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@@ -9,24 +9,84 @@ crash. This was about the time when I started programming in C# in Unity, so
 there was barely anything playable but still a crapton of ideas. Anyways, heres
 a collection of material I was able to salvage:
 
-### Call of the Darkness
+## Call of the Darkness
+
+_Call of the Darkness_ was my first attempt at doing something in three
+dimensions in Unity3D. I played Frictional Games' Penumbra series at the time,
+so there was a lot of inspiration to make a horror game.
 
 <img src="/projects/pics/intermission_basement.webp">
 
-### Intermission
+I'd just finished Anti-Smoke Man and decided that the time is ripe to switch
+engines to something more professional. Due to this decision I was also forced
+to learn how to actually program. Because in Game Maker you could mostly click
+together your game using logic blocks.  In this project I tried to get by with
+using premade scripts and controllers, which didn't really work out that well.
+As far as I can remember, this was supposed to be a small demo in which you'd
+have to find your way out of some basement. There were supposed to be your
+typical scare effects. Upstairs was some warehouse with a small puzzle to open
+its main door. A _thingy_ was supposed to attack you, if you tried to leave
+then.
+
+You can probably imagine that cobbling this together from some premade scripts
+found on some forums didn't work that well (this was long before _Asset Stores_
+became a thing).
+
+## Intermission
+
+Still a horror-type game, _Intermission_ represents the point at which I
+learned a bit more about programming in Unity3D. The style is _heavily_
+inspired by the two Half-Life 2 maps
+[Insomnia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLwqXfpkgVY) and
+[Paranoia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr2fHNfR6IQ).
+
+<img src="/projects/pics/intermission.webp">
+
+There were still scare effects. And - since by now I could somewhat program
+stuff - it had interactive elements. There even were enemies. Because I
+couldn't model for shit, they simply were walking stacks of smoke particles
+making some HORRIBLE screaming sound.
 
 <img src="/projects/pics/intermission_menu.webp">
-<img src="/projects/pics/intermission.webp">
+
+Though the places were a bit too inconsistent. At first you were in some
+derelict cityscape, followed by a series of abstract nonsensical hallways. And
+then:
+
 <img src="/projects/pics/intermission_fields.webp">
+
+You were suddenly in this open grassy field. Looking back this effect might
+even have worked really well, with the claustrophobia inducing hallways
+suddenly giving way to an open space.
+
 <img src="/projects/pics/house_of_doom.webp">
 
-### F.A.S.T. 2
+The game was supposed to end in some building standing alone in that field.
+You had to find the basement key. But before you could open the basement's door
+something would jump out of it, ending the game.
+
+## F.A.S.T. 2
+
+And then came _FAST 2_. I've not yet put up _FAST 1_ on here, even though I
+still have that lying around actually.
+
+_FAST 2_ was a top-down shooter in which you controlled a hover glider or hover
+car or something. You blasted your way through enemies and did the usual
+keycard collecting to get to the end of levels. Unfortunately the only relic I
+found is this flythrough, which does not do the game justice, because the
+levels were never meant to be seen from this perspective:
 
 <video style="width:100%" controls>
     <source src="/projects/pics/fast2_silent.mp4" type="video/mp4">
 </video>
 
-### Cue
+## Cue
+
+Keeping in line with top down game (and screenshots that do not to them
+justice) there's _Cue_. Here I actually had human characters running about.
+Still just doing the usual though (that is: shooting stuff). The released game
+_Cybernator_ is basically what this game would have been, just slightly better
+:)
 
 <img src="/projects/pics/cue.webp">
 <img src="/projects/pics/cue2.webp">