| Genesys
Walkthrough by Enigma
Genesys really is a rather simple game. You find objects
and place them on a "riddle screen." The problem is,
though, that you may not be able to find all the objects, and
you may not know where to put them in this almost 100% linear
game. So here it all is, step by teensy step.
General Instructions
The game begins with a beautifully produced movie introduction.
After this or after the cutscenes you'll always find one or more
screens on which you can pick up objects and listen to characters
speak. Your computer pointer will change shape when you move it
over hotspots. If the black mark on your pointer is on the left,
you can pick up an object. If the black mark is on the right,
you can click on a character to listen. Left-click to pick up,
right-click or command-click to listen. Occasionally both sides
of the pointer will be black, indicating that you can both listen
to and pick up the character.
Listen to all of the characters for clues (except in the first
two enigmas—see below), and paint the screen to find every
object on each screen. Then click on the small black and white
icon with a picture of gears at the top of your screen. That will
take you to the "Enigma Screen." When you first open
it, a document will pop up on the left side of the screen. On
it you'll read a brief description of the riddle to be solved—I'll
call this the "Enigma Document" in this walkthrough.
In that document you'll see some words highlighted in red. These
are buttons, taking you into the game's encyclopedia. Almost always,
you'll find more objects to pick up on those pages, along with
more clues to the enigma. When you return to the Enigma page,
the document will be gone, but you can get it back again by clicking
on the small black icon at the bottom left of the Enigma screen.
Click on the black icon again to make the document disappear.
The objects you've collected will be in your inventory, a side-scrolling
strip at the bottom left corner of your screen. Immediately to
the right of it you'll see a question mark. Clicking on that will
reveal even more about the riddle.
Next, go to work. On each Enigma screen, your main task will
be to place the objects you've collected in your inventory onto
the screen. Usually you have to do these in an exact order. Occasionally
you'll need to manipulate something on the screen. A numbered
gauge at the top of your screen will advance in red with each
correct move you make. When you've finished the puzzle, click
anywhere on the screen to see Jeanne Moreau tell you about the
next advance in civilization.
At the right top of your screen you'll always see icons of the
playing screens along with the Enigma icon and another icon just
to the left of those. You can move between screens easily by clicking
on their respective icons. The icon on the left takes you to a
lovely screen that describes the religious beliefs of each major
period. It's nice to see and has an excellent narration, but has
nothing whatsoever to do with solving the Enigmas.
Also, look at the bottom right corner of your screen. There you'll
see a "return" button, a "Quickmove" button,
and an "Options" button. "Return" will take
you to the last screen you saw. "Quickmove" gives you
access to the entire encyclopedia, which organizes its pages according
to time periods. Little icons on the side allow you to view the
pages you've seen, those you haven't seen, or the whole encyclopedia.
You can also search for a page. You don't have to visit all of
the pages to win the game, but you can if you like. It's very
well produced and has some good music.
The "Option" button lets you save, adjust the volume,
or quit.
Now then. On to the game.
Enigma #1: Make a Stone Tool
On the first screen, pick up:
(I advise you not to listen to the characters on these early
screens. They don't know language yet. They just sound like a
child's imitation of an ape. It's pretty annoying.)
Go to Enigma document and click on "well sharpened."
An encyclopedia page will appear. Pick up:
Go back to the Enigma screen.
On the Enigma screen, place:
- The stone on the grass
- The striker over the stone
Once the animation finishes, take the stone and place it on the
stick.
Puzzle complete.
Enigma #2: Building a Fire
On the first screen, pick up:
On the second screen, pick up fire stick.
On Enigma Document, click on "fire." Pick up fire.
On Enigma Document, click on "light up." Pick up torch.
On Enigma Document, click on "light." Pick up tinder.
On Enigma Screen, place:
1. Fire Stick
2. Tinder
Now manipulate the fire stick a few times. When a fire starts,
place:
3. Twigs
4. Hut (on right side of screen)
5. Fire holes
6. Torch on burning fire
7. Move burning torch over fire holes
Puzzle complete.
Enigma #3: Primitive Society
From now on you'll need to listen to the characters. Sorry about
the voice acting.
