registration? Because you seem to have to log in over at that SKL Systems site to access the notepad...?

[jfrazer]

When you first start the game you setup a username and email address to use in game. You are then sent an email containing a password. Your username and password are used to access the notepad.

[alexkag]

i'm stuck on Sosommo too, got an e-mail from fe256 saying that "not found" refers to error 404 but that dosen't help me at all
and i can't find nothing relevant on inkdesign
really stuck! help :sad:

[jfrazer]

What is "inkdesign"? Is that one of the puzzles?

I went to the website on the business card as well as the yacht club site but haven't found anything yet.

[alexkag]

What is "inkdesign"? Is that one of the puzzles?

I went to the website on the business card as well as the yacht club site but haven't found anything yet.

umm, i remember i googled "Maggioli murder" and i found a site with some guys diary telling a bout a murder
look for his first name there

now go and solve Sosommo for me :P

[Pinuts]

i'm stuck on Sosommo too, got an e-mail from fe256 saying that "not found" refers to error 404 but that dosen't help me at all
and i can't find nothing relevant on inkdesign
really stuck! help :sad:

404-327=77 good luck :P

[alexkag]

404-327=77 good luck :P

heh, i've already tried it. can't find anything... :crazy:

[Pinuts]

heh, i've already tried it. can't find anything... :crazy:


Humm ok -> www.inkdesign77.com cant tell you more :P

[Pinuts]

great now im stuck in Isy .. :(

I know its Hg missing but .. :|

[jfrazer]

Man. I had been on the site with the diary more than once and didn't put it together. I didn't think it was the right place. They did a good job with the webpages.

[alexkag]

great now im stuck in Isy .. :(

I know its Hg missing but .. :|

thanx !!! :)
and look for what Hg stands for ... (just google all the other letters)

[alexkag]

can anyone tell me what's writen in Chnoum? don't understand s**t in french :sad:

[fullmoon]

could you help me what to do with the word corpus i am stucked badly

[santawar]

Try to search for "est impuri" on google for the CHNOUM quest

[fullmoon]

any body who knows corpus pls help

[fullmoon]

greek island name

[Fienepien]

Hi! Delighted to have found a forum where people are discussing In Memoriam.
I'm very much stuck at Epitech. It looks like a diary (I've done the other Oxford puzzles and read H.W.'s diary), with a Sun symbol and a Venus symbol. Can anyone tell me what I'm supposed to do? I've been moving the Sun symbol around and been clicking away like crazy, but nothing happens. TIA.

[Ismo]

Hi! Delighted to have found a forum where people are discussing In Memoriam.
I'm very much stuck at Epitech. It looks like a diary (I've done the other Oxford puzzles and read H.W.'s diary), with a Sun symbol and a Venus symbol. Can anyone tell me what I'm supposed to do? I've been moving the Sun symbol around and been clicking away like crazy, but nothing happens. TIA.

When you move around the sun, the dots turn red in it. If all the dot turn red, you solve it.

I get stuck in Isy. Can any1 help me?

Ps.: Sorry for the weak english, but I'm hungarian.

[fullmoon]

can you help me withj soaphi name of the girl

[Fienepien]

can you help me withj soaphi name of the girl

You can find the name of the girl on Karen Gijman's web site.

By the way, did you notice the tiny little question mark in the right-hand top corner? Click it and you get the next hint (or it repeats the previous one).

[Luca Brasi]

When you move around the sun, the dots turn red in it. If all the dot turn red, you solve it.

I get stuck in Isy. Can any1 help me?

Ps.: Sorry for the weak english, but I'm hungarian.

http://www.vanderkrogt.net/elements/fecu_sources_index.html

which one of the two letters don't show...? and what do the letters stand for...? all in that page.

[twifkak]

You can find the name of the girl on Karen Gijman's web site.

By the way, did you notice the tiny little question mark in the right-hand top corner? Click it and you get the next hint (or it repeats the previous one).
Ah! Another Cath! We must battle!

(Sorry, I'll go away now.)

[Fienepien]

Ah! Another Cath! We must battle!

(Sorry, I'll go away now.)

I would change into Anna to avoid a battle, if only I knew how. ;)

[twifkak]

I would change into Anna to avoid a battle, if only I knew how. ;)
Well, I'd try to make a simple little one from http://www.lastexpress.com/, but it seems to be down now..

[Bitmap]

heya,

i am stuck at the part where one has to figure out the three names in istanbul. i googled and got this page:
http://www.irbca.com/
but it isn't loading for me :( can someone help me out?

[futumtch]

heya,

i am stuck at the part where one has to figure out the three names in istanbul. i googled and got this page:
http://www.irbca.com/
but it isn't loading for me :( can someone help me out?
Back up to earlier on in this thread. It helped me.

[Bitmap]

if you use the three names in google you get to a site with antique books (see the link i posted in one of the previous replies) then use the hint you get 'istanbul'---> there's only one of the listed shops that's located in istanbul 'kasim sari' so search it on the internet and then read.
there you would get the answer on the question.do you mean this post? thanks a lot, but, well ... i think i would have found out what to do ... the problem is that the page (http://www.irbca.com/) isn't loading ... i tried it 5 times now but it just loads and loads and loads without ever presentating me anything where i can even put the word "istanbul". all i see is a white browserwindow and the ugly ie-world button which is spinning :)
is there another way beside the not working homepage to find out what to do? if not could someone send me a pm with the right code? i would appreciate it

[spank]

can anyone please give me a hint about the sky-puzzle (chrom?) i been staring at tha alchemy website for 4 hours.

