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< Proto:A Hat in Time (Windows, Mac OS X)

This is a sub-page of Proto:A Hat in Time (Windows, Mac OS X).

This game is still under active development.
Be aware that any unused content you find may become used or removed in the future. Please only add things to the article that are unlikely to ever be used, or went unused for some time. If they do get used, please remove them from the page and specify in the edit summary!

The Beta build of A Hat in Time was distributed to Kickstarter/slacker backers from March 7, 2015 to September 13th, 2017. Similar to other pre-release builds, the Beta has BETA BUILD: FAR FROM FINISHED printed at the bottom of the screen while in-game.

  • 2Inaccessible Areas
    • 2.2Mafia Town
    • 2.3FlyingHouse
  • 4Unused Textures

Unused Cinematics

Several unused cinematics can be found using the console. There are four unused cinematics in Mafia Town (both normal and rain variants), named cine1, cine2, cine3, and cine4. There is also one unused cinematic in Mafia HQ titled rs. The description for this is 'Rhythm Segment' implying there would have been a rhythm game battle against one of the Mafia chefs. The cinematic doesn't do much though, and never ends.

Inaccessible Areas

Spaceship Hub

While much more complete than its Alpha counterpart, the Beta Spaceship Hub is still unfinished; all areas that can't be accessed normally through gameplay are very clearly a work in progress.

  • The domed slide room has seen virtually no changes since the Alpha, besides getting a different set of placeholder textures.
  • Behind the 30 timepiece door is a pod machine floating in an empty void, complete with steering wheel and colorful buttons. Also visible in this area is what appears to be an elevator mechanism beneath the Mafia Town hub room's oven.

Mafia Town

Mafia HQ

  • Mafia HQ has a secret underground poker room that's inaccessible in normal gameplay. In this same area is a second room with an inoperable door.

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Secret Island

  • Hidden on the same island as in the Alpha build is a tent with a blackboard inside of it, complete with the writing of a slightly miffed level designer. Within this same tent is a chest that contains a single measly green orb.
    • W.T.N is short for William T. Nicholls, Gears for Breakfast's art director and level designer.
  • An absurdly large collectible orb, floating on top of a coconut tree. It emits the same sparkling noise hourglasses make, and when collected adds one orb to your counter.
  • On the opposite side of the island is what appears to be a cinderblock..that on closer inspection, is a gravestone that uses a basic alphabet cipher to obfuscate the text. When translated, the headstone reads:
MacDash

HERE LIES MY DAD WHO LOVED ME WITH ALL OF HIS HEART AND KNEW I COULD ALWAYS BE A SUCCESS IN ALL THAT I DID

FlyingHouse

Mafia Town

  • A strange flying object found in the skybox of Mafia Town. The object is titled as 'flyinghouse'. The object instantly kills the player upon aproaching it.
  • The object shows up on the Day, Night, and both Modular versions of the Mafia Town map.

UE Viewer

  • The strange object in a model viewer.

Inaccessible Time Piece

A time piece, called 'beachrace' or 'Balloon Race in Mafia Town', is leftover from the Alpha build.

Unused Textures

Ice Statue Badge

An icon for an unimplemented Ice Statue badge.

Timmy Loading Screen

Loading screen art for TimmyColor path (itch) (treestudiosuniverse) mac os. , who was originally intended to be the second playable character in co-op and New Game+. Neither mode was available in the Beta, and Timmy's role in the final game was replaced by Bow Kid.

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Cocoa Meter

A meter that, going by its name, is meant to tell the player how much cocoa they have. Variants exist of this graphic that show the container ⅔ full, ⅓ full, and empty. Cocoa isn't a commodity that's possible to collect in the Beta, so this meter isn't ever seen, It was meant to be used in the cut chapter Sand 'n Sails.

Return to the Penguin

An unused text graphic, titled Moon_hunt_return.tga.

Yo!

A leftover from the 2013 prototype, used by a rapping Mafia member in the prototype version of Mafia Town. The rapper, his stage, and his audience were all removed in the Alpha version of Mafia Town onwards, leaving this texture unused.

Moon Tablet

An inventory icon of a mysterious moon tablet. This is most likely an unused key item as it is nowhere seen in the Beta build.

Revisional Differences

On the Beta's release, Act 5 of Mafia Town was titled 'The Impossible Race?'. After Gears for Breakfast repeatedly received inquiries asking whether or not the various ways of cheating the race were intentional, the act's title was changed to 'Cheating the Race'.

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The Path
Developer(s)Tale of Tales
Publisher(s)Tale of Tales
TransGaming (Mac OS X)[1]
TopWare
1C Company[2]
Zoo Corporation[3]
Artist(s)Auriea Harvey
Michaël Samyn
Laura Raines Smith
Composer(s)Jarboe
Kris Force (Amber Asylum)[4]
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X[1]
ReleaseMarch 18, 2009
May 7, 2009 (Mac OS X)[1]
Autumn 2009 (Polish)
December 11, 2009 (Russian)[5]
July 7, 2010 (Japanese)[6]
Genre(s)Psychological horror, art
Mode(s)Single-player

The Path is a psychological horrorart game[7] developed by Tale of Tales originally released for the Microsoft Windowsoperating system on March 18, 2009 in English and Dutch, and later ported to Mac OS X by TransGaming Technologies.

