The Black Mirror for Windows (2003)
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The death of his grandfather, William, brings Samuel Gordon back to Black Mirror, the family’s ancestral home. Although William was considered a kook and his death most likely a suicide, Samuel is investigating the matter. Samuel is convinced that the death was no accident and that the mystery’s answer lies in the research William conducted, sequestered in the castle’s tower. But will uncovering ancient family secrets bring new light to the matter or shroud the Gordon family in doom?
The Black Mirror is a third-person, point-and-click adventure game set largely on the sprawling grounds of Black Mirror Manor including an asylum, the church and its grounds, and the town of Willow Creek. The game begins immediately after William’s funeral and Samuel is reintroduced to his estranged family and meets the household staff. An uncle who hides himself away in his study, an ill-tempered gardener, and a family doctor who hints that he knows something are just some of the cast members Samuel will deal with. The Black Mirror contains 150 locations and five hours of spoken dialogue.
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Alternate Titles
- «Черное Зеркало» — Russian spelling
- «The Black Mirror: the past is a diverted mirror of your soul» — UK/B/NL Tag-lined title
- «The Black Mirror: Lo Specchio Riflette Le Colpe Oscure Del Passato» — Italian tag-lined title
- «The Black Mirror: el pasado es el oscuro espejo de tu alma» — Spanish tag-lined title
- «Posel Smrti» — Czech title
- «Messenger of Death» — Working title
- «Black Mirror: Der dunkle Spiegel der Seele» — German title
Part of the Following Groups
- Black Mirror series
- Covermount: Level (Romania)
- Genre: Sliding block / tile puzzle
- Setting: Church / Monastery
- Software Pyramide releases
- Theme: Mental facility / Asylum
User Reviews
Critic Reviews
| neXGam | 2004 | 9. 3 out of 10 |
93 |
| Adventure Corner | Apr 21, 2004 | 91 out of 100 | 91 |
| Gamezone (Germany) | Apr 14, 2004 | 8.4 out of 10 | 84 |
| PC Action (Germany) | May 07, 2004 | 83 out of 100 | 83 |
| Gameplay (Benelux) | Nov 30, 2003 | 71 out of 100 | 71 |
| Aventura y Cía | Jul 02, 2004 | 60 | |
| Factornews | Nov 05, 2003 | 6 out of 10 | 60 |
| DreamStation.cc | Mar 01, 2004 | 5.5 out of 10 | 55 |
| Stratos Group | Dec 11, 2003 | 2.5 out of 5 | 50 |
| Game Informer Magazine | Jan, 2004 | 4. 5 out of 10 |
45 |
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Trivia
German localization
The voice of the main character Samuel Gordon is the German voice of Johnny Depp. This is interesting because Gordon looks similar to Depp.
Polish localization
For its release in Poland, the game’s subtitles were translated to Polish. However, nearly each sentence contains mistakes such as typos, repetitions (sometimes the same sentence is repeated twice in a row), omissions and
even spelling errors.
Awards
- 4Players
- 2004 – Best Adventure Game of the Year
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Related Web Sites
- Black Mirror: Der Dunkle Spiegel der Seele (Official game homepage by dtp (German))
- Black Mirror Hint File (Find answers to the solutions step by step in this UHS Hile File)
- Dusty’s Walkthrough (Step-by-step solution)
- Low-Spoiler Guide to The Black Mirror (contains hints and tips, Easter eggs and a walkthrough for the game)
- Official Web Site (In English)
- The Black Mirror (French Home Page)
- The Black Mirror — FAQs & Guides (Various files posted by members of GameFaqs.
com) - The Black Mirror review @ The Computer Show (by Al Giovetti)
- Walkthrough by MaGtRo (Another complete solve for Black Mirror)
- Zarf’s Non-Review (A review of The Black Mirror by Andrew Plotkin, which due to his frustrations with the game is simply a list of the notes he took and explanations of them, essentially forming a categorical tirade, thus it is referred to as a non-review by its author (July, 2004).)
dusoft (55) added The Black Mirror (Windows) on Jun 11, 2003
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Five Black Mirror technologies that have already arrived in our world
January 26, 2018, 13:58
The Producers Guild of America has named the fourth season of Black Mirror as the best mini-series of last year. The social dystopia, released on New Year’s Eve, frightens viewers with stories about the world of the future, in which people have become completely dependent on technology and gadgets.