[futumtch]

do you mean this post? thanks a lot, but, well ... i think i would have found out what to do ... the problem is that the page (http://www.irbca.com/) isn't loading ... i tried it 5 times now but it just loads and loads and loads without ever presentating me anything where i can even put the word "istanbul". all i see is a white browserwindow and the ugly ie-world button which is spinning :)
is there another way beside the not working homepage to find out what to do? if not could someone send me a pm with the right code? i would appreciate it
At irbca.com, the Istanbul book shop is...

Kasim Sari – Librairie Kilic – Istanbul
Art and ornamental calligraphy, antique books, collections
Halicilar Sok 16, Beyazit, 34490 Istanbul – Turkey
Search on "Kasim Sari" and the answer is on there.

I don't think there's any possible way you could find that out without getting to irbca.com first. That url works fine here.

[futumtch]

can anyone please give me a hint about the sky-puzzle (chrom?) i been staring at tha alchemy website for 4 hours.
If you stick to your principles, it's there in black and white!

[fullmoon]

look for kasim sari in google.com.tr

[dragonheart2422]

Hello

can anybody please help
me with the one of the first three puzzles where the door of the phoenix is?
what is the passwort in the sun puzzle (something like: Solinvictus??) i search it for 4 hours but i dont found it. Please help me.

Sorry for my bad english.

Mfg Nico

[Bitmap]

I don't think there's any possible way you could find that out without getting to irbca.com first. That url works fine here.thanks a lot. not sure why the link won't work over here. perhaps it's just my provider. but it still just keeps loading

[shockproof]

i've been playing in memoriam since yesterday, and i think i made a lot of progress in the game, but now i'm stuck with subos, it's part of the fire-section.....i don't know what to do with that skeleton, can somebody help me?

[shockproof]

i found it....maybe i was a little to quick at posting the question....

[Chris_TC]

Hi there,

somebody please help me with Pepisoth in the AIR-Part of the game. I'm really stuck at the point where I'm supposed to highlight six letters. I tried so many words, but none seemed to work. What on earth am I supposed to enter??

Also, I don't know how to continue in Phu - with the weird dragonfly. I know how to receive the letters, but I don't know the word to construct. However, Phoenix said, I'd find out when I solve Pepisoth. So please, help me on that darn Pepisoth riddle. It's driving me nuts. :frusty:

Thanks a lot!

[shockproof]

you'll have to get the corrisponding letters in the corner, you can do this by holding down other letters so you can push the wanted letter in the corner, maybe there is another (less complicated) way, but after a couple of times, it worked.

/*SPOILER*/
in phu you'll have to enter "giordano bruno", i can't remember how i got to this name...

[spank]

Futumtch:
just wan´t to thank you for the hint. right before mig eyes all the time :)

[Luca Brasi]

In Pepisoth, I found the image of the sun (http://www.demagia.net/corne.html), and I drew it, but nothing happened... am I doing something wrong?

heeeeeellllpppp.... :crazy:

[Elrubik]

http://www.vanderkrogt.net/elements/fecu_sources_index.html

which one of the two letters don't show...? and what do the letters stand for...? all in that page.

I know Mercury is missing but it doesnt give all the letters to spell it

[Luca Brasi]

I know Mercury is missing but it doesnt give all the letters to spell it

http://www.vanderkrogt.net/elements/elem/hg.html

[Chris_TC]

@Shockproof: Thanks for your help! I finally managed to finish the game.

@Luca Brasi: The drawings need to be very accurate. Whenever you position one of the rings at the right coordinates, music will start to play.
If you reposition, the music will stop - and you know, you're on the wrong track.

[shockproof]

can somebody help met with choutaret in the second fire-part of the game? you have to give the name of the person who discovered the sacred book. I know his first name is Muhammed, because Fe256 wrote it in an email, but i can't find his surname... he has two surnames, one starts with an a and you must give the other 2 letters...;the other one starts with an s and ends with an n, and you have to give 4 letters

[Luca Brasi]

@Shockproof: Thanks for your help! I finally managed to finish the game.

@Luca Brasi: The drawings need to be very accurate. Whenever you position one of the rings at the right coordinates, music will start to play.
If you reposition, the music will stop - and you know, you're on the wrong track.

10x! now I'm stuck with the six letters... n ol ai n... i'll figure it out :)

btw - is it anywhere near the end of the game?

[Tanukitsune]

Sw33t! I finaly got a copy of the game! I just found it at a store today...
Was it really released in spring? I went to that store last Saturday and it wasn't there...
According to magazine Omega Stone has been out for over a month, I haven't found a copy yet.... Sometimes theyare realeased earlier or later, and sometimes never at all!
Ooh, this game looks so cool! I can't wait to play it!
:9~

[Elrubik]

If you stick to your principles, it's there in black and white!
Hmmm call me naive but I don't have a clue what I am looking for even if I do stick to my principles

[futumtch]

Hmmm call me naive but I don't have a clue what I am looking for even if I do stick to my principles
That crytic clue was for spank who was already at the right website.
He just wanted a nudge. :)

http://www.hermeticum.info/

[dragonheart2422]

Hello

Can anybody help me in Brous?
i can´t find the Name of the son.

