Nancy Drew Treasure in the Royal Tower Fan Project
A downloadable game for Windows
This is a fan tribute remake of the 2001 PC game Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower by HER Interactive.
The goal of this project was as a game development exercise in Unreal engine. Since the original game is pre-rendered point and click, I thought it'd be fun to try and recreate some of the environment to be exploreable in real-time 3D - the kind of thing I would have DIED for as a kid.
I worked on this on and off over the past couple years and kept adding features based on what I wanted to learn how to do in Unreal. Working on this project was a ton of fun and was kind of hard to stop, buuuut I had to at some point.
Features:
- Explore Wickford castle in real 3D, including the upstairs hallways, the main lobby, Nancy's room, and the fireplace room
- Watch a "cinematic" version of the game intro with the letter and photos. (And by cinematic I mean the camera moves)
- Pick up and examine all sides of items in the environment
- Zoom in with your magnifying glass!
- Open your suitcase, drawers, and doors. And pick up and read pamphlets and books
- Take inventory items and equip them when necessary. Like when "It's Locked!"
Since I'm new to the programming side of game dev, unfortunately I can't guarantee a completely bug-free experience. I'd recommend having a graphics card comparable to the Nvidia GTX 750 or better to not drop frames. But hey, at least it's free so even if you have an older computer it's worth a try!
I hope you enjoy the game, and you end up feeling just as nostalgic as I do!
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Install instructions
After you've download the file from Itch.io, locate the file in your file system and right click to unzip. Once you've unzipped the folder, go inside the folder and double click the exe file (the file with the game icon next to it).
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What a lovely little work of art! I feel so safe and cozy in Wickford Castle, and I love hearing Prof. Hotchkiss typing away at her keyboard. I have one big issue though: I don't know how to exit out of the game. 😅 The esc. button does nothing. What am I supposed to do?
There should be a Quit button if you press Tab
Do you plan on working on this recreation more? I would love to follow your dev log!
Think you'll make the rest of the castle, maybe other locations like the Royal Palladium theater?
oh wow. i feel like i'm dreaming coming across this. it looks heavenly. i cannot wait to play it!
This is so unbelievably incredible, I cannot express how utterly blown away I am by this. I couldn't stop squealing with excitement and awe while exploring. You did an AMAZING job with this, it's so impressive, and I can tell it was a labor of love. t would be so cool to see all the old games remastered like this, and I would pay out the wazoo to see it! Great job, thank you so much for sharing, this is just SO COOL!!!
I just want to say that I am absolutely mind-blown at how incredible this looks and runs. I would pay money for a full game just like this. Amazing work and I hope to see more in the future!
AHHHHHH CANNOT WAIT TO PLAY THIS, SCREENSHOTS LOOK BEAUTIFUL! Thank you so much <3
this is great! Any chance of uploading the unreal engine files? Could be a basis for a lot of other fan remakes of other games, if you’re interested.
This looks so so good, I even teared up a little. I loved playing ND as a child, revisiting it with your beautiful graphics brought up very sweet memories. Wish you all the best! And secretly hope HER picks you up :-)
this is absolutely gorgeous! thank you so much for sharing your talent with us.
This is too good, i wish you will make all of the halways and secret pasegways, it's hard to make something like this. I can only say good job!
This looks amazing! Great job! You've made my inner child immensely happy with this. HeR should hire you to lead the remaster of the other games!
Julia, I just wanted to say that this looks absolutely amazing and you have really outdone yourself in making this. I am so excited to be able to play this and see what you've created.
Julia this is absolutely incredible. My best friend and I grew up playing these games and to see them revived with modern visuals and gameplay is stunning, I hope you would still like to work on this because I would LOVE to see it as a full-fledged remaster. Amazing work!
This is incredible. If you have a tip jar or anything else setup, I would gladly give you something because you deserve so much for your clear passion and for giving me the most excitement I've had for Nancy Drew games in years.
Lovely work.
That is amazing work!
Julia , can we talk in private about your remaster?
Sure, shoot me an email at julia.holdnack@gmail.com!
is been two years :)
Hey did you ever send an email?
no , but judging from the game files , you made the game in Unreal engine . I am really curious how did you construct the 3d environments , did you used photogrammetry or did you model everything in a 3d software? ( oh I saw that you wrote in the description that is made in UE)
I modeled everything myself using Blender (except the knight armor, I found that on CGTrader). I used the original game screenshots as reference, but since they're old and sometimes not clear I had to take some creative liberties for a few things.
This is amazing!