It is inspired by several versions of the fairy taleLittle Red Riding Hood, and by folklore tropes and conventions in general, but set in contemporary times. The player can choose to control one of six different sisters, who are sent one-by-one on errands by their mother to see their sick grandmother. The player can choose whether to stay on the path or to wander, where wolves are lying in wait.[8]

Gameplay[edit]

A screenshot of the character Rose on the titular path, surrounded by the forest; the Girl in White can be seen in the distance

According to the developer, the game is not meant to be played in the traditional sense, in that there is no winning strategy. In fact, much of the gameplay requires the player to choose the losing path for the sisters to run into encounters which they (and the player) are meant to experience. Even the story narratives are not typical for a game, as explained by the developer, 'We are not story-tellers in the traditional sense of the word. In the sense that we know a story and we want to share it with you. Our work is more about exploring the narrative potential of a situation. We create only the situation. And the actual story emerges from playing, partially in the game, partially in the player’s mind.'[9]

Plot[edit]

The game begins in an apartment. The player is shown six sisters to choose from and is given no information about them other than a name. When the player selects a girl, the journey begins.

The player is given control of the girl, and is instructed: 'Go to Grandmother's house and stay on the path.'

As the player explores, they find various items scattered around. For a girl to pick up or examine an object, the player needs to either click on the interaction button or move her close enough for a superimposed image of the object to appear on the screen, then let go of the controls. The character will interact and an image will appear on the screen, indicating what has been unlocked; every item a girl encounters in the forest shows in some shape or form in Grandmother's house, and some objects open up whole new rooms. Small text will also appear, a thought from the current character. Some items can only be picked up once and do not appear in subsequent runs. However, each character will say something different about an object, so the player has the option to access a 'basket' to see what they have collected.

The Wolf is the antagonist in the game and takes on a different form for each girl. The forms represent tribulations that are associated with the stages of childhood and adolescence. It is not required to find the Wolf. In this game, there are no requirements but the ending at Grandmother's house does change dramatically after the wolf encounter. The girl encounters the Wolf, there is a brief cut scene, and the screen goes black. Afterward, the girl is lying on the path in front of Grandmother's house.

When the player enters Grandmother's house, the style of gameplay changes. It is now in first person, and the character moves forward along a pre-determined path. If the player got there without interacting with the Wolf, they arrive safely, cozy up next to Grandmother and are sent back to the apartment. The girl the player guided will still be there, and can be played again. If the player did go to the Wolf, then everything in the house is darker, and if the player remains still for too long, darkness clouds the screen, and something growls. Depending on the girl, doors are scratched, or furniture tipped over and broken, or strange black threads are draped across everything. Instead of ending with Grandmother, the music crescendos as the player enters a final surreal room before falling down, and things black out again. Images flash on the screen, featuring the girl being attacked by her Wolf, before the player is relocated back in the apartment. The girl played is not there, and will remain absent.

When all of the girls have encountered their wolves, a girl in a white dress, who could be previously encountered by the sisters, becomes playable and visits Grandmother's house. The girl will then travel through the house, now a combination of all of the end rooms of the previous girls ending with the no-wolf room. Upon reaching the grandmother, the girl appears in the apartment covered in blood, but alive. The sisters all return through the door and the game starts over.

Development[edit]

The Path was announced on the Tale of Tales Game Design forum on March 16, 2006 under the working title 144,[10] on the pattern of their first-started, on-hiatus Tale of Tales 8 (chosen for the universal, language-independent nature of Arabic numerals).[11] This number originally referred to the six 24-hour periods of the six days in which the game was set,[12] but in the released version refers to the 144 coin flowers.

Release[edit]

https://besttload685.weebly.com/duck-life-adventure-mac-os.html. The Path was released on March 19, 2009.[13] It became available for Mac on May 7, 2009.[14]

Reception[edit]

Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
Metacritic79/100[15]
Review scores
PublicationScore
GameSpot8/10[16]
IGN7.7/10[17]
VideoGamer.com10/10[18]

Iain McCafferty of VideoGamer.com called The Path 'a hugely significant work in terms of what a video game can be beyond the realms of throwaway entertainment' and 'potentially a seminal moment in video games.' He claimed that 'It will be years before a game made by the big budget software houses like Ubisoft or EA is brave enough to attempt anything remotely similar, but The Path shows promising signs that gaming is starting to grow up.'[19]

Heather Chaplin of Filmmaker Magazine pointed out how uniquely feminine The Path is: 'For me, The Path is about what a remarkably fine line it is that separates childhood from adulthood, innocence from cynicism, and how utterly not black-and-white most things in life are.'[20]

Tim Martin of The Daily Telegraph cited The Path as a recent example of a 'vigorous experimentation with techniques of narrative.' He likened it to 'an Angela Carter novel, as siphoned through The Sims.'[21]