Mfg Dragonheart

[shockproof]

has anyone done the final game? untill an hour ago i received some emails, but now it don't receive anything anymore, there are no more puzzles to solve or websites to visit, i'm stuck and i don't even know why......can somebody help me?

[mirakov]

Has anyone found out the address in the Teuchmos puzzle?

In a video clip Jack and Karen walk along a certain street and the house number is also visible in the video, but that combination doesn't work.

I think I haven't found a detailed enough map of Prague. This is quite a good one, but it doesn't show all the smallest streets in that area:
http://hotels.class-hotels.com/map/

[Wilson]

Someone, please HELP! I'm totally stuck! I've tried to solve the SOTHIR case, but i can't find the solution. The quest is: find the right sequence of the "tables". There are a lot of picture on this site, but i don't know, how to do it right. (sorry for my english, i'm a n00b hungarian boy :) )

http://free.srv.hu/r/o/rof/temple_bs.jpg

[Elrubik]

I cannot figure out how to get the number combinations any help would be greatly appreciated

[Ismo]

Someone, please HELP! I'm totally stuck! I've tried to solve the SOTHIR case, but i can't find the solution. The quest is: find the right sequence of the "tables". There are a lot of picture on this site, but i don't know, how to do it right. (sorry for my english, i'm a n00b hungarian boy :) )

http://free.srv.hu/r/o/rof/temple_bs.jpg
Tényleg magyar vagy?

So, look the names. The clues that you got. Search it on Google. You find a church name. Search the name again, but search in the pictures. You'll find lot of pictures, with the signs. All you have to do, to put them in the right place.

[RaTcHaLL]

Hello folks, anyone found the name of the Arab of the photo ? I did extensive searches (more than 10 hours) on the net to find anything about the Picatrix book, Muhammed ... and other related things about Necronomicon but no good answer.

I've spent also many our try to combine the middle name letter to find something bound to this context but nothing.

Any answer ?

Regards

[ashleyelaine]

I'm sorry about only asking a question and not offering up any help, but if you all could help me that would be loverly.

I'm at the end of Epitech, the sun situation has been dealt with and I've constructed the two pictures and I even have the information that I need to solve the puzzle.

But, then why when I enter all of it in, nothing happens?
I've tried many different ways to enter it in and nothing...

Which also makes me wonder if I need to do certain things with the other contents in the box, other than the photos...

i'm being vague, so not to spoil things for others, but if you've completed it you should know what I'm speaking about..

Please help! From the bottom of my broken heart, I beg you.

[BuG2FiX]

I'm sorry about only asking a question and not offering up any help, but if you all could help me that would be loverly.

I'm at the end of Epitech, the sun situation has been dealt with and I've constructed the two pictures and I even have the information that I need to solve the puzzle.

But, then why when I enter all of it in, nothing happens?
I've tried many different ways to enter it in and nothing...

Which also makes me wonder if I need to do certain things with the other contents in the box, other than the photos...

i'm being vague, so not to spoil things for others, but if you've completed it you should know what I'm speaking about..

Please help! From the bottom of my broken heart, I beg you.

...have u tried pressing 'enter' ? worked for me. the date is in format: mm/dd/yyyy (here in holland we start with the 'day')

[ashleyelaine]

...have u tried pressing 'enter' ? worked for me. the date is in format: mm/dd/yyyy (here in holland we start with the 'day')

I don't think I could possibly be more embarrassed right now.
I was going over everything in detail except the most obvious thing in the world.

Sigh.

Well, thanks a bunch. I'm a real tool.

(I guess I often forget that I need to press enter instead of randomly clicking about)

[BuG2FiX]

I don't think I could possibly be more embarrassed right now.
I was going over everything in detail except the most obvious thing in the world.

Sigh.

Well, thanks a bunch. I'm a real tool.

(I guess I often forget that I need to press enter instead of randomly clicking about)


don't worry, i had the same problem with this one. My guess is that a lot of people will or had cause it's not obvious, in the other puzzles it doesn't require a 'enter'. it's not consequent.

[dontomaso]

Sunbeam puzzle : Epitech

Can someone provide me with a hint for this puzzle? I'm really stuck here. And the in-game hints given doesen't help much :(

[futumtch]

Has anyone found out the address in the Teuchmos puzzle?

In a video clip Jack and Karen walk along a certain street and the house number is also visible in the video, but that combination doesn't work.

I think I haven't found a detailed enough map of Prague. This is quite a good one, but it doesn't show all the smallest streets in that area:
http://hotels.class-hotels.com/map/http://www.tychobrahe.net/ is the site you need.

[futumtch]

Hello folks, anyone found the name of the Arab of the photo ? I did extensive searches (more than 10 hours) on the net to find anything about the Picatrix book, Muhammed ... and other related things about Necronomicon but no good answer.

I've spent also many our try to combine the middle name letter to find something bound to this context but nothing.

Any answer ?

RegardsThis was really straightforward for me.
In one of the other puzzle (Chthisar I think) you should see 5 symbols written in blood. You can decode these using the symbols in Giordano Bruno section at http://www.demagia.net/
Later you should see another clip of Jacks video whereby you get to see another set of 5 symbols. Again, decode them at http://www.demagia.net/. You may need to watch the vid a couple more times. You now have 2 words to Google which will take you to the right website and the rest of Mohammed's name.

