LUT! games
Flash developer and blogger LUT! has a few unique point-and-click adventure games just begging for your attention. They're short, moderately difficult, and one oozes style while the other tries to scare the ActionScript out of you.
Darkness Episodes 1 and 2 - The Darkness games put you in the role of a girl who wakes one night to answer a knock at her front door. 
A black hand engulfs her and the next thing she knows she's back in her bed and doesn't remember a thing. Upon investigating she finds a few things are a little... different... in her home. No spoilers here, but the plot twists in several directions while taking the time to spook you with some chilling moments. Follow the title screen's advice and turn up the speakers to really get sucked in.
There's an interesting feature where the girl will get frightened and "PANIC!" will flash on the screen. Press the space bar as fast as you can to keep your cool. If you don't, it's Game Over. It really keeps your senses on alert.
The first episode of Darkness is played out entirely in first person while the second shifts to a third-person view. The puzzles in both installments are fairly straightforward, but part two offers a little more challenge.
Tomb of Doom - This room-escape point-and-click game really stands out because the characters and scenery are made entirely out of plasticine, the clay-like substance used to make Wallace and Gromit. 
You play a Gumby-esque character who falls into a mysterious tomb while taking a walk. Using the items found inside, you must fend off giant scorpions, unlock doors and investigate strange statues as you search for the exit. It's sort of like a light-hearted Indiana Jones adventure with a few quirky quests to keep you from getting too serious.
Solving the puzzles in Tomb of Doom isn't too difficult, but navigating through the maze of doors and nearly identical rooms can be confusing, even with the map. It's a short play, but it's great to see this rare form of animation used in a video game.
The games on the LUT! website are great diversions. The Darkness episodes are especially atmospheric and can easily swipe an hour of your time without you even realizing it. Play.
As a side note, the LUT! website has a few pop-up ads, many of which open when you leave the site. Be ready.
Thanks Bonman for sending these in!
I did Tomb of Doom the other day. If anyone needs help ask. Speaking of help, anyone get anywhere with Darkness 1?
Sweeet! I love claymation and was stoked when I first learned of Tomb of Doom. SO glad you reviewed these games, John, cheers! =)
How do you get the torch to work?
You need to go to the bath room look at the toilet and replace the roll...
Walkthrough, please?
Now posting walkthough for Darkness 1
Answer doorbell by walking downstairs.
When you wake back up in your room, start by picking up the tape off the desk.
Open dresser drawer and pick up flashlight.
Click drawer again to get gloves.
Leave the bedroom and go to the toilet. (down)
Pick up the towel.
Walk up to the mirror, and use the towel on it.
When you turn back around, there is a key where the soap use to be.
Turn to the toilet and put the toilet paper on the roll.
Click on the hand print, and then on the shower door.
Click on the hair in the drain.
After you are attcked by the woman, open the shower door again, and get the faucet.
Go back to the toilet, and use the gloves to get the shiny object out.
Leave the bathroom, and enter the master bedroom with the silver key.
Use the faucet on the cabinet under the TV, then put the tape in the VCR.
Pick up the gold key you can see under the bed in the video. Use it to open the drawer in the back left of the master bedroom. Get the matches.
Go back to the bedroom, and use the big kep to open the trunk. Get the candle.
Go to the hallway,use the matched to light the candle, and then walk downstairs.
I'll get to work on the next one after work. great site Jay!!
does anyone have a walk through i am stuck
i am on part two
Where are you stuck? Just saying it doesn't really help
part two... i'm stuck at the cork in the bottle. i have
matches, egg rock, candle, and scizzors
. what i do?
oops, forgot about
the fire extinguisher
ash, you don't have what you need to get the cork. To get it, you need something that will make it rise to the top...
Might be a good time to 'plug' one of my favorite adventure games of all time, The Netverhood. All clay-mation. If you haven't played it, by all means get it. Buy it (might be a little hard, even on ebay), crack it, hack it, steal it, just get the damn thing! I almost cried at the end!
what is kep?
I'm so lost...I'm on part 2...
this is what I've done so far
I've gotten
the egg stone, string, hook, fire extinguisher, key to clock face...
and I can't figure out what to do next... how on earth do I get into the store room?
Whew - scary.... the amount of pop-up advertising that hit my computer while playing Darkness 1 !!!
ooh.i had to quit the game (darkness 2) too scary to me,it's night here and i'm alone and didn't even knew what i could do..
