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Dark Fall II: Lights Out, the Glossary

Dark Fall II: Lights Out is a 2004 first-person psychological horror/adventure game developed by British studio XXv Productions and published by The Adventure Company for Microsoft Windows.^[1]

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A Ghost Story for Christmas

A Ghost Story for Christmas is a British supernatural anthology television series created by Lawrence Gordon Clark.

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A Warning to the Curious

"A Warning to the Curious" is a ghost story by British writer M. R. James, included in his book A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories first published in 1925.

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Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story, driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving.

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Adventure Gamers

Adventure Gamers is a computer game website created by Marek Bronstring in March 1999 dedicated to the genre of adventure games.

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Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.

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Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle

Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle is a horror adventure game developed by Shadow Tor Studios. Dark Fall II: Lights Out and Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle are Darkling Room games and point-and-click adventure games.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Cartography

Cartography (from χάρτης chartēs, 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and γράφειν graphein, 'write') is the study and practice of making and using maps.

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Coast

A coastalso called the coastline, shoreline, or seashoreis the land next to the sea or the line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.

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Comet

A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing.

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Computer Games Magazine

Computer Games Magazine was a monthly computer and console gaming print magazine, founded in October 1988 as the United Kingdom publication Games International.

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Computer Gaming World

Computer Gaming World (CGW) was an American computer game magazine published between 1981 and 2006.

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Computer terminal

A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that can be used for entering data into, and transcribing data from, a computer or a computing system.

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Cornish Islands

The Cornish Islands are two small, snowcapped islands with a rock between them, lying south of Liard Island in Hanusse Bay, Graham Land.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Cursor (user interface)

In human–computer interaction, a cursor is an indicator used to show the current position on a computer monitor or other display device that will respond to input.

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Dark Fall

Dark Fall is a 2002 first-person psychological horror/adventure game developed and independently published for Microsoft Windows by Jonathan Boakes, under the XXv Productions label. Dark Fall II: Lights Out and Dark Fall are Darkling Room games, first-person adventure games, Iceberg Interactive games, point-and-click adventure games, psychological horror games and the Adventure Company games.

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Dark Fall: Lost Souls

Dark Fall: Lost Souls is a 2009 first-person psychological horror/adventure game developed by British studio Darkling Room and published by Iceberg Interactive for Microsoft Windows. Dark Fall II: Lights Out and Dark Fall: Lost Souls are dark Fall, Darkling Room games, first-person adventure games, Iceberg Interactive games, point-and-click adventure games and psychological horror games.

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Dark matter

In astronomy, dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that appears not to interact with light or the electromagnetic field.

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Deep space exploration

Deep-space exploration is the branch of astronomy, astronautics, and space technology that is involved with exploring the distant regions of outer space.

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Demon

A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity.

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Devil

A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions.

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Dialogue tree

A dialogue tree, or conversation tree, is a gameplay mechanic that is used throughout many adventure games (including action-adventure games) and role-playing video games.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.

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Elevator

An elevator (North American English) or lift (British English) is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels.

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First-person (video games)

In video games, first-person (also spelled first person) is any graphical perspective rendered from the viewpoint of the player character, or from the inside of a device or vehicle controlled by the player character.

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Flannan Isle

"Flannan Isle" is an English language poem by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, first published in 1912.

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Flannan Isles Lighthouse

Flannan Isles Lighthouse is a lighthouse near the highest point on Eilean Mòr, one of the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland.

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Fourth Doctor

The Fourth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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Gameplay

Gameplay is the specific way in which players interact with a game, and in particular with video games.

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GameSpot

GameSpot is an American video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games.

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GameSpy

GameSpy was an American provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware for video games founded in 1999 by Mark Surfas.

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Ghost hunting

Ghost hunting is the process of investigating locations that are purportedly haunted by ghosts.

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Ghost story

A ghost story is any piece of fiction, or drama, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters' belief in them.

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Haunted house

A haunted house, spook house or ghost house in ghostlore is a house or other building often perceived as being inhabited by disembodied spirits of the deceased who may have been former residents or were otherwise connected with the property.

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Head-up display

A head-up display, or heads-up display, also known as a HUD or head-up guidance system (HGS), is any transparent display that presents data without requiring users to look away from their usual viewpoints.