[futumtch]

Hello

Can anybody help me in Brous?
i can´t find the Name of the son.You should get an email about an italian article on the net. A bus driver called Massimo Palacci found the body so if you Google "Massimo Palacci" you'll find it.

[futumtch]

has anyone done the final game? untill an hour ago i received some emails, but now it don't receive anything anymore, there are no more puzzles to solve or websites to visit, i'm stuck and i don't even know why......can somebody help me?I feel your pain! Beat the Phoenix at the end and now just left with a black screen in the browser and an email saying Marco is at the scene. :confused:

[mirakov]

http://www.tychobrahe.net/ is the site you need.

Damn, I found that street on a map earlier and even tried, but with the wrong number. (There are two numbers above the door...)

The end of the journey awaits...

[Elrubik]

Could some please give me a hint on the Subos puzzle with the Skeleton as I am totally lost as to what to do

[Wilson]

Tényleg magyar vagy?

So, look the names. The clues that you got. Search it on Google. You find a church name. Search the name again, but search in the pictures. You'll find lot of pictures, with the signs. All you have to do, to put them in the right place.


Egen, tényleg magyar vagyok ::)

I've found THIS (http://www.persofrance.com/mathet/jour2.html) site with those pictures yesterday, but I don't know the right sequence. I've tried a lot combination, but the right one is a mystery for me. Please help!

[Sylvie]

can any1 help me with the third test


its about the notre dame and that corpus hint thingy :P

thx in advance

[BuG2FiX]

Sunbeam puzzle : Epitech

Can someone provide me with a hint for this puzzle? I'm really stuck here. And the in-game hints given doesen't help much :(

the sunbeams are 'on' when the red lights are on. move the sun-shaped thing around the screen (click and hold the mouse button) and notice how the lights change when you closer to your target. there are also sounds when the lights light up. try to get all the lights 'on'.

when you find the correct place, let go of the mouse button. then the puzzle will appear...

[Wilson]

Egen, tényleg magyar vagyok ::)

I've found THIS (http://www.persofrance.com/mathet/jour2.html) site with those pictures yesterday, but I don't know the right sequence. I've tried a lot combination, but the right one is a mystery for me. Please help!


FINALLY! I've finished it! (I mean the puzzle) It was a 4 hour work, but it worth it ::)

[BuG2FiX]

Egen, tényleg magyar vagyok ::)

I've found THIS (http://www.persofrance.com/mathet/jour2.html) site with those pictures yesterday, but I don't know the right sequence. I've tried a lot combination, but the right one is a mystery for me. Please help!

it is the correct website. look and click on the pictures on the left side.

if u look closely, you should be able to find out from which point the pictures are taken. the curch is not symmetrical! only one side has 3 round alcoves.... try to match the pictures, u could also print them out and arrange them...

[mirakov]

Egen, tényleg magyar vagyok ::)

I've found THIS (http://www.persofrance.com/mathet/jour2.html) site with those pictures yesterday, but I don't know the right sequence. I've tried a lot combination, but the right one is a mystery for me. Please help!

This one might also help:
http://www2.cytanet.com.cy/gogreek/interior_a_sofia.gif

[Wilson]

Thanks for the help, but after 4 hours of hard work, i've finally made it :) Now, i'm stuck with EPITECH. I've found the girl's name, her birthday (9 July 1981), but after I've input it, nothing happens! Why? And I don't know what to do with the flowers!

[mirakov]

Thanks for the help, but after 4 hours of hard work, i've finally made it :) Now, i'm stuck with EPITECH. I've found the girl's name, her birthday (9 July 1981), but after I've input it, nothing happens! Why? And I don't know what to do with the flowers!

Make sure you type the date in the right format!
Like this: 09071981

[Elrubik]

Grrrr I am ripping my hair out now nearly 10 hrs I have been playing around with this skeleton and I bet it is something so obvious but I can't bloody find it HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mirakov]

Grrrr I am ripping my hair out now nearly 10 hrs I have been playing around with this skeleton and I bet it is something so obvious but I can't bloody find it HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

check out the match box

[dragonheart2422]

Hello

thanks for the help. i find the homepage of the bus driver but i dont no what i must do. what is the NOT FOUND thing??? I can´t find the Name please help again.

Thank You
Dragonheart

[Elrubik]

check out the match box

I have already done that but it still doesnt help at all

[mirakov]

I have already done that but it still doesnt help at all
You'll just have to find the right position of the limbs and the head. Be accurate and you'll solve it.

[Elrubik]

You'll just have to find the right position of the limbs and the head. Be accurate and you'll solve it.

Thanks for that I eventually figured it now I am stuck on choutaret lol

[Sylvie]

can any1 help me with the third test


its about the notre dame and that corpus hint thingy :P

thx in advance

can anyone plz pm me the password, id like to continue the game but ive been looking prolly way too hard, and it doesnt make any sence arf :( ive read all those sites tried 100s passwords i cant get passed it omg, im prolly a noob :D

thx for the help :x

[futumtch]

Hello

thanks for the help. i find the homepage of the bus driver but i dont no what i must do. what is the NOT FOUND thing??? I can´t find the Name please help again.There's another entry on that page called 'Dear Prudence'. Read that.

[futumtch]

Make sure you type the date in the right format!
Like this: 09071981[.
....and don't forget to press the 'enter' key!! A few of us were caught out by this!

