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The first ever game created under then “Weggieware”. Released in 2009, it was a investigation story with supernatural elements. 640×480 resolution.

While visiting your cousin in Leeds Point, New Jersey, a neighbor child goes missing. Being in the FBI (though a desk-jockey, not the field-op type), you are thrust into the middle of the investigation. Did the legendary creature take the child, as the mother claims? Or is something more nefarious at hand in the sleepy southern New Jersey pine barrens?

Part 2 of the Murran Chronicles Trilogy. Also released in 2009, and running at 640×480 resolution. The graphics were a bit better, though not much. The puzzle and story were much more fleshed out than Part 1.

AGS Award Nominee 2009: Best Dialogue Writing
AGS Award Nominee 2009: Best Original Story

After the experience in southern New Jersey, you are moved to another division of the FBI and promoted to special agent status. This new division investigates the stranger cases, and this is one of them. Cattle have been mutilated, taken long distances from their farms and eaten by something. There have been sightings of large creatures in the sky and three unsolved murders within recent months. You are thrust into an investigation ripe with intrigue as you explore Montana while trying to solve the mystery of who or what is killing the cattle, and why three people have turned up dead. Could it be a creature thought extinct millions of years ago? Or do the Sioux Indians have something to do with it?

The final part of the Murran Chronicles trilogy, The Lifedrinker of Landsdowne was released in 2011. It is a longer, more well developed game. Shortly after your adventure with the mystery in Montana, you are given a case involving mysterious deaths in Landsdowne, Massachusetts. The bodies of two men in their early twenties have been found recently, and according to local authorities both dead men looked to be in their seventies when their bodies were found. There is no explanation as both men were thought to be healthy, and in the prime of their lives. Add to this the odd reports of a pack of strange animals roaming the town at night, and you have your work cut out for you.

Is there some sort of vampire creature on the loose as some of the town rumors suggest? What is behind the rumors of odd goat-like creatures that have been seen after nightfall? Are the two related? You are thrown into the midst of an age long battle between good and evil as you investigate the case of the Life Drinker of Landsdowne.

Mr. Danger’s Contest was a part of the May, 2009 MAGS Special Game Competition. The MAGS contest is for games to be created within a single month, from scratch. No modules, plugins or recycled resources. The theme for May 2009 was “Hosts”. Each game must feature a host in some way, shape or form. Runs in 320×200 resolution.

The sound effects and music were all me, in my microphone, with nothing but my voice.

AGS Awards 2009 Nominee: Best Music
AGS Awards 2009 Nominee: Best Sound Effects

You are James McManus, a loner. You receive an invitation from a mysterious Mr. Danger to come and compete in a competition against other ‘special people’ to inherit his millions of dollars. Not one to pass up that much money, you head to his secluded mansion. Once there, things quickly turn deadly, and you must not only be the winner of the competition, but you must also try to figure out who is killing the competition before they do away with you.