35 years after level and click on horror recreation Final Half of Darkness first launched it is coming again, remade from the bottom up by the identical solo dev who created it.
In honour of the thirty fifth anniversary (effectively, technically thirty sixth now) of the 1989 authentic, Invoice Fisher has gone again to the beginning by remaking the primary Final Half of Darkness with all-new graphics, a brand new soundtrack, “enhanced” story, and “much more” puzzles. You may take a look at the announcement teaser under:
“Your aunt positive was a wierd one,” the blurb teases. “She was some kind of witch or one thing. A great witch although, training solely good spells and magic. In actual fact, she was engaged on a potion simply earlier than she was killed.
“Now the key will go to the grave along with her… until yow will discover the lacking elements.”
“I made it on an XT PC 64k RAM system with a 10mb arduous drive over a 9 month interval, simply working part-time on it,” Fisher defined. “Was goofing round with some paint packages seeing if I may make some cool trying rooms and places. It ended up turning out comparatively good so I made a decision to really package deal it. Employed an artist to do the package deal design and located a field producer, and so on. Obtained it in a pair retail shops domestically, and offered just a few at some conventions however wasn’t actually acquainted or had the appropriate contacts with the distribution facet of issues so it by no means was formally launched commercially.
“Nevertheless, proper round that point, shareware was beginning to actually take off… and turned out to be very profitable.”
Final Half of Darkness is about to launch on Steam on seventh February 2025, though should you missed the unique first time round, fear not – that is nonetheless obtainable, too.
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