[futumtch]

can anyone plz pm me the password, id like to continue the game but ive been looking prolly way too hard, and it doesnt make any sence arf :( ive read all those sites tried 100s passwords i cant get passed it omg, im prolly a noob :D

thx for the help :x
Can you be a bit more descriptive? Some of these puzzles are just a blur to me now. lol

[ashleyelaine]

Now I'm stuck on Amphatab...

I hate it when you think you have the information, it's just the execution that kills you...

If anyone could offer up some hints (some strong hints), I would adore you for life.

Update: Now I sort of figured out how to do the puzzle, I just think it's the information that I've got all wrong. lol.

[futumtch]

Now I'm stuck on Amphatab...

I hate it when you think you have the information, it's just the execution that kills you...

If anyone could offer up some hints (some strong hints), I would adore you for life.

Update: Now I sort of figured out how to do the puzzle, I just think it's the information that I've got all wrong. lol.
I assume you have figured out the year from a site like this: http://www.italia-libero.com/ghidoni/in/index.html

The following combos would get the bugs to move the dials (either 8 or 9 notches it seems):-

Blue/yellow or yellow/blue for the first dial.
Blue/green or green/blue for another dial.
Green/yellow or yellow/green for the last dial.

I never used the red capsule. (instant death to bugs)
Don't bother feeding the bugs if there are dead bugs on screen.
Never feed the same coloured capsule twice in succession.

This puzzle had me stumped for a while because I did all the above once and the game didn't advance. I then tried it all again the following day because it had to be right and it worked 2nd time around. Maybe a bug! (pun intended)

[mirakov]

where do I find the last part of the code in the choutaret puzzle?

[ellepietje]

Can someone give me a hint for "aron"?
Its obvious that you have to scratch the suface with the knife and that you have to enter something in the box. Once done that, there are showing 3 times the same letter combination but i haven't got a clue what to do with it??

helppppp!!!!!

[mirakov]

Can someone give me a hint for "aron"?
Its obvious that you have to scratch the suface with the knife and that you have to enter something in the box. Once done that, there are showing 3 times the same letter combination but i haven't got a clue what to do with it??

helppppp!!!!!

How about using Google?

[Elrubik]

How long till u get an email from SKL?

[mirakov]

How long till u get an email from SKL?

So you completed choutaret? Can you give me a little hint? I guess these are a part of the solution:

nagha and mmadg

edit: got it.

[futumtch]

So you completed choutaret? Can you give me a little hint? I guess these are a part of the solution:

nagha and mmadg

But where should I look for the last five letters?
Slight error in your decoding. It should be nagha and mmadi

Put those 2 words into Google.

[aligov]

please please help me
i've stuc k to my principles and i know its there in black and white..but i can't find it...please somebody help me...

[mirakov]

Slight error in your decoding. It should be nagha and mmadi

lol. No wonder I didn't find anything...

[futumtch]

please please help me
i've stuc k to my principles and i know its there in black and white..but i can't find it...please somebody help me...This nudge only applies if you already happen to be at the right website which is... http://www.hermeticum.info/

[Luca Brasi]

DAMN!@)!@#)_(!!!!!

I was stuck in the second part of that space shooting game, pressed ESC, and exited, and next time I entered I got an error and the game can't simply load... I guess you can't return to this point in the game if you exit from it... I tried to repair the game from installation and it didn't work either! I uninstalled, and now I THINK I HAVE TO START FROM SCRATCH!!!!!

Any ideas, or am I fu**ed up?

[ashleyelaine]

I assume you have figured out the year from a site like this: http://www.italia-libero.com/ghidoni/in/index.html

The following combos would get the bugs to move the dials (either 8 or 9 notches it seems):-

Blue/yellow or yellow/blue for the first dial.
Blue/green or green/blue for another dial.
Green/yellow or yellow/green for the last dial.

I never used the red capsule. (instant death to bugs)
Don't bother feeding the bugs if there are dead bugs on screen.
Never feed the same coloured capsule twice in succession.

This puzzle had me stumped for a while because I did all the above once and the game didn't advance. I then tried it all again the following day because it had to be right and it worked 2nd time around. Maybe a bug! (pun intended)

(if this reply shows up twice, sorry.)
Thank you so much for all of your help.
It was a real head scratcher for a while, there.
And it turns out that it was a bug! Ahaha, how appropro!

[BuG2FiX]

I liked the game, funny (ranging from easy to quite difficult) puzzles, although they are a little repetative after a while; it's either 'do action - look in google - fill in' ; or quite a few times little innovative copys of little action games (like the 'golf' course) which is a bit lame in my view.

Still, the game is addicitve enough to keep playing it. The story behind the game seems like it's from a thriller/horror movie, it has all the ingredients - bad omens, psychopaths, killings and mysterious environments etc. which is nothing new in this genre but doesn't get boring. Graphically it's average, the resolution is 800x600 (!) and the video quality is that of an average home-camera, but maybe that is done on purpose, to save disk space and because of the limitations in flash player and system specs.

Overall the game and storline is good, but the product is build pretty cheap, macromedia flash player is used a 'engine', which is interesting but also bad, it's not really stable and not 'made' for these kind of games. if you know a little about Flash and actionscript, you can figure out that this game is not hard to make - technically. On my system, the game locks up a lot of times after completing a puzzle, which is very irritating since the puzzle has to be done again.

