The player's starting inventory consists of a diary, a map, some petty cash, a cookbook and a guidebook.

The CD version only allows two different playable characters to be chosen each with a different adventure in the game; Matthew Faulkner the Egyptologist and an Occultist.

Keith Hook programmed the game engine SIGNOS (Scripted Interactive Graphic Novel Operating System).

[2] The lead artist Pete Lyon visited Egypt before he worked on the graphics to implement realism in the game.

The self-proclaimed 'epic cinematic adventure' is more like an exciting chapter in a book that makes you want more - only to discover that you've reached the last page.