A downloadable game for Windows


"Between 1987 and 1994, the British channel Network7 broadcasted 112 episodes of the TV game show Maze Masters, an interactive adventure targeting younger audiences. Only some parts of the show were aired.

The different sections of this CD-ROM explore the format and the backstage of the show. The idea is to shed a new light on the strange events which have been revealed afterwards."

You can explore the disc by downloading one of the install file below (english or french).  

Only PC (for now)


The full Soundtrack of the CD-ROM is available on YouTube :




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F_O_T_M-win32-x64-ENG 4.3 GB
Version 1 Jul 19, 2024
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F_O_T_M-win32-x64-FRA 4.2 GB
Version 1 Jul 19, 2024

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J'ai adoré, j'y ai passé la soirée. Un vrai plaisir de découvrir ce lore et de fouiller de fond en comble. Quel(s) logiciel(s) as-tu utilisé pour créer ce jeu ? J'ai un projet de ce genre en tête, avec un gameplay orienté "point and click", mais je ne sais pas par où commencer.

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hate to ask but the images werent made using generative AI were they?

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they are screenshot of the show knightmares that were photoshopped. the creator showed how he did it during a stream.

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thats good.
didnt meant to doubt them. just concerned about games like this that use blurry images like this.

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I absolutely adore this game. The atmosphere of an old lost DVD menu with CD-ROM aesthetic, combined with the creepy elements of the show and the jester, was super interesting. Past that, the music was outstanding, and the art used and modified was also super cool. 

The fact that this game is free is insane. If this game ever gets expanded upon or gets a sequel, I’m buying that in a heartbeat! Gotta commend everyone who has worked on it.

P.S. Thank you for getting me into David Rowe’s artwork.

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Very impressive piece of software, genuinely kept me engaged throughout all of it. Scratched an Itch I didn't know I had.

Mild spoilers (i.e. what you can't find in the game so you don't spend hours looking for it)


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Practically all of the "hidden content" is behind stuff in the "extras" area, which will lead you to new content. All of the areas that cause the screen to glitch out are fully unaccessible, and unless this game has managed to hide internal files away from the amateur dataminer, do not exist within the game. So anyone who wants to know what the "symbol" object is is out of luck, sorry. 

Also, fun fact: practically every screen in this game is its own individual gif. The game works like Myst and it's contemporaries, with each "smaller window" being baked into the whole screen image itself.

Still, I heavily enjoyed this piece of software. Scratched an itch for early CD-Rom "games" that I didn't know I had, and while my desire to know EVERYTHING may have ended up fruitless (blame my own mentality, I understand the mystery via omission but my brain always craves more), I do hope we see more stuff like this soon.

Now tell me how the Super CD-ROM2 System ties into this, that potential red herring has completely captured my attention what does it MEAN

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A haunting horror web-crawler. Hypnospace Outlaw for analog horror ARG-delving folks. It's wonderful!

Below are the solutions to the 'Credits' secret and their corresponding locations in the program. I have nowhere else to post this, so please read below if you are stuck!


SPOILERS - Solutions to hidden sections below - SPOILERS






Credits Combination:

Row 3, Column 3

Row 2, Column 2

Row 3, Column 4

Row 5, Column 2

Row 6, Column 1







Locations:

Eye - More-> Archives-> Books-> ESP Book (Row 2, Column 3) -> Page 6 (Brain Book, Top Right)

Holes in a Row -> More -> Theories -> Shadow People -> Pg. 4 (The dot of the 'i' in 'Mysterious', Bottom Left)

Hashtag -> More -> Third Eye Pictures -> Movie Production -> Dark Hole -> Pg. 6 ('Blue' Eyeball in The Meat Man, Bottom Right)

Half Circle -> More -> Bonus -> David Rowe Art -> Pg. 13 (Well, Bottom Left)

Moon -> More -> Third Eye Pictures -> Origins & Precepts -> The Prague Years -> Pg. 14 (Bottom Left Corner of the Blue Square Text Box)

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I absolutely love this. I've been obsessed with this thing all month.

Can you please give me any sort of clue regarding the Jester Incident and the TV code? There has to be something there right? I don't want the direct answer, I just need a hint to point me in the right direction.

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Very cool concept.  However some of those red dot extras were crazy difficult to spot.  I was reduced to basically re-clicking through the entire game with the symbol drawn on a piece of clear plastic taped to my monitor in the right place!

Hey! Sorry to bother you but I'd love some help with the locations of the secret spots. I've managed to find the moon and eye secrets but am yet to find the "teeth" thing, the hashtag and the tiny cut off circle. Any clues about where exactly they are? Please save me from this madness!

From memory teeth was in the section about shadow people, hashtag in films, and tiny circle in art?

Yo, I absolutely can't find where the hashtag one is and I got all the other ones. I'm playing the English version and there doesn't seem to be a section called "films". So uhhhh, where is it? Please do say. :)

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The bit with all the stills from some horror movies.  It was like some window bars or something.

TYSM!

Loved reading through this! baffling amount of detail and images, the page designs in particular are so perfect ✨

Really frightening and cool!

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OH BOY TIME TO DUMP A HC I HAVE

Spoilers below, so beware!


