The Hidden Lands Updated

For the past few days I've been working out bugs and providing a "cheat sheet" for The Hidden Lands, the free interactive multi-media treasure hunt game on my website. I'm still making changes even now, but they're mostly aesthetic (modeling and texturing), so the game is fully playable at this time. I added the cheat sheet to the PDF Treasure Guide--or I should say "answer sheet"--because I realized the puzzles-within-puzzles concept of the game is pretty complex. I played the game myself after months of having it on my website, and it was as if I were a newcomer to it. I'd forgotten the Puzzle Words, the Key Word, the Steps of the Secret Treasure Path, what some of the cues meant, etc., and I had to figure them out by playing the game in order to create the answer sheet. It's only then that I realized that an answer sheet really was necessary.

There were also a few bugs related to choices taking the player to new web pages. I had some links leading to nowhere (now fixed), and I discovered that some browsers on some computers didn't always make the link connection to new web pages, even though the correct URL would show up in the URL box. Weird. It seems the only solution to that is to have the player click in the URL box and press Return to reload the page. (I saw this problem occurring only on someone's old PC laptop.) Anyway, I've fixed all of the other problems that have been brought to my attention. And if anyone is stumped by a puzzle, a cue, a seeming dead end, they can use the answer sheet in the Treasure Guide to get out of it.

I'm going to add another feature to The Hidden Lands, and I'm still working out the details of it: Throughout the game there are going to be other hidden "secret treasure paths" that can only be revealed by making a small payment in my online store. (The rest of the game will still be free to access and play.) I haven't worked out what these hidden secret treasure paths lead to, but I should come up with something soon. Thanks for reading, have a great day, and have fun playing the game!

Here's where the game starts. Just click the link/image at the bottom of this page:

http://www.theenchantedkiosk.com/Pages/TheEnchantedKiosk/images/Welcome.html