Groovy Drewsday Written on December 1, 2009, by Zack.
It’s Drewsday! As in, Nancy Drew! As in the plucky girl detective who solves mysteries in her spare time! As in the reason I’m able to maintain a steady income! HOORAY NANCY!
As you probably already know, I’ve been employed at Her Interactive for the past couple of years, working as a 2-D artist on the Nancy Drew series of PC adventure games. In previous posts (found here, here, here and here), I’ve shared some of the game art I created for the first title I worked on, The Haunting of Castle Malloy. However, I haven’t posted any art from the games that have been released since Malloy, and if you can believe it there have been FOUR.
So, I’m starting a new segment here on the blog dedicated to showcasing what I’ve been doing for eight hours a day for two years. Every Tuesday, I’ll post a new piece of art from one of my old games. Should be a hoot!
And I should mention right off the bat that, if any readers have found this site looking for game info, THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD! Proceed at your own peril!
Today’s art is from the 20th Nancy Drew PC game called Ransom of the Seven Ships. But you had to be pretty smart to discover it – the image appeared on a special Easter egg that only the most resourceful and cheating players could find:
Captain Whiskers of the Spanish Armada, here to pilfer your booty and your heart! He actually the first of several behatted cats I’ve put into the games. I just can’t get enough of cats in novelty headwear. My own cat refuses to wear the bonnet I knitted him, and I suppose this is how I cope with my bottomless disappointment.
Okay! See you next week!
All the images in this post (except the header), © Copyright Her Interactive, Inc.
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So how does one find the Easter Egg?
There’s a secret route on the driving map that leads the player to a secluded area where the Easter egg can be found.
And if players look really hard, they may even find a wrapped piece of matzo, which will earn them a single dollar. That’s not actually true, but now that I’ve thought of it I’m going to lobby hard to get it into our next game.
Did Captain Whiskers ever execute in any heroic feats of valor?
Though displaying many traits one would expect from a seafaring hero – his own ship, crew, and an imposing hat – Captain Whiskers’ potential for heroism suffered greatly from the fact that he was a water-fearing creature on the high seas. He spent most of his time aboard in his cabin, under the bed, nervously twitching his eyes aft and starboard. And since keeping sand on the ship would add needless weight, the only destinations the fuzzy captain directed his ship towards were beaches where Whiskers would, in the words of his first mate, “poop his brains out.” To this day, beach-loving vacationers across the Caribbean continue to inadvertently discover the “buried treasure” of Captain Whiskers.