TASS has selected several highlights from the entire series (the premiere of the first season took place back in 2011), representing innovations that already exist, are developing and will soon come to our lives everywhere. nine0003
Third season. First episode. «Dive»
Lacy, an office prude, is trying to earn popularity in a society where a person’s entire life is determined by a rating based on the assessments of the people around you (similar to likes in social networks).
People with a high rating are entitled to benefits that are not available to others. Due to a low rating, you may not be allowed into a restaurant, you cannot even rent a decent apartment. The plot twists when Lacey loses a hundredth of her rating and because of this she does not get on a plane. But she really needs to fly to the wedding of her school friend — VIP guests are invited there, who can raise Lacy’s rating with their likes. nine0003
Shot from the TV series «Black Mirror», episode «The Dive»
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What do you already have? China is already testing a scoring «social credit system» in which each resident of the country will have a personal «trustworthiness rating». This is a state program, it is going to be fully implemented in 2020.
According to the plan, each resident of the country will be assigned a certain number of points. For a good credit history, the absence of problems with the law and participation in charity, additional points will be awarded. For misconduct, for example, delay in paying utility bills, loans, and even for ticketless travel in public transport, points will be deducted. nine0003
A personal «trustworthiness rating» will affect almost everything from getting a job to the price of goods.
The system provides for sanctions. A person with low scores will not be able to work in government agencies, they may be denied a social package, they will be especially carefully examined at customs.
It is assumed that big business will also have access to databases with ratings of citizens. The owner of the hotel will have the legal right to refuse to check in to an unreliable client.
So far, the system has been launched in test mode in several cities in China. nine0003
Fourth season. Second series. «Archangel»
A single mother loses her three-year-old daughter Sarah on a walk. The baby who ran after the cat is found in a couple of hours, but the woman is so frightened that she decides to use the services of a company testing an advanced parental control system.
A frame from the series «Archangel»
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A chip implant is implanted into Sarah’s brain, and now her mother can see on her tablet where her daughter is, her pulse, blood biochemistry, she can look at the world through her eyes. Moreover, she can set a filter for unwanted information — the one that, in her opinion, provokes stressful emotions. Instead of a barking dog, a street fight, a crying man, or an open wound, overprotective Sarah sees a blur.
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Girl grows up, goes to school, becomes a teenager. Classmates consider her strange and call her «chip». Sometimes they tell Sara what the world looks like behind the filter.
What do you already have? The market for parental control systems is developing very actively. It all started with the simplest gadgets — bracelets with geolocation.
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More complicated gadgets are bracelets, smart watches, pendants that not only show the location, but also record medical indicators: the number of steps, calories burned, pulse. These same gadgets allow you to call your parents, turn on the speakerphone or the camera and let them hear and see what is happening around.
A couple of years ago, in one of the Moscow kindergartens, preschoolers began to walk in large numbers with «smart watches» that allowed their parents to connect at any time and listen to whether teachers and other children offend the child.
At first, the kindergarten staff were surprised and thoughtful, and then they banned the use of these gadgets and then assured that the kids became more anxious. nine0003
A visual filter for unwanted information is, of course, a technology that does not yet exist. But parents have more and more control every day. For example, parents of Moscow schoolchildren have the opportunity to limit their children’s purchases using the Moskvenok electronic card. Children use them to go to schools and pay at canteens. Parents can use special settings to make sure that the card cannot be used to pay for, for example, soda, ham sandwiches or chocolates. More than 21,000 parents used this feature last year. nine0003
Second season. First episode. «I’ll be right back»
A young woman, Martha, is having a hard time with the recent death of her husband Ash. She decides to use an online service that offers to «revive» her beloved spouse in the form of an advanced chatbot with individual manners and habits.
