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The Everything-O-Matic — Free Windows demo of a point-and-click adventure

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Hi, I’m Maik, the solo developer behind The Everything-O-Matic. The first Windows demo is out and you can play it free in English or German.

It’s 1987, and Paul Knopf’s new job at the Tüftelburg patent office is to test inventions. Then he comes across a machine that claims it can do everything. In the demo, you’ll talk to inventors, poke around their workshops, and figure out how their gadgets work.

Play the free Windows demo on itch.io

If you give it a go, I’d love to know where you got stuck and what you tried first. That’ll help me tell which clues need another pass.

ming10110 hours ago

Having a patent clerk personally test ridiculous inventions is such a great setup for a point-and-click adventure haha. After some trial and error, does the inventor drop new hints through dialogue, or do players mostly figure things out from how the machine reacts?

MaiksMinds Interactive1 hour ago

Thanks, ming101! Glad the setup made you laugh. It’s a bit of both. For example, if Greta’s self-dusting desk sucks up her drawing, it ends up in the return tray and the test tells you what happened. Talk to Greta again and she’ll comment on how that particular test went, sometimes with a clue about what to check next. That can happen after your very first try.