On first screen, pick up:
On second screen, pick up:
- Potter
- Spinner
- Pottery
- Pottery being fired
On third screen, pick up:
- Milk
- Wool
- Flock
- Animal traction
On Enigma document, click on "Agriculture" and pick
up cereals.
On Enigma document, click on "food" and pick up sheep.
On Enigma document, click on "clothing" and pick up
ancient fabric and bone needle.
On Enigma screen, place (left to right, top to bottom, approximately,
although you can do these in any order):
1. Material (fabric)
2. Spinner
3. Needle
4. Flax
5. Wool
6. Sower
7. Ploughing
8. Animal traction
9. Herd
10. Potter
11. Fire
12. Cereal
13. Meat (they were sheep when you found them)
14. Milk
15. Pottery
Puzzle complete.
Enigma #4: Trade
On first screen, pick up:
- Cart wheel
- Sides of the cart
- Cart shafts
- Amphorae
- Sacks of wheat
On second screen, pick up:
- Crewman
- Another crewman
- Captain
- Sail
On Enigma document, click on "chariot" and pick up
cart.
On Enigma document, click on "boat" and pick up ship
and a tiller (it's attached to the ship)
On Enigma screen, place:
1. Cart
2. Shaft of cart
3. Wheels
4. Side of cart
5. Sacks of wheat
6. Amphorae
Now click on the Egyptian city (it's there on the map at the
mouth of the Nile). Your cart will move there and an area for
your ship will pop up. Place:
1. Ship
2. Tiller
3. Crewman
4. Another crewman
5. Captain
6. Sail
Now pick up the sacks and amphorae from Egypt, and place them
on your ship. Watch the animation.
Puzzle complete.
Enigma #5: Metallurgy
This one nearly stopped the game for me. Some of these objects
are really hard to find, but they're nearly all on the playing
screens.
On first screen, pick up:
- Bellows
- Another bellows
- Furnace (the whole thing)
- Foundry worker
- A unit of fuel
- Another unit of fuel
- Two more units of fuel
- Blacksmith
On second screen, pick up:
- 25 units of tin
- 5 units of tin
- 50 units of copper
- 250 units of copper
On third screen, pick up:
On Enigma document, click on "moulds" and pick up all
three moulds.
On Enigma screen, place:
1. Furnace
2. One unit of fuel (in furnace)
3. Foundry worker
4. Axe mould
5. Large bellows
6. 25 units of tin (in side of furnace)
7. 250 units of copper
Your completed axe will show up on the left and your fire will
go out. Now place:
8. One unit of fuel
9. Bracelet mould
10. 5 units of tin
11. 50 units of copper
Your bracelet is finished and your fire will go out again. Now
place:
12. Two units of fuel
13. Dagger mould
14. Small bellows
15. 100 units of iron
16. Blacksmith
Puzzle complete.
Enigma #6: Writing
On first screen, pick up:
- Amphorae
- Cart
- Sumerian tablet
On Enigma document, click on "scripts;" pick up:
Go to "Cuneiform Writing;" pick up:
Go to "Hieroglyphics;" pick up:
On Enigma screen, place:
Place Sumerian words so that the message reads:
"with the cart and the jars leave the river and cross
the river between mountain small and mountain large"
Place the cart on the Egyptian city; place amphorae in cart.
Visit new screen (China) and pick up:
On Enigma screen, place:
Place Egyptian words so that the message reads (in two columns):
"is the party in the process of advancing between two
mountains passing in the direction of river and water course,
descending in the direction of the current, heading north"
Place silk on cart in Chinese city.
Visit new screen (Mesopotamia); pick up:
- Incense
- Chinese parchment
On Enigma screen, place:
Place Chinese words so that the message reads:
"praise to he who has opened up the route now he can as
soon as possible return to his home may incense and silk make
him wealthy"
Place incense on the cart in the Mesopotamian city.
Puzzle complete.
Enigma #7: Money
On first screen, pick up:
On second screen, pick up:
On Enigma document, click on "the law;" pick up Hammurabi's
code.