Shot from the series «Black Mirror», episode «I’ll be right back»
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Each interlocutor bot absorbs all available information about a person from his social networks. He adopts and accurately copies the manner of communication, favorite words and expressions. nine0003
Bot-Ash evolves. Martha starts talking to him on the phone. Soon, the service offers her to buy an organic replica of Ash. This is a robot that is able to learn and lead a normal human lifestyle. He is also devoid of the bad habits of an imperfect person. So Martha returns her beloved husband, but soon regrets it.
What do you already have? A South Korean startup created the With me app, where you can take a selfie with a deceased friend or relative. True, only on the condition that people «scanned» during their lifetime on a 3D scanner and thus left behind digital clones. Such avatar clones can easily and indefinitely live in the application.
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Leaving behind a «digital clone» is easy enough. There are dozens of startups that create applications, simple and advanced 3D scanners that can «digitize» you (even in color, with facial expressions, your individual manner of gesticulating and moving).
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However, there is an opinion that the future is not with digital clones-interlocutors, but with virtual friends, which you can already make in the Replika application today. That is, you do not copy a friend, but make a new friend (as many new friends as you like). Also, there are already startups in the world that produce personal interlocutor robots. Recently, a South Korean engineer introduced a drinking buddy robot, which, however, does not talk, but can artistically raise a glass and «turn pink» from «drinking». nine0003
The creation of an organic copy of a person, essentially cloning, is still prohibited by law in all countries of the world where technology already allows such experiments to be carried out.
Third season. Second series. «Gambling test»
American tourist Cooper, who arrived in London, loses money and decides to get money for a return ticket by finding a part-time job through a popular application. Cooper chooses an invitation to take part in a test of a new computer horror game with augmented reality. nine0003
The hero puts on special goggles and finds himself in a creepy house full of monsters. Moreover, these monsters are not typical freaks from pop toys, but his individual ones — familiar and frightening people from the past. At some point, augmented reality becomes so real that Cooper begins to feel pain. He can’t get out of this game alive.
What do you already have? Virtual and augmented reality glasses and applications are in demand on the market. They are used in the field of entertainment (for example, games), real estate (the client can see how the residential complex under construction will look like in the end), design (how the apartment will be transformed after repair), and so on.
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Virtual reality is when you put on a helmet or goggles and transport yourself to another place: roam the desert with Egyptian pyramids or ride a steep rollercoaster. Augmented reality is when you are in your room, but when you point your smartphone at its corner, you see a non-existent character on the screen. The most popular example of pre-realism is the app game PokemonGo.
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All over the world and in large Russian cities there are rooms and entire parks with virtual reality attractions. As «monsters», of course, typical freaks, and not a school classmate who mocked you. However, there are enough impressions.
Owners of these objects often warn: people with sensitive nervous systems and heart diseases shouldn’t entertain like this. Frightening monsters are encountered in virtual reality, and the «player’s» heart rate rises in real time. nine0003
Third season. Sixth series. «Hatred of the Nation»
A group of criminalists is investigating a series of mysterious deaths of people who have one thing in common: shortly before their death, they were victims of mass bullying on social networks.
The first victim was journalist Jo Powers. She became the object of hate for a critical article about a disabled activist. The plot twists when Powers is found in her house with her throat slit. An autopsy reveals a small artificial bee in the woman’s brain. It turns out that this is the development of a local startup — millions of «bees» ordered on behalf of the government, equipped with mini-cameras and perform the function of spying on citizens. nine0003
But the program is getting out of control, and now the bees are starting to kill whoever the users vote for on the Consequence Game website. But then the principle of choosing victims changes.
What do you already have? In this case, it is not so much about technology as about social processes. Online flash mobs and organized campaigns against specific people have become commonplace. Nobody uses killer bees to pursue victims, but such campaigns are already capable of ruining the reputation and life.