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Helen Cresswell

Helen Cresswell (11 July 1934 – 26 September 2005) was an English television scriptwriter and author of more than 100 children's books, best known for comedy and supernatural fiction.

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Horror of Fang Rock

Horror of Fang Rock is the first serial of the 15th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 3 to 24 September 1977. Dark Fall II: Lights Out and Horror of Fang Rock are Works set in lighthouses.

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Iceberg Interactive

Iceberg Interactive is a privately held video game publisher based in Haarlem, Netherlands.

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In Memoriam (video game)

In Memoriam (released as Missing: Since January in the US) is an adventure video game for Windows and Mac OS developed by French studio Lexis Numerique. Dark Fall II: Lights Out and in Memoriam (video game) are the Adventure Company games.

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John Carpenter

John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor.

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Jonathan Boakes

Jonathan Boakes (born 7 November 1973, in Kent, England) is an English game designer.

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Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.

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Lighthouse keeper

A lighthouse keeper or lightkeeper is a person responsible for tending and caring for a lighthouse, particularly the light and lens in the days when oil lamps and clockwork mechanisms were used.

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M. R. James

Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English medievalist scholar and author who served as provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936) as well as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–1915).

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Millisecond

A millisecond (from milli- and second; symbol: ms) is a unit of time in the International System of Units equal to one thousandth (0.001 or 10−3 or 1/1000) of a second or 1000 microseconds.

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MobyGames

MobyGames is a commercial website that catalogs information on video games and the people and companies behind them via crowdsourcing.

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Moondial

Moondials are time pieces similar to sundials.

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Moondial (TV serial)

Moondial is a British television six-part serial made for children by the BBC and transmitted in 1988, with a repeat in 1990.

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Myst IV: Revelation

Myst IV: Revelation is a 2004 adventure video game, the fourth installment in the Myst series, developed and published by Ubisoft. Dark Fall II: Lights Out and Myst IV: Revelation are 2004 video games and first-person adventure games.

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Outer space

Outer space (or simply space) is the expanse that exists beyond Earth's atmosphere and between celestial bodies.

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Past life regression

Past life regression (PLR), Past life therapy (PLT), regression or memory regression is a method that uses hypnosis to recover what practitioners believe are memories of past lives or incarnations.

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PC Gamer

PC Gamer is a magazine and website founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc.

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Polperro

Polperro (Porthpyra, meaning Pyra's cove) is a large village, civil parish, and fishing harbour within the Polperro Heritage Coastline in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Poser (software)

Poser (and Poser Pro) is a figure posing and rendering 3D computer graphics program distributed by Bondware.

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Pre-rendering

Pre-rendering is the process in which video footage is not rendered in real-time by the hardware that is outputting or playing back the video.

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Psychological horror

Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror and psychological fiction with a particular focus on mental, emotional, and psychological states to frighten, disturb, or unsettle its audience. Dark Fall II: Lights Out and psychological horror are psychological horror games.

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Puzzle video game

Puzzle video games make up a broad genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving.

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Reincarnation

Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.

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Rhythm

Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".

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Sapphire & Steel

Sapphire & Steel is a British television supernatural sci-fi/fantasy series starring Joanna Lumley as Sapphire and David McCallum as Steel.

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Saved game

A saved game (also called a game save, savegame, savefile, save point, or simply save) is a piece of digitally stored information about the progress of a player in a video game.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Screensaver

A screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the display screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer has been idle for a designated time.

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Single-player video game

A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session.

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Smith Micro Software

Smith Micro Software, Inc., founded in 1982 by William W. Smith, Jr., is a developer and marketer of both enterprise and consumer-level software and services.

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Sound design

Sound design is the art and practice of creating soundtracks for a variety of needs.

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Sound effect

A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media.

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Sound Forge

Sound Forge (formerly known as Sonic Foundry Sound Forge, and later as Sony Sound Forge) is a digital audio editing suite by Magix Software GmbH, which is aimed at the professional and semi-professional markets.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound.

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Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, lit) was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat without previous naval experience appointed by Philip II of Spain.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Fall_II:_Lights_Out

Also known as Dark Fall 2, Dark Fall 2: Lights Out, Dark Fall: Lights Out, Darkfall 2: Lights Out.

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See also

Dark Fall

Darkling Room games

Iceberg Interactive games

Video games set in Cornwall

Works set in lighthouses

References