Laura ...
You need one more thing....
Do you have --
the key to the exit?
If not --
it's in the Nurse's station -- click in the corner below the jars -- what item in your inventory hasn't worked at all (in both Darkness 1 & 2)
If so, then Storeroom spoiler --
open your inventory - what three things could make a fishing pole? Take the fishing pole through the exit door and into the stairwell. Go down a floor and viola! There are the keys to the storeroom
Yikes, I'm having a tough time finding the rock. Can somebody lend a hand? Thanks!
Amar0k --
Here's my favorite adventure game of all time -- Grim Fandango. It's not clay-mation but it's different. It's LucasArts homage to the Day of the Dead celebration and the movie Casablanca. All rolled up into one! Wonderful plotline, hilarious dialogue, and a supreme soundtrack. Recommended to all "point-and-clickers" out there!
I know i need to make it rise, but i haven't found anything more. I cant get the pop out of the machine, because i got no money, and i dont know where to get the money for. any suggestions. i've searched all over the building, and it became like a treasure hunt, dodging from the ghost who appeared like every 2 seconds.
ough MY GOD! i had the lights switched on and the sound blasting
both my dogs sat by the side of me and i was only 2minutes into the game
and i screamed like a posh girl scared o spiders!!!!
it was the hair and then BAM! i died coz i hid behind my hands!
ough and the dogs just wldnt stop barking coz i scared them lol they thought summat was hurting me bless em!!! awsome time to re-start i think I LOVE POINT AND CLICK GAMES!!!! smileXXX
How do you get the key to the exit??
im stuck!!!! im on the second one since i scared myself stupid on the 1st but still completed it
i have matches, candle, scissors, one time use fire ecstinguisher (yeh i cant spell), hook connected to a string and the rock egg where the hell do i find the thing to connect to the string and hook to make it a fishing line??
smileXXX
i have no idea how to find any sort of pole...maybe im not trying hard enough. incidentally, what is the purpose of my strange little egg?
michelle it is
go into the place where you can hide behind the white coats and down at the right hand side underneath the jars is a dark patch hit it with the torch 2wice u'll get the rock egg and then the key to the exit
anybody want to give me a walkthrough for tomb of doom?
So, why is it that when you come out of the bedroom you are standing in front of the bathroom? a little reworking would make the Darkness 1 game infinitely better!
great game, fun and logical, just 2 short
to find the key to the exit
break open the strange spot in the nurses station. a hit from you're flashlight will do it. check the hole twice.
to get some change for the coke machine,
first you need scissors from the operation theatre. use them to cut off a sliver of wood from the plant in ward b. the sliver is the same size as a coin. hmmmm....
i still cant find a pole. im thinking about the light tube in the darkened pharmacy, but im just not tall enough.
No idea what to do with the egg. The pole is
the light pole in the pharmacy.
Where is the key to the exit?
how do i get that light down though?
the exit key
is in the nurses station. near the corner there should be a dark spot on the wall. hit it with your flashlight. check it a few times to get the egg and then the key.
waahoowaa -
Grim Fandango was an unforgetable game. Probably the last great from (pre-LetsMakeAllOurGamesStarWarsThemed) LucasArts, wich gave us many great point-n-clicks, of wich my personal favourite (and the favourite of alot of other people too) is Day of the Tentacle! Funniest game ever! Though the Monkey Island series was also classic. And The Dig was absolutely amazing, though quite different from other LucasArts games as it was more sci-fi and less humour.
The old days...
to get the light down
Use your candle to look at the note on the bulletin board. After you are done reading the note and walk toward the door the light will fall and you can oick it up.
how do you get into the nurse's station!
i have in my inventory:
-flashlight
-matches
-candle
-scissors
-lighttube
-fire extinguisher
what do i do now
how do you get into the nurse's station!
i have in my inventory so far:
-flashlight
-matches
-candle
-scissors
-lighttube
-fire extinguisher
-ball of yarn
what do i do now!
how do i get the clock key!
the note says bed B06
i can't find it!
Walkthrough for Tomb of Doom?
yes!
i finished darkness 2!
walkthrough at
http://lazylaces.com/article.asp?p=1237
Argh. I had to give up on the Tomb of Doom the first time because it glitched when I went into the room with the gears and
the bars didn't shut, so when I came back from the scorpion room I just left without going through the scorpion squooshing scene. Then when I went BACK in, the bars shut but the scorpion never came out.