Anomalies, as the name implies, are NOT part of the actual show. They weren't scripted to show up, but they appear anyway like cockroaches. They can cause physical harm to the contestants and the staff, but not all of them are harmful. In fact, some of them can be helpful. For example, one anomaly called "Mr. Pedestal" (the giant head taking up most of a room) flat out told the chosen adventurer the answer to a difficult puzzle.

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Any way to fullscreen the game (windows 11)? I tried Alt+Enter, F and F11 with no luck

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This is really fantastic! I'm having a blast with the lore you all have built around the Knightmare concept. I'm definitely stuck on the credits secret, even though I've found all five images. I've gone to the associated pages and can't find anything to do with the red dot...? Also, is there supposed to be a code for the Jester Incident, or is there nothing more to it? Thanks for this awesome creation!

Bizarre que je télécharge le CD en ENG ou FRA, le jeu est en anglais.

I’m a huge fan of Knightmare and I’m really interested to discover your haunted version :) But I’ve got to ask if there there any jumpscares in this game? I don’t do well with them :S

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Found this through the @ranarifsc post on Twitter.

Not too much to add here, excellent soundscape, impeccable atmosphere, with striking visuals that I was incredibly curious how you sourced / produced (I followed the link to davidrowe.net and got a cool look behind the curtain). If you're okay with disclosing it, does following the correct path through the credits do anything? I think I solved it but I couldn't find any differences in the rest of the disc after completing it.


Regardless, damn fine work. I heard there's a stream you made talking about making this? If that's true I'd like a link, hard for me to pinpoint it on the english-speaking web. Will definitely be on the look out for future projects from you.


Cheers for no AI images, must've been a mountain of work getting all these images and then altering them.

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Hello Doctor Dink !

Sorry for my English I just wanted to warmly thank you for your curiosity and your kind words !! We translated the game in english especially so that english speaking people could experience it so your post make me really happy !

once you find the 5 grey images in the credits, you have to find to which page of the site they refer to (based on the little shape you see, a moon, an eye... and the red dot shows you where you have to click once you find the corresponding page... and then it leads you to secret content :) If you find the 5 hidden red spots and see what it hides you have finished the game ! Hope that helps ;) !

SPOILER ALERT
Pour celleux que ça intéresse : j'entame fraichement un playthrough du jeu, à l'aide d'un mindmap collaboratif sur coggle.io ! Si vous voulez partager l'aventure en direct avec moi, écrivez moi et je jouerai avec plaisir avec vous !

Voici le mindmap !

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Hello Sugniluna ! juste un petit mot pour te remercier et un immense bravo pour la mindmap ! j'ai concu le jeu sur ce genre d'outil et laisse moi te dire a quel point le tien est impressionant. Deja elle est accurate et au dela de ça, c'est très touchant pour un créateur de voir des personnes qui ont l'air d'aimer suffisamment pour s'investir autant dans une recherche ! Et sache qu'il y a des choses cachées mais pas non plus un ARG qui dure mille ans ! tout est dans le jeu.. et sois sur(e) de bien lire les crédits !! Merci encore pour ton taf ça fait chaud au coeur ♥

Ok, un ARG à enquêter merci car l'esthétique est superbe et originale 

Merci a toi ! Alors c'est très ARG like mais saches que tout est dans le jeu (meme si les frontières avec le réel sont parfois poreuses !! enjoy !

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Le CD-ROM est très beau et riche en contenu, on y retrouve tous les univers visuels familiers de la chaîne, de nombreux petits clins d'oeil également (les noms des enfants!). Les ambiances suscitent le malaise et sont très efficaces, en particulier grâce à un sound design de très bonne qualité. 

La musique est également exceptionnelle.

Le travail visuel pour produire l'ensemble a indéniablement été massif, c'est impressionnant.

On se perd dans l'arborescence labyrinthique à la recherche de secrets et de portes dérobées.

Un petit bémol, il est difficile de savoir si on a fait le tour du programme ou s'il renferme encore d'autres secrets, en gros jusqu'à quel point il vaut la peine de creuser...

Il est possible que pas mal de personnes passent à côté des secrets les mieux cachés s'il y en a (au delà du puzzle des crédits)!

Un petit bug (?) à noter :

première ligne, quatrième colonne du menu principal, 

puis deuxième ligne, deuxième colonne,

et enfin première ligne, deuxième colonne.

en cliquant sur la flèche de droite jusqu'à la dernière position possible, le bouton help fait planter le jeu.


Merci en tout cas pour cette mise en pratique de cet univers visuel si particulier: c'était un régal.

Merci mille fois pour ce retour et pour le débug !!! Tu fais trop plaisir<3

L'ambiance est incroyable, j'aimerais tant m'y plonger de manière totale et sérieuse mais malheureusement la vie m'en empêche ce qui n'enlève cependant pas la qualité énorme du jeu

Merci beaucoup pour ton  message !!

Je télécharge de ce pas, après avoir lu ton annonce sur Bluesky. Hâte de tester, j'aime tes vidéos au-delà des mots (oui oui :P) !

Merci  pour ton soutien et ta curiosité ! J'espère que ça va te plaire :) !

Bravo et merci !! ^__^

Merci infiniment d'avoir joué !! Trop heureux si ça t'a plu !