Compared to other big games (like Myst III) this game is pretty static and grahically not really special, no (pseudo) 3D or walking and exploring. It remembered me of some years ago when i played 'The 7th Guest' for the first time - loads of puzzles!

The new part - integration with internet and email - is done pretty good although i got some emails giving hints about puzzles i had completed 2 days before. The websites you have to visit during the game are done pretty good (all created in dreamweaver - sponsored by macromedia?) they look and feel pretty authentic. The emails you receive give a lot of background information on the story. Too bad replying to the emails does not do anything.

in conlusion, people who like to figure out things and make puzzles within a nice environment will be satisfied with this game. The puzzles are overall variated enough to keep you busy for hours and can get you pretty frustrated (but they should ofcourse!). There are bugs in the game which can be overcome; the game sometimes does not respond to the right solution, you'll get the idea that you are wrong. The problem is solved by restarting the game.

People who are keen on graphically rich environments and exploring in large worlds where you can interact with charaters (like monkey island etc.) better look somewhere else. The game is pretty linear and follows a set path. u cannot die (at least i didn't).

[dragonheart2422]

Hello

i Found it thank you Futumtch.
but now i don´t now what i must do in chroum (the Sky Puzzle) I found the website her******.com and i found the words on the site but i dont no what i must write into the line.

it must there in black and white but i don´t find it.

Sorry for my bad english.


Mfg Nico

[Tanukitsune]

I am starting to hate the game... In my first game, it froze in the first screen... I couldn't play anymore and had to use an old Hotmail account....
I made to Terra and nearly beat it, but again the game went zany and I can't play anymore.... I am not going to play until the makers answer my mail....
I hope the US version is fixed....
BTW, I got some advertisement for the game in the mail from Ubisoft...
I also found a walkthrough... its good beacuse it gives hints before the answer....
To think I have to play that silly mini-golf game again.... and the drag the target one... :(
IMHO, it looks more like a 7th Guest/Google hybird than an adventure... Unless the 7th Guest is considered an adventure too... :P

[shockproof]

does anyone knows if the game ends after they found karen and jack, or does the game continue since you still have to look for phoenix? the first possibility would really suck...

@Tanukitsune : where can i find the walkthrough?

[Tanukitsune]

does anyone knows if the game ends after they found karen and jack, or does the game continue since you still have to look for phoenix? the first possibility would really suck...

@Tanukitsune : where can i find the walkthrough?
Its -->here! (http://shaamaan.neostrada.pl/In_Memoriam_Guide.txt) <--
You have to scroll sideways to get a hint for that stage, if you scroll more you get a better tip, and so on till he gives you the answer...
BTW, it seems Ubi Soft Spain uses a forum for tech support... :shifty:

[shockproof]

well.. it seems like the game really stops after finding jack and karen, this really pisses me off... the whole game was really entertaining, but the end really SUCKS......it wasn't even clear if the game ended or not. since I still received an e-mail a day after i played the final game...

[spank]

i need help big time on the vari quest. i can´t figure out what he is saying. umbra profonda summus? google didn´t help either

[mirakov]

i need help big time on the vari quest. i can´t figure out what he is saying. umbra profonda summus? google didn´t help either

check your spelling:
Umbra Profunda Sumus

[LilAnGl]

This mini golf course is making me crazy!
I'm stuck in lvl4 for hoursand can't do it with only 10 tries. :frusty:
There should be some hints or something, I really hate those games. I've never been good in them. :(

[Fienepien]

I've hit a frustrating bug. Last time I played I was at Phu, where the dragonfly was taxing my patience by producing a long series of zzzzzz's and no other letters. I stopped playing and now I get the following error message in French/English:

"Erreur de lecteur Director
cast member name expected
<void>
erreur de script. Continuer?"

Clicking "yes" doesn't help at all. Restarting the computer doesn't help at all.
I don't feel like replaying the game from the beginning, which is my only option. Has anybody else run into this particular bug?

[LilAnGl]

I haven't had YOUR bug, but another one...
After finishing the first part of SPUCHU, the game just stopped and changed to windows.
When I now start the game and fill in my Username and password, it throws me directly back to the windows screen.
Repair didn't help. ;(
Does anyone have a clue what to do?
I don't feel like replaying everything, so any idea is welcome. :)

[Chris_TC]

I haven't had YOUR bug, but another one...
After finishing the first part of SPUCHU, the game just stopped and changed to windows.
When I now start the game and fill in my Username and password, it throws me directly back to the windows screen.
Repair didn't help. ;(
Does anyone have a clue what to do?
I don't feel like replaying everything, so any idea is welcome. :)

I encountered the same problem during the course of the game. However, I was thrown back to windows in another puzzle (not Spuchu). I contacted the customer support for help. They suggested to install the newest drivers for all my hardware (which I had already done before). If I wanted a more detailed answer, I would have had to send them my dxdiag.txt (type "dxdiag" at Start->Execute, in the dxdiag window press "save all information").
Since I was still quite at the beginning, I figured it wouldn't be too much of a problem if I started over. So I replayed from scratch and everything worked smoothly that time.

[LilAnGl]

I encountered the same problem during the course of the game. However, I was thrown back to windows in another puzzle (not Spuchu). I contacted the customer support for help. They suggested to install the newest drivers for all my hardware (which I had already done before). If I wanted a more detailed answer, I would have had to send them my dxdiag.txt (type "dxdiag" at Start->Execute, in the dxdiag window press "save all information").
Since I was still quite at the beginning, I figured it wouldn't be too much of a problem if I started over. So I replayed from scratch and everything worked smoothly that time.

