CDX

Our History folks have gone and done it again with the release of CDX, an impressive-looking point-and-click mystery game released to coincide with the transmission of Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire.

Joystiq likes it:

We're interested in CDX for its production values and episodic bent. In our initial overview of the game, the graphics, sound, and pacing seem strong. We keep thinking of the episodic trend being suited to commercial titles, with Sin, Half-Life, Bone, and others coming out; but episodic gaming seems even more suited to Flash, where you can play without any software installation.

Jay is Games lurves it:

CDX is shaping up to be yet another remarkable effort from the BBC and Preloaded teams, and they have created an engaging and compelling interactive experience that is very enjoyable to play. Looking forward with earnest to the next installment.

Good old History department. Must've been lots of well spent childhoods playing Civ and the likes...

Comments

[Jon K]

Me likey these games. Well done again, BBC.

[Guilded Lily]

Why won't the BBC share this fun outside of the UK?

" We regret that we cannot offer CDX to non-UK users."

But I wanna play too!

[Alice]

In all likelihood the developers (an indie, Preloaded) will have retained the rights to exploit the game outside of the UK.

Geolocation on the internet is dumb, in my humble and extremely personal opinion. I can see why people cling onto them, but in the long term, it makes no sense.

[Andy]

The decision to lock down to UK was definitely not down to Preloaded.

[Alice]

Curious, it's usually the indies that require global rights, but if Preloaded aren't, then it must be the BBC making that decision...

... which means I need to go find out what's going on ;)

[Alice]

Yup, "bandwidth" issues, apparently.

Not ideal. Just not ideal at all.
Preloaded deserve to have their work seen by the world..