Nancy Drew: Warnings at Waverly Academy

Warnings at Waverly Academy is the twenty-first game in the Nancy Drew PC game series.

Available on: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10
ESRB: E for Everyone
PC Release Date: October 13, 2009
Release MSRP: $19.99 USD
Current MSRP: $14.99 USD
Number of Discs: 2
Game Abbreviation: WAC
Game Color Code: E96550
Inspired by/Based on: Nancy Drew Mystery Stories Digest Paperback #158: The Curse of the Black Cat

Game Description: Enroll in a School Plagued by Suspicions and Lies!
You, as Nancy Drew, are undercover at a prestigious girls’ boarding school to discover the culprit behind threatening notes and dangerous accidents aimed at its valedictorian candidates! Is there a secret someone wants to protect or are the girls playing games to scare away the competition – permanently? Solve the mystery before the threats turn deadly and you’re expelled from Nancy Drew: Warnings at Waverly Academy!
PC System Requirements: 1 GHz or greater Pentium or equivalent class CPU. 256 MB of RAM. 1GB or more of hard drive space. 32MB DirectX 9.0 compatible graphics video card. 16-bit DirectX compatible sound card. 24x CD-ROM drive. Mouse and Speakers.

Fun Facts:

This is the first and only game with a female-only cast of physical characters you can interact with.
This is the second Nancy Drew game to take place in the state of New York.
A sticker with the academy's logo can be found on a desk in The Haunting of Castle Malloy.
Some songs in the soundtrack are covers of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach and Giuseppe Tartini.
The old photographs of Rita Hallowell and other past faculty members feature some of the game's creators.
In the rec room, there's some art by Poppy Dada, a character who was first introduced in Secret of the Scarlet Hand.
One of the books in the library is from Message in a Haunted Mansion.
In the lost and found drawer, you can find Bess's bracelet from Ransom of the Seven Ships and a garden gnome from The Haunting of Castle Malloy.
The cover art for the game featured some new changes from the box art for the Dossier games. Instead of the large black PC CD strip across the top of the box, HeR placed a strip featuring the game's color.
This was the final game to release in the thicker DVD case and it was the final Nancy Drew game to release exclusively for the Windows operating system.
Mel's room is full of items from past games. She has a doll from Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon standing in her room. She also has hand print stickers from Secret of the Scarlet Hand on her dresser drawers. Mel has a NEO poster hanging in her room. NEO was first introduced in The Final Scene. She also has a Creepy's Corner poster hanging on her dresser referencing Secret of the Old Clock.
Hanging on the bulletin board in the rec room is a poster for The Vampire Diaries, HeR Interactive's second game.
Rachel Hubbard's mug features the exact same art as Joanna's mug in Secret of the Scarlet Hand. Both pieces of art are very similar to the opening title art for Ransom of the Seven Ships.
Aside from the theme song, Kevin Manthei did not compose the original score for this game. Instead, a company called SomaTone Interactive Audio wrote the music. They also scored The Hardy Boys: Treasure on the Tracks.

Waverly Academy Microsite

As a promo for the game, HeR Interactive created a microsite that acted as a school website for Waverly Academy. It featured the same design as the school website in-game. You were able to read about Waverly, look into what academics the school offers, take a look at the campus map, read about the activities they offer, read testimonials from past students (Professor Hotchkiss (TRT, CRY, TMB), Jamsine Ivy (RED), Kyler Mallory (HAU), Heather McKay (DAN), and Dr. Quigley Kim (CRE)), and apply for the school.
*Some elements no longer function as Adobe Flash has been discontinued.
Check out the site here: https://web.archive.org/web/20091019110109/http://www.warningsatwaverlyacademy.com/index.html

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Characters

Izzy Romero

The Queen Bee herself, Izzy is at the top of the social ladder. She’s the student body president and the life of the party. Keeping her crown as the queen of the school is no easy feat though. Is she resorting to scare tactics to keep everyone else from threatening her position at the top?

Mel Corbalis

A self-professed outcast and a recluse, Mel spends most of her time disliking the social cliques in school and practicing her cello. She was automatically accepted because she comes from a long line of alumnae, but she doesn’t really want to attend Waverly. Would she send threats to the other girls to bring down the social ladder

Leela Yadev

Leela is the all-star athlete, who is as fierce at competing academically as she is on the soccer field. With the race for valedictorian heating up and the contenders so close in rank, would Leela’s need to win at all costs drive her to make drastic plans to gain the competitive edge?

Corine Myers

Although Corine may be the smartest of the valedictorian candidates, she doesn’t really fit in with the group. The other girls think she tries too hard to be popular and don’t include her in their parties. If Corine can’t join the ‘in-crowd’, then maybe she can get their attention in other ways…

Rachel Hubbard

Three weeks ago, Rachel nearly had the title for valedictorian in the bag, but then she failed a test! In order for her to regain the lead, all of the other girls would also need to fail a test or paper. Scaring the other girls with threatening notes from the Black Cat would certainly distract them from their studies…