That's my "problem" - I was not quite at the beginning...
I would replay the whole game, but I'm afraid of that mini-golf game. The last course took me really LONG! :D

Could anyone please send me a savegame file? Best would be, if it was near the SPUCHU lvl, so that I could find out, whether the game will work or not.
Well, please at least AFTER that mini-golf game! :D

[Tanukitsune]

OK, I beat the game! 8-) Is there a REAL ending? All i'm getting is email...
Oddly enough, Ubisoft has responded VERY quickly I got several emails from them and now I know that if the game goes crazy and you can't play anymore, you can go to "manage e-mails" and delete your account, but if you delete the folder you have to contact them.....
Anyway near the end it was more action than adventure....
In Memoriam is a cross between The Bone Collector, the 7Th Guest and Google....
The final challenges included Pac-man and Space Invaders clones... :D

[LilAnGl]

I restarted the game...
Now I'm stuck at ZOCHA.
I'm not good in those strategy thingies. :D
Does anyone have a hint for lvl3 there?

[dontomaso]

I restarted the game...
Now I'm stuck at ZOCHA.
I'm not good in those strategy thingies. :D
Does anyone have a hint for lvl3 there?

You already have one hint: 111

This will also help:
http://www.renaissanceastrology.com/chartweek3-18-02.html

[LilAnGl]

You already have one hint: 111

This will also help:
http://www.renaissanceastrology.com/chartweek3-18-02.html


I was talking about the little games after the 111 riddle. ;)
But no matter, I finished it. :P
I'M just stuck in IPI. It's where you have to destroy the planets. Can't put the mirrors in the right position. :crazy:

[Intrepid Homoludens]

So, all you new members here who had just signed up to talk about this game:

How is it? Are you all having fun? Is it really difficult? Is the story any good? Please tell us, please tell me, 'cause I'm thinking of getting it once it's available in the States.

And welcome to the wacky world of Adventure Gamers! :P

[dontomaso]

I was talking about the little games after the 111 riddle. ;)
But no matter, I finished it. :P
I'M just stuck in IPI. It's where you have to destroy the planets. Can't put the mirrors in the right position. :crazy:

If you click on the sun/laser in the middle it will stop for a few seconds (if you haven't noticed already). This will help a little.

[BuG2FiX]

How is it? Are you all having fun? Is it really difficult? Is the story any good? Please tell us, please tell me, 'cause I'm thinking of getting it once it's available in the States.

And welcome to the wacky world of Adventure Gamers! :P

As i said in my 'review' above, personally i think the game is too static and the story is just average, nothing really disturbing. A lot of the games are not original and are just graphically changed a bit to fit the environment. Some puzzles are challenging, where others are plain luck to pass.

one big issue still remains, why did they use Flash / director projector for this game? it is pretty buggy and instable a lot of times.

graphic: 7
video: 5
story: 7.5
music/sound: 6 (not much music, if there is any, it is repeating)
stability: 5
puzzle difficulty: 6 to 8

[shockproof]

overall score: 4.5.... i like the entire game, but the sloppy ending ruines everything......very disappointing...

and yes, why on earth would they use all those macromedia-junk to make a game... THAT is the big puzzle of this game, maybe the clue of this game is resolving this puzzle :)....at least i would have been a better ending....

now seriously, does anyone know if they'll make a sequal of this game? or is there something about phoenix i didn't understand? because i would really expect you'd get the chance to catch phoenix....

[sjdude]

Im totally stumped on CHNOUPH.. I collect the letters to make up 'sol invictus' but nothing happens... I've collected them the right way round and in reverse.. I've streamed around the screen for ages.. held the letters on the sun.. just can't seem to get it..

Someone please help....

[futumtch]

Im totally stumped on CHNOUPH.. I collect the letters to make up 'sol invictus' but nothing happens... I've collected them the right way round and in reverse.. I've streamed around the screen for ages.. held the letters on the sun.. just can't seem to get it..Just collect the letters in the right order ensuring nothing touches the trail of letters. Collecting the last letter 's' should complete the level.

[vantor]

The English patch is out. You can find it on the Ubisoft UK support site.
And a cheat that worked in the beta, I don't know if it still works:

Press the shift key with one of the arrow keys

[QnQ]

Please heeeeeeeeeelllppp me... Don't Understand the quest VARI. recieve email with correcr password and install the the soundcracker tool. But i hear only sound and nothing else after entering the pass. What i have to do? thnx for all helps.... :frusty: :frusty:

[Dale Baldwin]

Bah. This sucks. I've got all the way to the latter stages of Ignis, and what happens.... the game won't start anymore.

Erreur de script - Object not found 5004.

Anyone else had this happen? (uninstall/reinstall doesn't help).

[Yee Lin]

hey everyone out there!
Can anyone please gimme hints / clues about the Jose Cortado puzzle?? I'm stuck and can't seem to find much about him on the internet. I'm blind @_@ or what?

[Dale Baldwin]

hey everyone out there!
Can anyone please gimme hints / clues about the Jose Cortado puzzle?? I'm stuck and can't seem to find much about him on the internet. I'm blind @_@ or what?

Seaching for José Cortado (with the accent on the e) might be more successful.

