ABSTRACT
The Secret of the Old Clock was developed and produced by Nancy Drew Interactive, Inc. of Bellevue, Washington. Her Interactive was founded in 1995 to create interactive games for the female audience. The Nancy Drew mysteries have been a success with girls of all ages for more than seventy-five years, with two hundred million copies in print worldwide. Many of the goals in creating The Secret of the Old Clock are shared with other games in the Nancy Drew series. Different difficulty levels may be the major reason that the Nancy Drew games can be enjoyed by a wide age range, but Her Interactive also tries other techniques to include the older audience. The Secret of the Old Clock game provides a good example of this in its use of the 1930s Nancy Drew books as source material and in setting the game in 1930.
