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Spooks
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by Erin Robinson

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about
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Spooks was originally designed as a short game for a monthly A.G.S. competition (MAGS), but it quickly took on an afterlife of its own. 

The game now boasts a sideshow of quirky interactable characters, hours of engaging gameplay, and an adventure that takes you from the Land of the Dead to places even more bizarre.

All game music was composed by The Scorposer, who also provided the sound effects.

Scripting was provided by the invincible Vince Twelve. 

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story
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You play as the adorably sarcastic Mortia, a little ghoul girl who is spending the day at the local Carnage-Val.  A smooth-talking skeleton convinces her to play a game of darts, but little does she know she is about to win the most amazing prize she's ever seen: a live goldfish.

Mortia has no idea what the word "alive" means.  However, she knows that if she doesn't find her goldfish someplace safe to be "alive," and soon, it will die.  Apparently, this is rather unpleasant. 

So, she names her new companion "Spooks," and together they must gather clues from the many weird and wild characters they meet...even if this means heckling a cyclops, taking advice from a fallen angel, or bargaining with a 3-headed invisible monster.  Along the way, this tiny ghoul might stir up trouble all the way from the underworld to.....well, you'll just have to play the game to find out.

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playing
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Spooks uses the classic Sierra-styled interface.  A GUI along the top of the screen will allow you to change the mouse mode.  Alternatively, right-clicking will let you cycle through the modes.

The modes are

Cross-bones: "Walk to"
Eyes: "Look at"
Hand: "Interact with"
Speech bubble: "Talk to"
Box: "Inventory"

Clicking on the inventory button will bring up the inventory screen.  Here, you can click the "Look at" and "Interact" buttons to examine or pick up an inventory item, respectively.  Alternatively, you may right-click an item to examine it.  Click the arrow button to close the inventory screen.

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website
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This game is hosted by xii games.  Try out other great games at the xii games website:

http://games.thexiis.com

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version information
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Spooks v1.0
  Released: February 14th, 2006

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Thank you for playing
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