Hidden object game

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The Wimmelspiel or hidden object game is a computer game form and version of the Computer Brain Games. It is a digital version of the hidden object book.

description

The player tries to find various objects, parts of objects or geometric figures in a mostly detailed, still or very little animated image. The difficulty in finding things, at least initially, is that the player does not know the type of representation, shape, size, orientation, etc. Many terms also have multiple meanings. Sometimes things cannot be found directly, but are hidden in others, so that they first have to be removed or opened with a click. In some games, the items have to be found within a certain time limit if possible. There are hidden object games that are all about discovering things, and there are games in which pictures are framed by an action. There are also programs that combine hidden objects with various other types of puzzles , often called HOPA (acronym for Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure ).

history

In 1991 appeared in Japan developed 1st-Person - Point-and-click adventure Alice: An Interactive Museum has the player in a virtual museum find 52 playing cards. Due to the similar mechanics, the title is considered the first hidden object game, even if the term was not invented at the time. The first hidden object game in the narrower sense is Mystery Case Files: Huntsville by the US studio Big Fish Games , which introduced today's game mechanics with still images and object lists in 2005.

Hidden Object have in casual games (Engl. Casual games) become a popular trend. Examples of hidden object game series include Dream Chronicles (PlayFirst), Mortimer Beckett (RealArcade / GameHouse), Hidden Expedition, and Mystery Case Files (both from Big Fish Games ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ally Noble Desert Island Disks . Retro Gamer (Imagine Publishing) (53): 79. "Hidden object games ... For example, you're a detective looking for clues in a picture ... they might be in monochrome on the wallpaper or peeping out from behind something."
  2. Softonic.com: Hidden object games for iPad. Retrieved September 12, 2018 .
  3. ^ Albert Kim (September 30, 2008). "Casual Games: 'Peggle Nights' and 'The Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes'" . EW.com. "Mystery titles, particularly hidden-object games, have become a hugely popular segment of the casual-game market". Retrieved July 24, 2013