Post by svarthattkatt on Apr 30, 2019 15:26:52 GMT
After a lot of searching I found a short horror game I played over a decade ago that I'd forgotten the name of, it's called Creep: The Last Tube. It was released as a promotion for a 2004 film. It can no longer be found anywhere except the internet archive:
Tomysshadow says that if a dcr file is less than 20 kb it's likely lost, but this file is over 200 kb so maybe someone can make it playable by hacking?
After a lot of searching I found a short horror game I played over a decade ago that I'd forgotten the name of, it's called Creep: The Last Tube. It was released as a promotion for a 2004 film. It can no longer be found anywhere except the internet archive:
Tomysshadow says that if a dcr file is less than 20 kb it's likely lost, but this file is over 200 kb so maybe someone can make it playable by hacking?
Unfortunately, the game is missing four files that Wayback did not capture (blank.cct, blank2.cct, SoundCast.cct and font.cct)
You don't think it can be made playable? It could still be playable without sound and a text font seems easy to recreate, but I don't know what blank is. I submitted it to the Flashpoint Lost Game Request Form.
Last Edit: May 5, 2019 14:35:32 GMT by svarthattkatt
I have also been looking for this game! Thank you, OP, for talking about this game. I really hope to play it again and finish it because it used to be scary to me as a kind.
Post by TheCracksOverhead on May 3, 2021 22:51:54 GMT
This game came up during my search for the lost Oysterhead Maze game. I've never seen the movie this game was based off of, but this looked interesting so I searched around a bit.
Unfortunately Tomy is correct - the Wayback Machine did not seem to capture the files correctly. In fact, there's actually 17 files + the DCR file that are required for the game to run, not just 4!
After poking around in the DCR, the game appears to have been developed by "JailDog" and the DCR says it was modified by "sir mix lot - ass" (??).
Here's a link dump of stuff that I've found about the game:
www.escapegames24.com/2006/05/last-tube.html - A duplicate listing for the game on the same site as the last link, but it has a different screenshot! Also has a comments section.
List of files required for the game to run (just for reference):
BBall.ls blank.cct blank2.cct creep.dcr font.cct JAController.ls JASequence.ls JCamera.ls JCore.ls JDominoLoader.ls JFlash.ls JHud.ls JMain.ls JRecTimeline.ls JRecVarStream.ls JString.ls MovieScript.ls SoundCast.cct If I find anything new I'll post about it here.
Edit: By the way, I've sent an email in an attempt to contact Anthony Rushton to see if we can recover this game.
Post by TheCracksOverhead on May 4, 2021 19:36:22 GMT
I got an email back from Anthony.
Unfortunately he says that he doesn't recall what happened to the files, so he is unable to help.
I'm still not exactly sure if he's the one who programmed/created the game.. I only emailed him because I think he was the main person over JailDog.
There were two other people who worked at JailDog who we could try to contact: Beau Chesluk and Russell Irwin. I think that they are more likely to be the ones who actually programmed the game.
I would ask Anthony for their contact info, but he seems like a busy person and I don't want to come off as annoying.
I'm going to try to find a way to contact Beau Chesluk next. If someone could help find me a way to contact him or Russel that would be great.
Post by TheCracksOverhead on May 18, 2021 13:29:09 GMT
Small update - About two weeks ago, I discovered a NintendoLife article that features an interview with Beau Chesluk. After getting into contact with the article writer, he said that he doesn't have any contact information for Beau, but instead they talked over Linkedin messaging. I sent Pixi.fm a message on Facebook asking if I could speak to either Beau or Russell since they actually both work there. No response yet, as they haven't read the message yet. I have also found the Linkedin pages for Beau and Russell and today I've sent them both a "connection request". You're able to add a note with a connection request, and I did with Russell, but I made a mistake when sending Beau one and I ended up not including a note with the request. Oh well, hopefully one of them will respond.
Post by TheCracksOverhead on Aug 8, 2021 0:13:01 GMT
Another small update - Three days ago Pixi.fm messaged me back through Facebook, and I just noticed it today. I gave them my email and they're going to see if Beau will email me.
It is also worth mentioning that there's a cheat code you can enter for the game that "speeds your movement, eliminates time restrictions, and elimnates torch batteries expiration". The code is 5060002833643 which is apparently the Barcode for the Movie's DVD release.
Hello, I did not let me download all the files, I do not know how to run the game, could I do a little tutorial? Thanks I’ve been looking for the game for years
Post by TheCracksOverhead on Sept 9, 2021 13:38:37 GMT
There is a tutorial on the Archive.org page, but maybe I didn't word it very clearly.
On the right side of the page where it says "Download Options" click on ZIP.
After you've downloaded the zip, extract it with something like 7zip, Winrar, etc. You should get a folder with a few files, one of them being a DCR file.
Finally, all you need to do is open the Projector and then browse for the DCR file.
After that, 13 more dialog windows will pop up asking where some other files are, but they are not required for the game to run, so just keep clicking Cancel until they all go away.
There is a tutorial on the Archive.org page, but maybe I didn't word it very clearly.
On the right side of the page where it says "Download Options" click on ZIP.
After you've downloaded the zip, extract it with something like 7zip, Winrar, etc. You should get a folder with a few files, one of them being a DCR file.
Finally, all you need to do is open the Projector and then browse for the DCR file.
After that, 13 more dialog windows will pop up asking where some other files are, but they are not required for the game to run, so just keep clicking Cancel until they all go away.
The game will then start loading.
Hey, thanks for all your efforts to contact the game devs and bring the game back online ...I was wondering if this still works, i followed the tutorial from archive.org/details/creep-the-last-tube and downloaded Shockwave Projector, but when i try to run the DCR file, the program automatically crashes and then closes, so i guess it doesn't work (i downloaded all game files required)... Then I also tried to find the game on Bluemaxima's Flashpoint Project but no luck, the tag "Violence" under the Tag Filter Groups is nowhere to be found, and the game won't show on the search list either. Any clue if it's still possible to play the game somehow? thank you!