The publishing brand Renatus has brought one of its best hidden object titles to Facebook. The social version of Dream: Hidden Adventure puts players inside the truly exciting non-linear search of hidden items in bizarre and beautiful Dream World.

Dream: Hidden Adventure made its first steps into the gaming industry on the App Store in October 2013 and remained an exclusive iPad-only app for unfairly long. After a major update the game became available to all hidden object game fans with iPhones.

In spite of below-zero temperatures, December happened to be the hottest month in terms of releases and together with snow the world got caught in the shower of mobile versions of Dream: Hidden Adventure. Amazon Appstore and Google Play placed the app with a few days gap right before the New Year’s Eve.

Renatus Media, LLC, famous for publishing casual and mid-core games on major mobile and social platforms and reaching the 10,000,000 MAU milestone in less than twelve months, started this new 2014th year with a new release. The time has come to drive Dream: Hidden Adventure to social platforms. The other day, this game appeared in the Facebook’s App Center to the delight of those who prefer online playing.

This game offers its players a brand-new, outside-the-box game experience in the child’s dream. It is a world with nothing but Dreams, Nightmares and Absurdities embodied in islands hovering in the pinkish vanilla sky. Every location represents a completely different reality with its own inhabitants and hidden objects. There’s a dark Moon Pond lit by romantic (or wicked) moonlight, and the Underbed with buttons and dirty socks scattered all over it, and Angland that knows no oval or round shapes.

But there’s a big Black Hole problem endangering peaceful future of the Dream world. And player’s mission is to solve it by getting through all kinds of quests. The search of ordinary and unique hidden objects takes turns with item collecting assignments, collection completing tasks and so on, up to exchanging things with the Moose.

The search quests alone have new tricks to surprise users with – the Presences. Those things ‘have two faces’, being useful and harmful at the same time. They can “eat” letters in the names of objects, haze locations, blur the player’s view and otherwise hinder his search.

Creators did not want it to be a solitary adventure, that’s why players are not just permitted, but encouraged to invite as many Facebook friends as possible to share this seek-and-find fun. Plus, they can always sync their progress and continue what once started on mobile phone or tablet.

The 4th release of Dream: Hidden Adventure is another proof of ‘the more – the better’ saying. Playing on Facebook offers a bit different sensations to users allowing them to always stay online. Even while in the dream world.

TRANSFORMICE

Transformice is an independent multiplayer free-to-play online platform browser game created by French designers known by their aliases Melibellule and Tigrounette. Melibellule produces the game’s artwork and graphics, while Tigrounette programs the game’s functions and mechanics.

The main objective of the game is to collect a piece of cheese placed randomly around a map. Players control a mouse with the arrow keys, numeric keypad or the WASD keys to run, duck, jump and perform various techniques, such as wall jumping and corner jumping. Players mice must touch the cheese to collect it. After which, the player must take the collected cheese back to the map’s mouse hole to finish. The number of cheese and mouse holes varies between maps. Players are awarded points on a scoreboard that is updated in real-time.

Bonus points are awarded for players who place first, second or third. Collecting cheese is recorded into a player’s permanent stats. Players are also given extra recognition in their stats for finishing first. Maps have a time limit of two minutes, at which time a new map is loaded. Maps can instantly switch before the time limit if all mice complete the map or die. The timer will change to 20 seconds if the Shaman dies or too few mice are left on the map. Dying adds one point to a player’s score on the scoreboard.

When a player reaches the highest score on the scoreboard, they will become a Shaman in the next map involving one. The general objective of the Shaman is to help the other mice to reach the cheese and bring it back to the hole. Doing so will award the Shaman with “saves” for each mouse who completes the map, which are recorded onto the player’s profile. The Shaman can do so by summoning objects such as boards, boxes, anvils, spirit, and balloons to create buildings or contraptions such as bridges to cross gaps or various other obstacles. A shaman can ‘anchor’ or connect boards and boxes to other world objects or summoned objects with various-colored nails. Red nails keep an object firmly grounded and will not move, but it can rotate on the anchor. Yellow nails connect to most other objects, particularly red-nailed ones, and keep an object’s placement, but can move. Green nails connect two objects but are loose and can rotate an object.

Upon reaching 1,000 total saves as a Shaman, a player can choose to become a ‘hard mode’ Shaman. In hard mode, a Shaman cannot use red nails which anchor an object solidly, nor can they use the Spirit tool, which can push mice and objects with a flash of light. Spirit is the only object allowed to be cast outside of summoning range. In lieu of this, hard mode Shamans can create a pre-made ‘totem’, which is constructed on an in-game editor map. Totems can be constructed with up to 20 objects, but only one red nail may be used as an anchor. A completed totem construction can be summoned instantly as a hard mode Shaman and is immediately functional, but may only be summoned once per map.

Collected cheese is also saved up and used as currency in the game. Players can use this currency to buy virtual clothing items for their mouse in the game’s item shop. Items are purely visual and do not give bonus stats. Players can also create their own maps via an in-game editor. Created maps must be verified by a test run of the map where the creator has to be able to successfully collect the cheese and bring it back to the hole. Once verified, players can choose to submit their map into rotation at the cost of 40 cheese.

An in-game achievement system awards players with new titles. Titles are awarded for collecting specific numbers of cheese, obtaining a certain amount of first place victories, accumulating saves as a Shaman and buying items from the shop.

Trolling is considered a part of the game, as stated in the in-game ‘Help/Rules’ menu. Some players infrequently decide to troll, whether playing as the Shaman or a normal mouse. Shamans can kill other mice by striking them with cannonballs and other objects, as well as blocking them from progressing in the map by building a structure that is impossible to pass. Normal mice can troll by stalling, which is to stay on the map for as long as possible without capturing the cheese. Normal mice may also choose to push the Shaman’s buildings off the stage. In maps where there is collision detection, they can also push other mice, including the Shaman, off the stage.