Justin McElroy of Engadget commented on gameplay mechanics: 'You get one instruction in the game and you have to disregard it. That's the kind of experience we're talking about here. Once you leave the path you'll find innumerable creepy yet beautifully rendered experiences to take part in, but you're never really given any guidance as what the point or object of all of it is. Basically, it's gameplay in the abstract.' [22] Mike Gust of Tap Repeatedly called The Path 'a sort of anti-game', 'a game turned inside out in service to something deeply personal, human and disturbing'.[23]

John Walker of RockPaperShotGun remarked 'I kind of don’t like the game' but noted that this 'is not a criticism. If anything, it’s the highest compliment I could pay it. While there’s spooky woods, abandoned playgrounds, creepy dolls, and many other familiar themes of horror, these offer no scares. For me, the horror comes from what appears to be the most abhorrently pessimistic presentation of adolescence.'[24]

Steven Poole of Edge opined that the game is 'a supremely boring collection of FMVs with pretensions to interactivity that very quickly wears out its joke about control and becomes a tedious slab of nihilistic whimsy,' yet noting that the game features a 'lugubrious, Lynchian surrealism' and that 'in its ornery and precious way, The Path is a triumph of atmosphere, coming much closer than the cruder shocks of games such as Silent Hill or BioShock to a dramatization of what Ernst Jentsch and Freud analyzed as the 'uncanny' in literature.'[25]

Awards[edit]

An in-progress, alpha-stage version of The Path was nominated for Excellence in Visual Arts after being exhibited at the Independent Games Festival in 2008.[26] The game also has been honored with two awards at Bilbao, Spain's hóPLAY International Video Game Festival. The game won Best Sound and Best Design.[27]

References[edit]

  1. ^ abcHarvey, Auriea (May 7, 2009). 'The Path for Mac is NOW available!'. The Path development blog. Tale of Tales. Retrieved September 24, 2011.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  2. ^Samyn, Michaël (2009-03-12). 'The Path to Russia'. Tale of Tales. Retrieved 2009-03-26.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  3. ^Samyn, Michaël (2009-06-24). 'Interview in Japanese'. Tale of Tales. Retrieved 2009-06-24.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  4. ^'The Path user manual'. pp. 4, 10, 15. Retrieved 2009-03-26.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  5. ^'Official Russian Web page'.
  6. ^http://gamezone.zoo.co.jp/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=727
  7. ^Leigh Alexander. 'The Path For Art Games'. Kotaku.
  8. ^'The Path – a short horror game by Tale of Tales'. Tale of Tales. Retrieved 26 March 2009.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  9. ^Newheiser, Mark (7 April 2009). 'Michaël Samyn & Auriea Harvey interview'. Adventure Classic Gaming. Retrieved 2009-04-10.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  10. ^Samyn, Michaël (16 March 2006). '144 introduction'. Tale of Tales Game Design Forum. Retrieved 26 March 2009.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  11. ^Tale of Tales * 8
  12. ^Tale of Tales Game Design Forum ~ View topic - 144?
  13. ^Harvey, Auriea. 'The Path is available NOW!'. tale-of-tales.com. Retrieved 20 February 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  14. ^Harvey, Auriea. 'The Path for Mac is NOW available!'. tale-of-tales.com. Retrieved 20 February 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  15. ^http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-path
  16. ^VanOrd, Kevin (13 August 2009). 'The Path Review'. GameSpot. Retrieved 28 June 2010.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  17. ^Onyett, Charles (24 March 2009). 'The Path Review'. IGN. Retrieved 25 March 2009.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  18. ^McCafferty, Iain (23 March 2009). 'The Path Review for PC'. VideoGamer.com. Pro-G Media. Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2009.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  19. ^Iain McCafferty, 'The Path ReviewArchived 2012-03-31 at WebCite,' VideoGamer, 23 March 2009.
  20. ^Heather Chaplin, 'Heather Chaplin gets fully immersed into The Path.Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine,' Filmmaker Magazine, Summer 2010.
  21. ^Tim Martin (8 May 2009). 'Endpaper: Fiction Reaches a New Level'. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 22 July 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  22. ^Justin McElroy (19 March 2009). 'This is not a review for The Path'. Engadget. Retrieved 22 July 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  23. ^Mike Gust (19 May 2009). 'Review: The Path'. Tap Repeatedly. Retrieved 22 July 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  24. ^John Walker (11 March 2009). 'What Cruel Teeth You've Got: The Path Impressions'. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 22 July 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  25. ^Steven Poole (20 August 2009). 'Into the Woods'. Trigger Happy. Archived from the original on 5 July 2010.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  26. ^'2008 Independent Games Festival Winners'. The 11th Annual Independent Games Festival. Think Services. 2008. Archived from the original on 3 March 2009. Retrieved 29 March 2009.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  27. ^'I Certamen Internacional de videojuegos hóPlay'. Alhondiga Bilbao. 2010.Cite journal requires journal= (help)

External links[edit]

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