What _IS_ this game?

[SomeGuy]

There is a publisher sale, and they seem to have like fifty different versions of these games cranked out. That's not a terrible thing! Sierra cranked out about that many after all on thier engines. But this question is directed at the developer, but people who have played a few different ones (or this one and a bunch of 3rd party ones) are welcome to respond...

What is this game?
Is it a hidden puzzle object game?
Or is is like the old Sierra King/Police/Quest/forGlory games? MYST?
Something else?

I've watched a couple of the videos but they don't really tell me what the core gameplay is. The video for this one basically seems like a modern (well, VGA+) graphics version of the cutscenes from Monkey's Island or whatever. It made me think of the QFG scenes with Erasmus or the Antwerp hunting scientist. Better than just a static "move your mouse over the red pixel" hidden object game, but it still tells me nothing of the actual game play.

I'll go look at a youtube lets play before the sale ends, but Devs... show us bit of actual game play in the video, let us see the mouse/cursor movement or whatever please :)

[stardazzled]

Clockwork Tales is an adventure with Hidden Object scenes and puzzles. You collect items by various means and use them. You usually use them for puzzles or to unlock Hidden Object scenes, for example: you get a key somehow somewhere, then use it on a door and behind is a HO scene where you get an item from.

The genre usually is called HOPA - Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure. In my opinion, most HOPAs are pretty straight forward without much backtracking. The items found are often used in other scenes that are not very far away.

[SomeGuy]

Ok, so HOPA + QT (QuickTime style cut scenes.
Thanks!