On Enigma screen, place on scales:
- Fabric
- Amphorae
- Bronze objects
Three piles of coins will appear. Place :
- The upper left pile of coins on the first plate
- The upper right pile of coins on the second plate; get change
- The bottom pile of coins on the third plate; get change
- The upper pile of coins on the fourth plate
- The last pile of coins on the last plate
- Hammurabi's code in the center.
Puzzle complete.
Now we skip the Roman Empire completely and go to the Middle
Ages.
Enigma #8: Printing
On first screen, pick up:
On second screen, notice how the actors mispronounce the name
"Gutenberg," and pick up:
On Enigma document, click on "stages;" pick up:
On Enigma document, click on "letter;" pick up:
- Chinese book
- Clay characters
- Gutenberg
On Enigma document, click on "printed;" pick up:
On Enigma screen, place:
1. Seal
2. Ink
3. Paper
4. First printed text
5. First book
6. Clay letters
7. Metal moveable type
8. Gutenberg
The screen will change. Now place:
9. Template page
10. Case
Now you must pick up the metal letters from the case and place
them, one at a time and backwards, in the blank areas on the plate.
Follow the words on the template.
- First line: difciplina;ad
- Second line: intelligenda(space)verba
- Third line: prudentie
Move the paper to the plate, then the ink, then place the press
on the left.
Puzzle complete.
Disc Two
Enigma 9: Exploration
On first screen, pick up:
On second screen, pick up:
- Provisions
- Beggar
- Water
- Crewman
- Helmsman
- Bosun
- Another crewman
On Enigma screen, place on ship:
1. Chest of gold
2. Supplies (provisions)
3. Water
Place on silhouettes:
1. Helmsman
2. Bosun
3. Sailor
4. Sailor
5. Beggar
Now click on the rudder until the compass reads SW, and click
on the sail (next to the compass) to move the ship to Brazil.
Visit new screen; pick up:
On Enigma screen, place on ship:
Click on the rudder until the compass reads just past SW; click
on the said to go to the Magellan Straits.
Click on rudder till the compass reads almost to NW; click on
the sail to move to the Moluccas.
Visit new screen; pick up:
On Enigma screen, place on ship:
Click on the rudder until the compass reads between W and SW.
Click on sail. Click on rudder until the compass reads N, then
NE to move to Seville.
Puzzle complete.
Enigma #10: Industrial Revolution
On first screen, pick up:
On second screen, pick up:
On third screen, pick up:
- Girders
- Rails
- Mechanical looms
On Enigma document, click on "steam engine;" pick up:
On Enigma screen, place:
- Newcomb's engine (on left). It will separate into parts.
Place individual parts from the left side of the screen onto
the diagram on the right side of the screen to rebuild the pump.
The screen will change to a new scene. Now place:
1. Steam engine on lower right building
2. Steam pump on upper building
3. Mechanical loom on lower left building
Pick up the rails from your inventory and move them over all
the roads to build tracks.
Now place:
1. Girders on bridge
2. Locomotive on rails
3. Wagon on locomotive.
Watch the animation.
Puzzle complete.
Enigma #11: Electricity
On first screen, pick up:
- Steam engine
- Thomas Edison
On second screen, pick up:
- Joseph W. Swan
- Incandescent lamp
- Arc lamp
On third screen, pick up:
- Nikola Tessla
- Induction motor
On Enigma document, click on "discovery;" pick up:
- Electric generator (top of screen in grayscale drawing)
- Efficient engine
- Dynamo
- Electromagnet
On Enigma document, click on "inventor;" pick up:
- Georges Leclanche
- Hacksbee
- William Robert Grove
- Andre Marie Ampere
- Michael Faraday
- Allesandro Volta
On Enigma screen, from right to left, top to bottom in the larger
circles and in the little red circles, place:
1. Electric generator
2. Electromagnet
3. Dynamo
4. Volta
5. Leclanche
6. Edison
7. Arc lamp
8. Hacksbee
9. Grove
10. Swan
11. Electric engine
12. Ampere
13. Faraday
14. Tessla
The screen changes to a night scene; place:
- Steam dynamo
- Asynchronous motor
- Incandescent bulb
Puzzle complete.
