Dark Mansion aims to create one of those hybrid kind of things between digital world and analogue. It’s an rpg (dungeon crawler) affair, with the occasional print off, and really easy AI for the old minions and boss levels.
Well… will be when I’ve finished thinking about that part!
The main thing I wanted to do was come up with a way of adventuring which kept a little mystery at the same time as enabling me to create a way of story/mystery.
Now of course you can cheat. But I am hoping that you won’t. But then you can cheat at all games.
So here is what happens.
First thing is you each adventure is broken down into a few smaller sections. Each section is password protected. you get the password by combining words revealed as you to through the adventure… or letters or something.
Each section also needs printing off. It’s like having a few rooms that you will work though that session.
Now it’s just a sketch map, thats all. And on each ‘room’ on the sketch map there is a QR code. Scan it.
That will give you some information about that room… because it will take you to a secret page on this website. Or somewhere anyway! It will tell you the size of the room, perhaps a layout, which you can draw on squared paper if you wish.
It will also list any bad guys you might end up battling with. That will be a simple roll and write kind of thing at first I imagine.
If you win, then there is a link to click to see what you get. If you fail, then there will be another link…
Now just in case you thought that would be easy, and you’d know that every room had something in it, you’d be wrong. Because some pages will have NOTHING in them. Evil huh?
As you go through you’ll discover mysteries, scraps of stories, with the objective of discovering the secret password which will give you access to the next ‘level’. Which in turn will be in one of the rooms.
First step though is to get us a playing area… so here goes…
Start HERE
