The White Chamber is a point-and-click puzzle-solving adventure.
Your character will explore rooms and environments, finding puzzles and solving clues in order to discover the mystery of ‘the white chamber’.
She will be able to do this by exploring and investigating his environment
The game is of the horror, sci-fi and mystery genres and has some violent, bloody and other possibly offensive material.
You can move your character around his environment by left-clicking on the part of the screen you wish her to move to with your cursor.
She cannot move to any area blocked by obstacles. If you left-click on an item in your character’s vicinity that he is able to interact with, he will walk up to that item and stand in front of it.
When the cursor hovers over an exit, it will become an arrow symbol.
Left-clicking on the screen when the cursor is over an exit will cause your character to leave the location he is in and enter an adjoining location.
There can be more than one exit to or from any location.
There might be times in the game when you can move something other than yourself. You might want to use the arrow keys on your keyboard for this.
You can have your character interact with objects in your environment in order to use them or to discover information about them.
If your character is able to interact with an object in his environment, its name will appear in the bottom right hand corner of the screen when you hover the cursor over it.
There are three initial courses of interaction with objects around your character:
You can access your character’s inventory by moving your cursor to the top of the screen. The inventory bar will appear, showing all objects your character is carrying. If he is carrying a lot of objects, you can use the arrow keys at each end of the inventory bar to scroll left and right.
When an object is in your inventory, you can interact with it in two ways:
To put an object back in your character’s inventory, left-click on the screen.
It might be possible at some stage to cause actions to be performed in appropriate situations by using the space bar.
The following list is a summary of the main symbols you will see and use in the game.
The cross hair cursor is the normal appearance of the cursor. When it is like this it can be used to move your character around his location. There is not an object that your character can interact with directly beneath the cursor when it appears like this.
The hand cursor indicates that something that your character can interact with lies directly beneath the cursor. Check for text in the bottom right hand corner of the screen when you see this cursor.
An arrow cursor signifies that the cursor is hovering over an exit. The direction of the arrow shows which direction your character will be travelling in if they take that exit.
The eye symbol is the icon that you select when you want your character to inspect an object more closely, in order to discover information about it.
The hand symbol is the icon that you select when you want your character to interact with (use, manipulate or take) an object.
You can access the game menu by pressing either ‘Escape’ or ‘F1’ on your keyboard. From it you can save the game, load a saved game, or quit the game.
Exit the game menu and continue playing your current game.
Save your current progress in the game so that you can come back to the current point in the game later.
When you choose to save the game, you will be shown a screen with several save game slots available. You can use the arrows to scroll up and down the list of available slots.
You can either overwrite a previously saved game or create a new save game file by selecting the slot you wish to write to with your cursor and clicking ‘OK’. This will take you to another screen, where you can choose to give the save game file a name you will recognise it by. To create the file click on ‘OK’ again.
If you decide not to create a save game file, clicking ‘Cancel’ on these screens will take you back to the main game menu.
Load a previously saved game and begin playing it.
When you choose to load a game, you will see a list of saved games (and empty save game slots). By using your cursor to click on one of the available saved game files and clicking on ‘OK’, you will load that game.
If you decide not to load a game, clicking ‘Cancel’ will take you back to the game menu.
Quit playing the game and close it down.
You will be asked if you are sure you want to quit the game. Click ‘Yes’ if you are and click ‘No’ if you wish to return to the game menu.