There was this really pretty hand-drawn (almost painted, really) point and click adventure game targeted towards little kids I played at least 16 years ago. The plot was fairly simple (no clue what it even was) but you basically had to collect colored stones by solving simple puzzles in the environment. One of the puzzles involved helping a baby polar bear cross the ice to get back to its mother. There wasn't any speech or words that I recall, it was pure graphics and music. The navigation was Myst-style in that it was first-person perspective, only there was no rotation of the scenes. You just clicked to move from place to place.
Anyone have any ideas? I'm pretty sure this was one of those "bargain bin" adventure games found in stores like Staples.
Never heard of anything like it. It doesn't sound like anything that Humongous Entertainment put out though, so we can pretty safely rule all of their games out.
Yeah, it definitely wasn't cartoony in any way. The game looked like it was designed by a high-class artist or something; it was beautifully drawn with very fine details. The goal might have had something to do with putting the moon back in the sky or something moon-related.
Team Xtreme: Operation Weather Disaster? (http://www.mobygames.com/game/team-xtreme-operation-weather-disaster/screenshots)
Not quite, but vaguely similar in style! Interesting name choice. XD
I don't recall the game having any inventory at all beyond the colored gemstones. All the puzzles were environment-based like Myst if I recall correctly. And the puzzles were more things like "click on the plants in the right order" or something, it wasn't technology-heavy. More nature-based puzzles.
Terratopia? (http://worldvillage.com/terratopia)
Certainly much closer theme wise, but again there was little to no dialogue of any kind. This does not ring a bell at all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE_jNq17BWw I did think it was intriguing that the game I played had multiple different environments, though. It was also somewhat short and I don't think any of the puzzles were highly complex, or at least they didn't really give me a challenge at the time. It was more of an "ooh, let's explore the pretty environment" kind of game.
And no, it's not The Lost Island of Alanna either, I checked.
Thanks for keeping an eye out! :)
It's not spacetrip, is it? (http://www.alawar.com/game/spacetrip/)
No, sorry. While it does look like a cute game it doesn't really match most of my criteria.
So, I just want to make this thing a bit more cleare:
- A Myst-like 1st person adventure game.
- You played it around '96 or '95 so it was released during or prior those years.
- Art was handdrawn, but not cartoony.
- No inventory besides colored stones.
- No interaction with other people.
- Different enviroments that included arctic.
Do you remember what machine you played it on? Was it for DOS, Windows, Mac or CD-i?
Yeah, that about covers it. It was either Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or DOS. I definitely played it before 1998, but I'm not sure exactly how early I played it.
(Posted on: Mon 05/16/11)
AHA! My sister remembered just enough! ;D The star of the game was a girl named Rockett, and apparently there were a bunch of games starring her that we used to own:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Moon
The one I remember that had the polar bears was most likely Secret Paths to the Sea. The game actually came with a bag of colored stones.
Also, while there was no direct interaction, finding stones unlocked different parts of the story, which I forgot about.
Just checked all the databases I was using and couldn't find that one in any of them. Well, luckily you found it out.
Quote from: Oldbushie on May 23, 2011, 05:44:58 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Moon
QuoteThe company faced criticism including charges of sexism (mostly due to their belief that girls would not enjoy the more popular action-oriented games often associated with boys and young men) and ethnic stereotyping.
I'm think I'm in love with this company. Apparently they got bought by Mattel in '99 and made a bunch of Barbie and Dora the Adventurer games.
This is amazing, one of the people that worked on a Rockett game was one of the head honchos from Capstone Software! Crappy licenced games forever!
Hahaha! Yeah, I can see why Mattel bought them. ;) I honestly didn't remember the ethnic stereotyping until I looked at the game booklet scans online... I guess back when the games first came out, it was progressive enough to have multiple cultures in a game regardless of how they are portrayed.