Gothic Series Giveaway [closed, solution posted]

This is a puzzle giveaway for Gothic Universe, which includes the following classic action RPG games by Piranha Bytes (same creators of Risen 1 and the recently released Risen 2):

• Gothic 1
• Gothic II: Gold edition (Gothic 2 + Gothic 2: Night of the Raven)
• Gothic 3 Enhanced edition

Gothic is a video game series for hardcore single-player RPG fan, if you are looking for an easy and short game, with a lot of visual hints on how to solve the quests, where you can walk through the game world without worry of the consequences, these games aren't suitable for you. You are a stranger very weak at the beginning of the game, you need experience points to level up, learn different skills, work hard, and so, depending on your in game choices, while the story evolves, you will become a warrior, a mage, a thief or what you want.

This is the first of a series of videos made by a Youtube user that shows as Gothic 3 looks like with the recently released (April, 2012) Enhanced edition patch applied that improves graphics and fixes a lot of bugs (stuttering problem included). I preferred to make a puzzle based on Gothic 1 to protect against spoilers people who wants play these games, enjoys the story and the free roaming. Despite of an outdated graphics, I think it is a great game that deserves to be played more than others...

How to enter

This is a demo based puzzle giveaway. You have to play a bit the demo of the game, solve some quests and then answer to some my (not hard) questions. I am editing this post Saturday to add the link with the questions. In meanwhile you have time to download it from a reliable source (see below for a list) and install, verify if it works well on your system, even play it and determine whether you like the game or not. The giveaway ends Sunday.

Please don't enter the giveaway if you already played Gothic 3 or Gothic 2 (don't matter if it wasn't a Steam version). Unlike my previous demo based giveaway, I made harder to solve the puzzle without playing the demo, you solve the puzzle playing the game more quickly than browsing the web.

Feel free to talk about the game and request support about how to play or if you experience a technical problem, but please don't spoil the puzzle, don't post hints, and of course don't share the final giveaway link.

Questions - Question 7 fixed - Timer

Q3 Hint: Be careful when you open the letter the first time, something might to change later unexpectedly.

Solution - Giveaway

Download links

Unless I change my plan, you need to download Gothic 1 Demo only for the giveaway. Gothic 2 and 3 links here if you are curious and don't care about spoilers (Gothic 2 starts where Gothic 1 ends, and Gothic 3 as well).

Gothic 1 Demo ver. 1.08j (English)

• Developer site
• GamersHell

Gothic 2 Demo

• Gamefront
• GamersHell

Gothic 3 Demo

• GamersHell

General hints about Gothic 1

• Test your favourite control settings: "Default" (keyboard based) and "Alternative" (Mouse + WASD based).
• To interact with objects or persons, attack, move inventory items, etc., hold the Control key or the left mouse button and use the arrow keys or the WASD keys (if "Alternative" mode is enabled) as appropriate to direct your action. For example, to pick up an object: hold the Control key and press the Up Arrow key. To equip a weapon: TAB (open the inventory), arrow keys to select a weapon (if you have any), hold the Control key and press Up Arrow key.
• You have many savegame slots
• NPCs can help you to kill enemies
• You can solve a quest in different ways
• Unlike the final version, demo has invisible walls and others limitations.
• Unless you kill someone, nobody human will kill you in this demo (maybe).
• I don't think that playing the demo you can get into the castle. I think you can't complete the demo either.
• Use the default screen resolution. Resolution higher than 800x600 might causes readability issues (let me know if this is a problem for your monitor)

Report problems

If you wish to report any problem privately, you can get into the SteamGifts chat and PM me from there, or send a PM via Steam Forum.