Black Sails (computer game)
| Black Sails: the ghost ship | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | Deck13 | ||
| Publisher | Astragon | ||
| Senior Developer | Jan Klose, Timm Schwank | ||
| composer | Tilman Sillescu, Marc Rosenberger | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
April 22, 2010 | ||
| platform | Microsoft Windows | ||
| Game engine | PINA | ||
| genre | Point-and-click adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | Mouse & keyboard | ||
| medium | CD-ROM , download | ||
| language | German English | ||
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Black Sails: Das Geisterschiff is a point-and-click adventure developed in Germany from 2010 and was released exclusively for PCs with Windows operating systems. The developer was the Frankfurt studio Deck13 , which already created the Ankh trilogy and the role-playing game Venetica .
action
Black Sails is set in 1884. The young reporter Anna is on a business trip to Portugal when her ship suddenly sinks. Exhausted, she finds herself in the ice-cold water, together with another passenger named Lex. A sailing ship passes them. Despite desperate calls for help, the two receive no answer. You can climb aboard the sailing ship and begin to uncover the dark secrets of the two-master. Anna finds diary pages scattered around the ship, on which a certain Fiona is mentioned again and again. She is plagued by bizarre dreams in which Fiona appears. Anna can reveal the secret, although in the end she can no longer trust her mind.
Game principle and technology
Black Sails is a 3D point-and-click adventure . For polygons composite, three-dimensional figures to act likewise in three-dimensional scenes. The player can use the mouse to move his character through the locations and use the mouse buttons to initiate actions that allow the character to interact with his environment. Anna can find objects, apply them to the environment or other objects and communicate with NPCs . As the story progresses, more locations will be unlocked. The camera shows what is happening from a variable perspective; If the player leaves the field of view, the camera moves and takes a new, better position.
Production notes
In September 2015, Black Sails was re-released on the Steam distribution platform . The digital version can run on modern Windows versions and contains a German and an English sound track.
speaker
| role | German speaker |
|---|---|
| Anna | Natascha Geisler |
| Lex | Frank Schaff |
| Fiona | Luisa Wietzorek |
| Charles Marquez | Werner Ziebig |
| Doctor Eduardo Juarez | Kaspar Eichel |
| Boy W. Head | Andreas Hosang |
| César | Tilo Schmitz |
reception
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The specialist magazine Adventure-Treff praised the atmosphere and the flow of the game and pointed out that Black Sails is one of the few contemporary adventure games that does without stretching the game time by adding puzzles to the plot; this makes the game very "compact". The magazine criticized the resulting short playing time, old-fashioned graphics and an abrupt ending; these points are due to a presumably low budget. The German-language magazine 4Players praised the creepy atmosphere and an interface optimized for casual gamers and only criticized the short playing time of around six hours. Reviewer Jan Wöbbeking described the game's puzzles as logically structured, but not very innovative.
Web links
- Black Sails: The ghost ship at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gamezone.de: Black Sails: Das Geisterschiff: Well-known voice actors on board. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Adventure-Treff.de: Black Sails - The ghost ship. Retrieved February 19, 2017 .
- ↑ a b 4Players.de: Test: Black Sails - Das Geisterschiff. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .