Website Update 04.18.2025

Hello fellow sleuths! My oh my, do I have an exciting update to share with you today!

I finally found the root cause of error in the various mini games that weren't working on my site! Turns out, several of the mini games required an extra file called an XML file which featured various pieces of information. Some files had links to download awards or navigate to purchase the games, or even just text used in the game itself. I had a lot of trouble over the last couple days to figure out what the error was, find the XML files, and then edit the SWF's code so that the game would know to look for its specific file within my website instead of another location. Once I found out how to make the fix, things became really easy. I had never broken into an SWF file before and it was a joy to see what was inside. In case you don't know what an SWF file is, that's the exported version of the game, similar to how the ND PC games are exported as EXE.

Here's something really cool I extracted from the Danger by Design mini game:

These are all the dialogue lines from the game! How cool is that? These were recorded specifically for this mini game and can't be found in any other piece of Nancy Drew game media!

Anyways, enough about the behind the scenes of it. I'm sure most of you are dying to finally be able to play the mini game for Warnings at Waverly Academy again! Go run the snack shop and have fun!

That about wraps up today's post. Until next time, detectives!

Huw