Nowhere (Devalley Entertainment, 2007) is a psychological survival horror that ran on old keypad phones. Two parallel worlds, two characters, and honestly pretty unsettling for something that fit on a Nokia. Mostly I just want to get it in front of people who've never even heard of it.
The thing is, the original couldn't show Cyrillic and Western letters at the same time, so it never really got translated. So I ended up making two things, a mod and an editor.
The mod:
- re-encoded everything to UTF-8, so it's 6 languages in one jar now (EN/DE/IT/PL/PT/RU), switchable in-game
- parallax fog it didn't have before
- hardcore mode, enemies get 3x HP
- speed control per save, helps a lot on slower emulators
The editor (Windows):
- visual editor for text and dialogue, with avatar preview and CP1251/UTF-8
- tile map editor with a brush, palette, resize
- zone editor for collisions, warps, entity spawns, events
- sprite sheet viewer with PNG export/import
- palette editor (16 colors) with live preview
- reference text for all 6 languages built in, so you can add your own without diving into hex
You can play it right in the browser, or grab the jar for J2ME Loader or KEmulator. The editor and a video on how to translate are on the same page:
https://bittertears.itch.io/nowhere
https://github.com/bittertears/NOWHERE_EDITOR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJPq5GX_sK8&t=29s
Anyway, hope someone here digs it.
This is amazing. I've been on a bit of a J2ME jag lately, and it can be difficult to find working copies of games, and then guess the requirements for running them. There are archives of dozens of copies of the same game, all with nearly identical file names, but each one has been tweaked for a different series of phones. Which file targets which phones? Who knows?!
I loaded your .jar into my emulator and it worked first time. I had also seen this specific game and wanted to play it, but it seemed only to be available in Russian and Chinese.
Thanks for all your hard work. It's really appreciated!
For anyone who's interested in J2ME horror, I also recommend the Silent Hill Orphan series. There are three games that I know of; point-and-click first-person adventures with simple combat. I bought and played them on an actual phone back in the day, but I think they're still good in emulation.