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Release Date | 8 August 2006 |
Release Type | Freeware |
Content Advisory | None | Suggestive dialog | Strong |
Operating System | Windows |
Setting | Fantasy |
Genre | Investigative |
Story | Original |
Play Length | Medium Length Game |
Language | English |
Graphics | 320x200, 16-Bit Colour |
Downloaded | 20,341 All Time |
Call it a remake, call it a director's cut, or call it a deluxe version. The point is, this is what Case 1 should have been.
Features:
Revamped graphics
Extended storyline
Full Voice Acting
Grundislav | Art, Writing, Scripting |
AGA | Additional Puzzle Design |
Alien Rape Escape | Ideas, Programming |
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 1 - In Search of the Skunk-Ape | Additional Puzzle Design |
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 2 - The Lost Galleon of the Salton Sea | Additional Puzzle Design |
Box | Everything |
Christmas Quest | Programming |
Christmas Quest 2: The Yuletide Flows in | Programming |
Christmas Quest 3: Santa's Little Help Desk | Programming |
Jon Stickman demo | Creator |
Saturday School | Very Special Thanks |
Secret of Hutton: Special Edition | Sierra GUI |
The Secret of Hutton Church of England Grammar School | Sierra GUI |
Ghormak | Music |
Petteri A | Additional Music |
Deflus Technical Demo | Music |
Emily Enough: Imprisoned | Betatesting |
Pester Quest | Character Design |
Piratess | |
PiXiA: Rainbow of Havoc | Voice Actor |
Recess 2 | Music |
Search for the christmas present REMAKE | |
Secret of Hutton: Special Edition | Music |
The Hamlet | Music, background art, betatesting |
Who wants to live forever? | Music |
Creed Malay | Co-Writer |
[RotN] Gatitos: The Paws of Fate | Author |
Little Girl in Underland | Voice Acting |
Reality-on-the-Norm: Stuck at Home | Testing |
The Day That Nothing Happened | Design, Writing and New Graphics |
DaveGilbert | Receptionist (Voice) |
Bestowers of Eternity - Part One | Creator |
Blackwell Deception | Design, programming |
Blackwell Epiphany | Writing, programming, voiceover directing |
Blackwell Legacy, The | Coder/Designer/Writer |
Blackwell Unbound | Design, coding, writing |
Eyes of the Jade Sphinx | |
Gemini Rue | Voice Directing & Casting |
Hard Space: Conquest of the Gayliks! | Pragmatic Puzzle Suggestions |
He Watches (DEMO) | QA/Testing |
Kathy Rain | VO Recording & Direction |
Limey Lizard: Waste Wizard! | Voice, Testing and Support |
Mind's Eye | Tester |
PMX: The Magic Hat | Beta testing |
Primordia | Publisher, Voice Actor (Hansel Rossumbuilt, Scraper) |
Reality-on-the-Norm: Cold Storage | Testing |
Reality-on-the-Norm: Stuck at Home | Testing |
Reality-on-the-Norm: The Postman Only Dies Once | Author |
Reality-on-the-Norm: The Repossessor (2014) | Original story & design |
Resonance | Voice acting direction |
Shardlight | Producer |
Strangeland | Publishing & Voice Work |
Tea For Two: A Detective Logan Case | Voice Acting |
Technobabylon | Almost certainly some stuff |
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow | Publishing and voice direction |
The Shivah | Writing, character animations, coding |
Two of a Kind | design/dialog/coding |
Unavowed | Writing, design and programming |
Whispers of a Machine | Voice Direction |
Zombie Attack (BAKE SALE) | Bake Sale Organizer |
Scummbuddy | Ranger Rick (Voice) |
Pester Quest | Game Designer, Animation, Character Des |
MrColossal | Ben Jordan (Voice) |
6 Day Assassin | Art, Puzzles, Scripting, just everything |
Automation | Creator |
Little Girl in Underland | Voice Acting |
Los Jovenes De La Guerra | Art, Puzzles, Story, just everything. |
Secret of Hutton: Special Edition | Animation |
Spellbound: A Clive Mandrake Adventure | Art Story and all that |
SSH's Walkcycle Generator | Walkcycle tutorials that inspired it |
Time Out Teaser Trailer | Creator |
AlecW | Jed (Voice) |
Lone Case 3: Showdown | Voice Actor |
netmonkey | Robot Shaman (Voice) |
Disco | Lloyd Daniels (Voice) |
Secret Quest Remake | Play-testing |
Star Trek Newton: Part One - Anomaly | Additional Ideas and Animations |
The deluxe version 'slightly' extends the original game's storyline and adds revamped backgrounds and voices to the mix, though the quality of the performances is a mixed bag. Overall, Ben Jordan Case 1 and its successors are not to be missed.
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The extra detail put into this definitely makes it a more enjoyable game than the original.
Enjoyed this, looking forward to the rest of the series. Some puzzles are a bit obscure especially the final "do or die" one where certain things that seemed logical to me weren't allowed and the one correct action was not at all obvious, so I was frustrated at the end by repeatedly dying and reloading and eventually had to consult a walkthrough for that one final step of the game.
loved it, need more games like thisss.
I made the mistake of playing Ben Jordan 7 as my first Ben Jordan game and I had serious problems understanding the style, the themes, and the characters of the series.
But now I've played this deluxe version of Case 1 and it was a blast. I'd describe Ben Jordan as an unique mix of Monkey Island and Gabriel Knight (with an emphasis on GK). I particularly enjoyed the atmosphere of the park (great use of sound indeed), the witty writing, the interactivity, the puzzles, the excellent music, and all those ranger type characters (including The Narrator).
The only distracting (or even plain disturbing) element was Ben Jordan's classic "outfit". I do understand it's already an essential part of the character though.
An excellent improvement over the original game 1!
Good Things:
-Before, it was few things, but now, everything is good about it!
Bad Things:
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- I got nothing.