If you are scared easily, doooo not play darkness two, ones more not scary, still freaked ME out tho....
yea, go to the website that hannah suggested, scroll down comments until you get to a paticularily long comment, thats the walkthrough in its entirety. I hid behind the coatrack and the thing appeared then i wasnt quick enough next time and it screamed and i freaked out and my gatorade flew everywhere was i tried to wheel back in my broken wheely chair and tipped over and hit my head then got more freaked out and had to go sit in family room with my brother and watch his weird movie 4 half an hour... and adding to the freakish ness, it was 9:00 at night at my house. Ohhh my was I creeped out to my wits end... i couldnt sleep, lols, seriously. NEVER playing THAT again!!!
Tomb of Doom is like a spoof of all thos creepy room escapes and indiana Jones stuff. Love it! A bit easy though.
Hmm, and pointers as to how to get past the spider in Tomb of Doom? I've tried:
burning the web, but that just makes the spider come. Burning the spider doesn't seem to have any effect, neither does playing the flute to it
meme...
Have you met the scorpion yet? if so... try that?
Amar0k --
You're old school... I like that. You made me search for DOTT, but it won't run on my XP. (Heck - even Grim Fandango has issues in XP). I found a hack for DOTT on XP and I'll try it again tonight. Can't say I've played The Dig. I saw a few copies of it on eBay and I'll buy one per your recommendation.
Have you played Psychonauts? It's from the same program director who did Grim Fandango.
What am i missing in Tomb of Doom? I have to get the banana for the monkey statue, but i can't get passed the eye... A hint, please...
Walkthrough Tomb of Doom:
Pick up flute
Pick up stick
Use stick on fire
Use flaming stick on hole
Use flaming stick on water
Use stick on gear
When see scorpion come out of the room and pick up stick from gear
Pick up sting
Use stick on fire again
Use flaming stick on web, use sting to kill spider, burn the web
Go dark red triangle room and pull lever
Check your map, go to the 6th box at the bottom and go in the red triangle room
Pull lever and use flute to get snake
Go back to dark red triangle room and go to right door, use snake on the rock
From the dark red triangle room, go left left room and use rock
Go left room and take mirror
Check your map, go to the 7th box at the bottom and use mirror on eye to get banana
Go to the big lever yellow triangle room again and pull the lever
Go to monkey statue room and use banana
The Mirror
how annoying that ghost is!, is there gonna be a final part of that game? is there a 3rd part?
Darkness 2 scared the daylights out of me...but I couldn't give up until I finished. I live alone, so I couldn't do it there, I did it at work, under the safety of people and flourescent lighting. It's the only way I could bring myself to do it. But great game.
Oh man, The Dig was my first actual point-and-click experience. I was young when I played it, and it pulled me in. Definate 10/10.
Gah. I keep losing on Darkness 2 when a ghost-thing appears and I have the inventory open -- it doesn't respond to the space bars. Really annoying.
The Darkness games were GREAT! The six-thousand pop-ups were bogus.
an interesting method to pause, hide behind a curtain in one of the wards... it allowed me to eat my ramen in peace, well, as much peace as that hauntingly eerie music will allow, nice games
waahoowaa - Not sure if you'll check back here, but in case you do..
If you want to play any of the original Point n Click Lucas Arts games on XP, I highly recommend downloading a program called SCUMM VM.
Once you've got it, it'll load any old Lucas Arts games (and some non-Lucas Arts) that were built on the SCUMM system.. Games like Indiana Jones & The Fate Of Atlantis, DOTT, The Dig, Full Throttle (classic!), Loom (amazing too), etc..
Just do a search on Google for SCUMM VM, n you should find it quite easily. Also works on OS X for any Mac-owners who want to re-live these old games too :).
As for Grim Fandango, I managed to get it working on XP SP2 a while ago.. But I can't remember how to do it now for the life of me. Sorry! Try Google :).
J
OK can anyone tell me why I click forever on the Inventory word and can not get it to display so I can get my stuff? I can go no where if I can not access the towel and flashlight. Guess I will just try to reload.
Reminds me a bit of Amber. Anyone out there play that? It was one of the scariest games ever - like a Hitchcock film on the PC. It introduced my to the world of gaming and is still my favorite.
