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Speculum Mortis (pronounced 'SPEC-cool-loom MORE-tis' — Latin for 'mirror of death') is Happo's first finished game.

I N T R O D U C T I O N
In a nutshell, Speculum Mortis is a horror-styled point-and-click adventure. Except a few hues of gold and red, all the environments in Speculum Mortis are presented in grayscale to illustrate the darkness and the predominant psychological horror atmosphere. Gameplay itself consists of wandering around a Victorian age residence which was abandoned years ago — or so it seems at first glance.

G A M E P L A Y
One of the unique features of Speculum Mortis is the simple control system: the whole game is operated by mouse. Atmosphere will be gloomy and anxious as you wander around the residence exploring your surroundings and using the items you've found to solve puzzles.

R E C E P T I O N
Speculum Mortis has been acclaimed on the official Game Maker Community as well as on Finnish Game Maker Suomi forums. On the latter forums, the game was chosen as one of the Chosen Games and was also awarded as the Best Game of the Year 2007 (scroll down to "T1. Vuoden peli"). GMS Oscar 2007 - Vuoden peli: Speculum Mortis

T R I V I A
On 8th January, 2007, FS told his idea about point-and-click horror adventure to SP, and thus Speculum Mortis was started as a non-serious project with a deadline of 30 minutes. After FS and SP had spent some two hours on first two rooms of the game, they decided to promote the game into a full-scale project.

Game was originally planned to be released on Halloween, but due to insufficient planning and programmer's laziness, Speculum Mortis v1.0 didn't see daylight until 11th November.

It is possible to spot 10 instances of the word 'Happo' hidden in the backgrounds throughout the game.

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Speculum Mortis: Regret v1.06
2,8 MB zipped / 3,8 MB unzipped
released on 25th August, 2008

Readme.txt
also included within the download

Walkthrough
HTML

Speculum Mortis v0.1 [BONUS]
Butler & the Whitfords [BONUS]
Jack-o'-lantern [BONUS]

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MAIN PAGE — GENERAL INFO — LEGAL INFO — GUESTBOOK — SPECULUM MORTIS — PICCU WICCU


Speculum Mortis (pronounced 'SPEC-cool-loom MORE-tis' — Latin for 'mirror of death') is Happo's first finished game. I N T R O D U C T I O N In a nutshell, Speculum Mortis is a horror-styled point-and-click adventure. Except a few hues of gold and red, all the environments in Speculum Mortis are presented in grayscale to illustrate the darkness and the predominant psychological horror atmosphere. Gameplay itself consists of wandering around a Victorian age residence which was abandoned years ago — or so it seems at first glance. G A M E P L A Y One of the unique features of Speculum Mortis is the simple control system: the whole game is operated by mouse. Atmosphere will be gloomy and anxious as you wander around the residence exploring your surroundings and using the items you've found to solve puzzles. R E C E P T I O N Speculum Mortis has been acclaimed on the official Game Maker Community as well as on Finnish Game Maker Suomi forums. On the latter forums, the game was chosen as one of the Chosen Games and was also awarded as the Best Game of the Year 2007 (scroll down to "T1. Vuoden peli"). T R I V I A On 8th January, 2007, FS told his idea about point-and-click horror adventure to SP, and thus Speculum Mortis was started as a non-serious project with a deadline of 30 minutes. After FS and SP had spent some two hours on first two rooms of the game, they decided to promote the game into a full-scale project. Game was originally planned to be released on Halloween, but due to insufficient planning and programmer's laziness, Speculum Mortis v1.0 didn't see daylight until 11th November. It is possible to spot 10 instances of the word 'Happo' hidden in the backgrounds throughout the game.

				Speculum Mortis: Regret v1.06 2,8 MB zipped / 3,8 MB unzipped released on 25th August, 2008 Readme.txt also included within the download Walkthrough HTML
	Speculum Mortis v0.1 [BONUS]	Butler & the Whitfords [BONUS]	Jack-o'-lantern [BONUS]