Enigma #12: The Telephone
On first screen, pick up:
- Switchboard operator
- Manual switchboard
On Enigma document, click on "the telephone;" pick
up:
On Enigma screen, place telephone on the grass. It will separate
into parts. Reassemble it on the right side of the screen. Then
pick up the telephone from the screen and click it on all of the
buildings to build telephone poles.
Place in the tall building:
- Switchboard
- Switchboard operator
Now click on the tall building first, then each of the telephone
poles to string up wires. Then click on each of the buildings
to make a phone ring in each one.
Puzzle complete.
Enigma #13: Land Transport
On first screen, pick up:
- Motorist
- Tarmac (the road)
- Traffic lights
- Police officer
- Car
On second screen, pick up:
- Carriage
- Rotunda (the whole building)
- Steam engine
- Rails
On Enigma document, click on "trains;" pick up:
- Station (the whole thing)
On Enigma screen:
- Move the tarmac over the screen to build three intersecting
roads
- Move the rails over the screen to build tracks
Place in intersection:
Place:
- Two cars on road
- Station
- Rotunda
- Locomotive
- Carriage (on locomotive)
Puzzle complete.
Enigma #14: Radio and Television
On first screen, pick up:
- Audio clips of
- Radio talent show
- Dempsey/Carpentier fight
- Sixties music
- Nazi propaganda broadcast
- 1938 radio
- 1944 radio
- 1935 radio
- 1939 radio
On second screen, pick up:
- Radio London news clip
- Sixties song news clip
- Radio talent show news clip
- Roosevelt news clip
- Dempsey/Carpentier fight
- Presenter
(Note that all five news clips are in the two stacks of film
cans at the bottom of the screen. Just keep clicking on them until
you have everything.)
On Enigma document, click on "the Story of Radio;"
pick up:
- Crystal set
- Transistor radio
- F. D. Roosevelt
- De Gaulle
- Hitler
On Enigma screen, place in sound archive slots:
1. Dempsey/Carpentier fight (yes, most of these are in French)
2. Roosevelt audio clip
3. Nazi propaganda audio clip
4. Radio talent show
5. Radio London audio clip
6. Sixties music audio clip
In news slots, place:
1. Dempsey/Carpentier news clip
2. Roosevelt news clip
3. Nazi propaganda news clip
4. Radio talent show news clip
5. Radio London news clip
6. Sixties songs news clip
In radio set slots, place:
1. Crystal set
2. 1935 set
3. 1938 set
4. 1939 set
5. 1944 set
6. 1969 set
Then place presenter in the presenter slot. He'll multiply and
fill up all six slots. Watch animation.
Puzzle complete.
Enigma #15: Aviation
On first screen, pick up:
- Lindbergh's plane
- Wright Brothers' plane
- Bleriot's plane
- The Bull X-1
- Sputnik
On Enigma document, click on "the hot air balloon;"
pick up:
- Otto Lilienthal
- The Montgolfier Brothers
On Enigma document, click on "space station;" pick
up:
- Apollo
- Mir
- Columbia
- Yuri Gargarin
- Alexsey Leonov
- Neil Armstrong
Now go to the encyclopedia page "The Jet Plane" and
pick up:
On Enigma screen, place in the dated picture frames:
- 1965 Leonov
- 1969 Armstrong
- 1975 Apollo
- 1981 Columbia
- 1986 Mir
- 1961 Gargarin
- 1957 Sputnik
- 1947 Bell X-1
- 1939 Jet plane
- 1927 Lindbergh
- 1909 Bleriot's plane
- 1903 Wright Brothers
- 1783 Montgolfier Brothers
Puzzle complete.
Enigma #16: Computers
On first screen, pick up:
- Monitor
- Keyboard
- Case
- Microprocessor
- Disc drive
- Motherboard
- Power supply (on the floor in the back)
On second screen, pick up:
On Enigma screen, place:
1. Monitor
2. Keyboard
3. Case (to the right)
4. Motherboard (in case)
5. Processor (in case)
6. Disc drive (in case)
7. Power supply (in case)
Now click on the power supply to turn the computer on. Place:
8. Basic manual (on table)
Finally, using your own computer's keyboard, type the message
in the Basic manual exactly as you see it (include returns).
Puzzle complete.
Watch the nice ending movie.
Game complete. 
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