<P> Dark Parables is a casual game series originally developed by Blue Tea Games, and by Eipix Entertainment from the eighth installment onwards . The games are distributed by Big Fish Games . They are available for PC, Mac OS, iOS and Android devices . The series features' Hidden Object' scenes where, in order to progress through a game, the player must find all the pieces that make up a certain item to be used as a' cause and effect' in another area of the game . Every game in the series is based around a different fairy tale, with some overlap between games, there is also some divergence from the series' continuity in storylines (especially after Eipix Entertainment took up the franchise). </P> <P> There have been thirteen games in the Dark Parables series to date . In each installment the player plays as "The Fairytale Detective", a detective who is dispatched to exotic locations to investigate reports of disturbances of suspected / confirmed fairytale nature . Although in the games the player is simply addressed as "Detective", the appellation "The Fairytale Detective" is used for the first time in the third installment, and again in the sixth and tenth installment . </P> <P> Owner and creative director of Blue Tea Games, Steven Zhao, stated in an interview that inspirations for Dark Parables were the comic book series Fables and casual game Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst . </P> <P> Dark Parables: Curse of Briar Rose is the first installment in the Dark Parables franchise and was released on March 11, 2010 . Set in Edinburgh, Scotland, the player takes on the role of The Detective to investigate and discover the true tale of the real Sleeping Beauty, and save her from the disembodied spirit of the evil sorceress who originally cursed her, and who now needs a new body and has her sights set on Briar Rose's . After Briar Rose is reawakened, she tells you of the "fabled Frog Prince, who still walks amongst us to this day", setting up events for the following game, The Exiled Prince . </P>

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