Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy

The Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy remaster from 2017 (originally released in 2003) has seen a big upgrade arrive for the classic. Read the full article here:

Hi there, everyone!Time for another stable, cumulative update covering the latest fixes and improvements since our last 2024-04-21 change notes. This is what many of you have been already enjoying if opted into the latest beta or sixty-four-bits branches. Via right-click on your Steam Library entry, then Properties > Betas.There is a lot to unpack here, the "short" version is that projected soft shadows and character lighting have been overhauled and refined following community feedback; they don't match exactly the original PS2-style shading, and follows the reference 3ds Max render look that Eurocom targeted internally, but I think it is a good improvement, and even many purists in the community seem to like it. (If you don't agree with this or have any other feedback please let me know on Discord or open a forum thread)There have been many edits to the underlying levels themselves, fixing visual and logic issues, making them look and feel better. Got rid of a handful of softlocks and other annoying behavior.There have been even more new save statues added at strategic points. Mainly in the middle points of Wall Section II and Heliopolis Dungeon, just befor

This update comes with lots of bugfixes and gameplay tweaks, improved levels (Cursed Palace, Mummy Sewer and Uruk Temple), and a few higher-quality textures. People with NVIDIA laptops should not get black screens anymore. The fiddly part at the end of Uruk Temple with the moving metal platform has been streamlined. See the full changelog below: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31158491/78462b3758bcde3b7db03cfe4ce64d41caae0763.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31158491/124d0bf8860b09592eccbc3b47f8ff636b7b3425.png 2024-04-21 (Sunday) Tweak the Mummy Sewer level to fix the glitchy metal grate that flickered against the water plane, also fix the fast-moving water in the 64-bit version of the same level. Fix a bunch of player-reported crashes and bugs: Fix a crash to desktop when picking up items without a parent trigger. Fix a hairy issue related to «pickupable» frozen enemies who are almost dead. Fix a NULL pointer dereference in the way EngineX draws in-game windows, which led to code execution redirection. Fix a crash when the player tried to look at another nearby character's neck, but the neck bone did not exist. Yes, I know. The NVIDIA driver reports supporting up to MSAA x32 via costly supersampli

7305 days ago a game titled Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy was first released in North America. After around three years of development and more than a few name changes, going from «Shadow of Set» at E3 to «Misfortunate Mummy» around summer, they finally settled on what we all know. The project started as a 1996 CGI movie concept from a small team of artists from Valencia, Spain called Anibyte. The team had already worked with Eurocom doing the cutscenes for a previous game of theirs called 40 Winks. In these small demos, which can now be watched here and here, thanks to Ana Amat, we can already see some familiar faces in a different fantasy setting. Eventually, the team could not get their movie funded, and joined game developer Eurocom to mutate the concept into something even more familiar. Merging Egyptian mythology, a touch of Arabian Nights, the Luna project, and a vibrant and friendly animated look. We already see a transforming Sphinx, Anubis, and some early monsters like the Goofy Lizard. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31158491/4573bde77570c25e233608037d28b7f7ba708ffa.jpg{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31158491/5c2ce27ef9387d89a6a3c2d48150fde2cb255504.png Once the game started pre-production we can s