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November 22, 2022

journey in the mine [browser]

After 4 years Jo99 is back with a new point and click adventure in his unique drawing style: Journey in the Mine. Follow little Alice in search of her cat through the mines of Nyoiseau for a journey full of surprises. (alternative link)

24 comments:

  1. Anonymous22 November 2022 at 16:20

    Can anybody help me to get the lamp? I'm totally stuck

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  2. Frobisher22 November 2022 at 16:33

    It's in the church — there's another part of the mural you can click on, which is actually the lamp on a table

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  3. Anonymous22 November 2022 at 21:15

    Visually, very nice. As a game? Not so great.

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  4. Smowler22 November 2022 at 21:26

    Hmmm - I loved all the mill imagery, but it was soooo sloooow.

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  5. Stevens Miller23 November 2022 at 00:22

    @Smowler, gotta agree. Took minutes to load, minutes to get to "How To Play." When we clicked "start" and it showed "Loading" yet again, we just lost interest.

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  6. Anonymous23 November 2022 at 08:31

    Thx @ Frobisher :)

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  7. Spike23 November 2022 at 10:13

    I don't get the hint for the Safe-Combination. Help?

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  8. Anonymous23 November 2022 at 10:22

    Great visuals, easy to play, emotional storytelling. Love it!

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  9. Siobhán Long's sister23 November 2022 at 11:33

    Wouldn't load at all in Chrome; Firefox 15 minutes so far and counting.

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  10. Bart23 November 2022 at 11:36

    @Siobhan Long's sister, I have just updated the post with an alternative link

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  11. Siobhán Long's sister23 November 2022 at 11:54

    Well, it eventually did load in Firefox, but the game is unplayable. The game's play screen is far too big and cannot be adjusted.

    Poor show.

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  12. Anonymous23 November 2022 at 14:30

    While waiting for it to load in Chrome, I loaded it and started to play in Firefox.

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  13. Anonymous23 November 2022 at 14:57

    As with most oversized Unity games there is a fullscreen button bottom right.
    As for the slow loading screens, I think Jo99 missed a trick or 2.
    The how to play part should have been visible during loading screen.
    And you should be able to read the history during load screens too.

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  14. Anonymous24 November 2022 at 14:01

    Very slow loading every new area or clip, your going to needs hours to play this.
    Does the save actually work? I think my Firefox settings delete on exit.
    I wasted 2 hours on this now for about 10 mins of play, & not done or saved.

    BTW. you can read the book during a load screen.

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  15. a12r1324 November 2022 at 16:03

    Nice game, but far too slow... and useless animations.
    Strange because the previous Jo99 did not have these issues.

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  16. Anonymous24 November 2022 at 16:13

    For sure use the (alternative link), it only took 30 mins to play all the way through.
    Also it only used 55% of my memory whereas the first link was over 93% when I quit.

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  17. TiCKed25 November 2022 at 06:47

    @Spike:
    Yeah, I had trouble with the safe combo as well. I could tell that the solution was SUPPOSED to be contained in the three pictures referenced, but I couldn't see or divine the images/icons that were supposed to be seen(?) I ended up opening the safe by trial-and-error, which got me further along....but then I quit when a similar "I know what I'm supposed to see...but can't" situation came along, and I quit.

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  18. a12r1325 November 2022 at 08:22

    @Spike and TiCKed

    For the safe combination you need to use glasses : then you see the colors and associated shapes

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  19. Anonymous26 November 2022 at 11:40

    didn't work on Chrome and Firefox, will try the alternative link...

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  20. Anonymous26 November 2022 at 12:14

    Yes no, it doesn't work either on the alternative link. It's too heavy and needs to much memory.
    It's a pity, I love those games.

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  21. Rebecca27 November 2022 at 06:45

    I really enjoyed this. So lovely to see a new Jo99 game! Excellent atmosphere, music, art, storytelling. The gameplay was enjoyable. Loading new scenes was slow (using Chrome), but I did other things while waiting and it didn't bother me. Now to go back and replay the other Jo99 games again.

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  22. Nathan K.28 November 2022 at 20:16

    Lovely! A wonderful experience.

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  23. Anonymous5 December 2022 at 22:07

    So, she was all worried about them after the cave in, and then finds them just chillin' out and playing checkers?!?! HAHA!

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  24. eszterencs8 January 2023 at 21:55

    What a beautifully drawn game! And the story is also touching, I loved the many small details, the girl's point of view, as we see her memories and imagination. I also love industrial buildings. So I think this game is fantastic, and truly a piece of art! Who cares the animation or loading new rooms are so slow? I enjoyed the details of the pictures during loading. :-)

    Thank you for sharing it!

    I tried to play on full screen, but when I couldn't get out of the car, I figured it is not fitting well on my screen.

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