[Jen]

Yee Lin, search on "cortado engraving" and the right site will come up at the top of the results.

[Jen]

Please heeeeeeeeeelllppp me... Don't Understand the quest VARI. recieve email with correcr password and install the the soundcracker tool. But i hear only sound and nothing else after entering the pass. What i have to do? thnx for all helps.... :frusty: :frusty:

QnQ, what the sound recorder does is change backward recordings to forward. So far that Vari puzzle is the only one that uses it. If you can't beat the first half of that puzzle, Marco Lerini sends you an email with the spoiler:

umbra profunda sumus

[EmuEmu]

hey!!!

I'm stuck in:
Aer 2
Pepisoth

Could you guys send mi via email screen place Venus.
This is this puzzle ---> http://emu.magma-net.pl/zagadka.jpg
I'm try everything :(((

my email = bu_bu@poczta.onet.pl

sorry about my english :P

cyyja

[Dale Baldwin]

hey!!!

I'm stuck in:
Aer 2
Pepisoth


Listen carefully to the background sounds as you place the circles. The right placed circles will lead to a subtle change, helping you to locate the right position. I never would have matched it with the diagram from the webpage without it.

[Yee Lin]

I'm stuck in Subos.
After i left the puzzle the 1st time i entered it
i can't find the original skeleton pic again
so how am i supposed to position the skeletons in the right way????

[Yee Lin]

hey Vick

u gotta solve the puzzle 1st then only the Audio thingy is useful.
U gotta hear what "it" is saying and type the correct words

u'll receive an email regarding the words. After that, the Audio thingy will be useful.

[Dale Baldwin]

i can't find the original skeleton pic again
so how am i supposed to position the skeletons in the right way????
Ugh, i read about this - a known bug. As far as I'm aware Ubisoft are making another patch to fix it, but I could be wrong.
Irritating for you when you're so far through the game :(
Don't know whether anyone could get a screenshot of what original skeleton pic is supposed to look like (or if there is one already online somewhere).

[Jen]

The bones make a little click when you get them in the correct position. Don't mess with the leftmost arm--it's already set. Do the right elbow and the knees first, then do the right hand and the feet, and then do the head.

[Clara Leal]

Hi there,

somebody please help me with Pepisoth in the AIR-Part of the game. I'm really stuck at the point where I'm supposed to highlight six letters. I tried so many words, but none seemed to work. What on earth am I supposed to enter??

Also, I don't know how to continue in Phu - with the weird dragonfly. I know how to receive the letters, but I don't know the word to construct. However, Phoenix said, I'd find out when I solve Pepisoth. So please, help me on that darn Pepisoth riddle. It's driving me nuts. :frusty:

Thanks a lot!
Go to google, enter the word "nolain" (his nickname in the Phu), and then appers his "real" Name.

[billybob81]

10x! now I'm stuck with the six letters... n ol ai n... i'll figure it out :)

btw - is it anywhere near the end of the game?
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Have you been able to find what the solution is in the pepisoth with the six enlightened letters? I'm there and I'm stuck! :frusty:


please help me or tell me where can i find the answer?

lost billybob81

[Lesley.Harris]

In Pepisoth, I found the image of the sun (http://www.demagia.net/corne.html), and I drew it, but nothing happened... am I doing something wrong?

heeeeeellllpppp.... :crazy:
I also drew the image of the sun and .... nothing. The clues I've been given is to listen to the sounds when you place one in the correct position. Can't hear anything different. HAve you had any luck?

[Tanukitsune]

I also drew the image of the sun and .... nothing. The clues I've been given is to listen to the sounds when you place one in the correct position. Can't hear anything different. HAve you had any luck?
Everytime you put something in the right place you will hear and extra instrument play the background music...
So you just move them and pay attention to when the music changes... All I can say is have patience and listen VERY carefully!

[BeOiR]

Hi! I had the same problem that someone had. Playing PHU i had this message:

"Erreur de lecteur Director
cast member name expected
<void>
erreur de script. Continuer?"

The solution is (extracted from In Memoriam Web):

This sometimes happens in the levels SICHET and PHU. A patch will be available soon, for the time being here is a simple procedure to solve this problem.

Delete the file (file) in the directory Ubi Soft\IN Memoriam\Media\Dir\Save\USER1\

If you encounter a problem in Phu: [file] is s602_phu_02.sav
If you encounter a problem in Sichet: [file] is s805_sichet_02.sav
In the path, User1 is the first registered user
Go in User2 for the second registered user and so on

Just delete that files (it depends the level). Don´t worry, you will be where you were last time. It only resets the level (PHU or SICHET).

Bye!!! (and sorry for my English)

[spaceybez]

So, all you new members here who had just signed up to talk about this game:

How is it? Are you all having fun? Is it really difficult? Is the story any good? Please tell us, please tell me, 'cause I'm thinking of getting it once it's available in the States.

And welcome to the wacky world of Adventure Gamers! :P

It is here in the US I like it, but I am stuck in sophie and getting irritated, I wanna play the game......... :crazy: :\ It is challanging game, but worth it, as long as I can finally play the game, not the puzzles

[fov]

Welcome to the forum, Spaceybez. :)

There have been a lot of posts on this game over in our Hints forum. If you're having trouble, do a search for Missing or In Memoriam over there... and if you can't find the help you need, feel free to post a question!

*D emily

ps Locking this now due to the thread's age...