Alright, stubbornes figured it out. The reason I can not access the Inventory is because for some reason my cursor is off center. I must place my cursor, not on the item, but rather a bit below and off the button, then I can access inventory, scroll thru etc. Wierd but workable.
I don't know if anyone has said this yet, but darkness 2 has already been linked on this site somewhere, because I remember playing it a while ago, and I'd only have found it from this page. It might have been under a different name though, or within another halloween-type game... I remember I played it at about 1 in the morning and had to cut it short :P.
Im sorry, but I cant get through the pop- up ads...just insane. For me they start right away even with a blocker and dont stop. yuck
Fischer --
Thanks for the info! I'll try it out when I get back home (stuck in a hotel in Pittsburgh...)
I don't know what is scarier the darkness, the ghost, the sound effects, OR THE POPUPS!!!
This game author seems to like the "jump out and scare you with a screech" trick. An otherwise very clever game is marred by including cheap scares (for instance, the end of Tomb of Doom).
Other than that, the popups really annoy me (especially since one seemed to freeze IE for a few minutes) but these games were fun.
I am stucked on darkness 1. I found trunk key, master bedroom key, watched video and caught, found candle.. I think I need matches huh? I can't seem to find...
did you open the trunk in your bed room
i think thats where the matches are
yeah... sorry kids but i'm a little freaked out by the ghost and her bloody eyes...
omg when is darkness 3 coming out omg i need it to come out me and my friend love the darkness its easy lol ..... you said it would be out by the end of june its september love hehe... hurry up i need to play it ive been waiting for timeeeeee ... if you have anything to say to me then please do not HESITATE but please contact me.. x ashlie x
i have got the drink out the machine and have got down the stairs but there is rubble blocking my way and there is keys at the bottom of the stairs. how do i make a fishing rod to get the keys?
I just finished the second one, hopefully there will be a third episode because it said to be continued. I love games like this!!!
when is darkness 3 coming???
On tomb of doom what is the gear?? and where is it??
I can't figure out Darkness 2. I pull the lever in the begining then I get the site ad. Nothing else happens, I don't understand.
I was playing Darkness 2 late at night. Going through well, until I see the ghost. I was like "Let's see what she looks like!" Ten seconds later, I was screaming like bloody hell with my eyes closed going "HER EYES! THEY'RE BLEEDING! THEY'RE BLEEDING!!!!!" I ran out with my eyes closed bumping into probably everything and then I go to bed. I can still see those bleeding eyes. I'm glad that's all I saw. I walk back to the computer to see... a GAME OVER screen. I clicked off and played something else. The moral? Avoid the ghost on Darkness 2, ESPECIALLY at night.
Here is the walkthrough of Darkness episode 2
First click on the red dot on the left of your screen.
Then grap the scissors from the tool tray. Go to the corridor andturn left.
grab the fire ex. thingy. go left.
Go to the pharmacy, in the inventory grap the box of matches and then clik on the candle. Then click on the noticeboard, it ill help you.
Then on the top of your screen, click the lightube, it will fall, grap it and put it n the inventory. Go to wardA03 and grab the yarnball in the drawer,go to ward806 and cut the plant with scissors. Go to pharmacy again and click on the shelf of pills on the red pills section click the third one on yur right, it is a key. go and find the grandfatherclock and put the key in the hole(warning there will be a scream at that point) then go to the operation theater, then go to the door again. the ghost will come out, he will chase you, go to the nurse room in the operation theate and hide behind the coat rack. make sure o take the hook. thenwhe she leaves grap your torch and click on the bottom of the right. take the egg, then lclck again you will have a key. you will not need to use the egg but u will use it on darkness 3. Then go to the exit and use the key. usethe coin in the cola machine to have a cola. go to downstairs on your left and then. grap the hook and out it in the yarn ball then the lightube. take the keys and go upstairs, go to the left and go to pharmacy, use thefire exto spread fire on the ghost. then open the door next to shelf of pills, there will be a bottle, put the cola in the bottle and then take the cork. go to the lift and put the cork in the thingy where there is a missing one. press G,(wARNING AGAIN) then when it comes dark she will come into the screen again she will frighten you.
If u have any questions,feel free to contact me at gabriella_theuma@hotmail.com, bye
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