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The games story revolves around a safe cracker, being hired by the family of a recently deceased billionaire and oil magnate, Duncan W. Adams. The player has been employed to find the will of Duncan W. Adams, by cracking the 35 safes that were in his possession.
The board game Mastermind was an early influence on Safecracker.. Safecracker was conceived in 1994 by acquaintances Jörgen Isaksson and Nigel Papworth of Umeå, Sweden. [5] [6] [7] Papworth's interest in making games was first sparked when Isaksson showed him Myst: its simple HyperCard engine suggested to Papworth that game programming could be easy.
Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions is a video game released in 2000, part of The Incredible Machine video game series. The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions is an expansion pack released in 2001. [1] It started a service allowing players to share their homemade puzzles using a service called "WonSwap".
Variations on the "big box" format include a box within a sleeve, such as Unreal, and a box with a fold-out front cover, such as Black & White. Games re-released as budget games usually came in much smaller boxes—a common format for Amiga budget games was a thin square box roughly 13 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm (roughly 5in x 5in x 1in).
Reviews at the time were generally mixed-to-positive. GamePro gave Home Improvement: Power Tool Pursuit! a mixed review, calling it "like Pitfall with power tools". They commented that the game plays well and is easy to pick up on, has solid graphics, but features mediocre music, and concluded that it would be fun for side-scrolling fans and enthusiasts of the TV show, but is not challenging ...
The game was re-released as Blackhole: Complete Edition on June 15, 2016. [5] This version includes the fully updated base game, 3 DLCs ( Testing Lab , Secret of the Entity and Challenge Vault ), digital artbook and soundtrack, developer diaries, first prototype of the game, printable high resolution artwork, wallpapers, and collector cards. [ 5 ]
The game takes place in the titular Word Factory, which teaches reading and spelling in four different activities and has over 200 three-letter words and more than 70 pictures for learning. [2] [4] The following four activities are: 1. Sorter - the player is required to pick words that start with a chosen letter and discard the rest. 2.
The game received favorable reviews from critics and players. Reviewers found the game “unlike anything”, [8] “devilishly clever”, [9] and “utterly diabolical” [10] with many noting its novel breadth of mechanics using device sensors and system features. The game has received over 90,000 five-star reviews on the iOS App Store worldwide.