Luxor: Quest for the Afterlife

Luxor: Quest for the Afterlife
Also known as: Luxor 4 Developer: MumboJumbo Publisher: MumboJumbo Platform: Windows Released in US: November 4, 2008 Released in EU: November 6, 2009 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text.

Luxor: Quest for the Afterlife brings the setting of marble-popping adventure from ancient Egypt to the whole Silk Road, telling a story of the stolen soul jars, narrated by the queen Nefertiti.
Gameplay-wise, it's basically Luxor 3 but in a non-linear progress.

Luxor 3 Leftovers

Since the game is developed using the engine and the gameplay elements of Luxor 3, there is no surprises that there are leftovers from that game.

Achievement

//#AchievementReflectorMatches "Master of Reflection Achievement!"
//#25matchesusingreflectors "25 matches or more using reflectors!"

Even though the reflector gimmick didn't return from the previous game, the strings for the achievement related to it do exist in the text file /locale/strings/English.txt, and are the only ones highlighted with double slashes at the beginning - suggesting that it may be initially considered to return but was scrapped later in development.
The image "reserved" for this achievement in /gfx/UI/TreasureRoom/ (hence its file name) is reused for the achievement newly-added in the game, "Skilled Traveler".

Level Names

The whole list of Luxor 3 level names is left over in the text file /locale/strings/English.txt.

// ========== LUXOR 3 LEVEL NAMES ==========
#ancientroad "Road of Ancients"
#anubis "The Well Of Anubis"
#apep "Apep's Waters"
#buried "Buried in the Sands of Time"
#cargo "Precious Cargo"
#construction "Stone By Stone"
#crossingthenile "Crossing The Nile"
#draped "Behind The Curtain"
#fish "Royal Catch"
#gates "Gates Of The Underworld"
#geb "Geb The Grower"
#hall "Hypostyle Hall"
#horus "Paths Of Horus"
#isis "The Isis Knot"
#lotus "Lotus Bloom"
#meow "Here Kitty, Kitty"
#nut "Among The Stars"
#onslaught "Onslaught"
#osiris "Osiris Sleeps"
#ra "The Temple Of Ra"
#sekhmet "Sekhmet's Armory"
#set "Rancor of Set"
#sobekpool "Sobek's Wading Pool"
#thoth "Scribblings Of The Scribe"
#treasurehunt "Treasure Hunter"
#vineoflife "Vine Of Life"
#watergarden "Pharaoh's Water Garden"
#wealth "Wealth of Kings"

#GebTitle "Geb's Good Earth"
#NutTitle "The Serenity of Nut"
#HorusTitle "The Crown of Horus"
#RaTitle "Ra Ascending"
#IsisTitle "Pawn of Isis"
#OsirisTitle "Osiris Reborn"
#ApepTitle "Apep's Domain"
#ThothTitle "Wisdom of Thoth"
#AnubisTitle "Anubis the Jackal"
#SekhmetTitle "Sekhmet's Pride"
#SetTitle "Rancor of Set"

#gebsurvival "Guardian of Geb"
#nutsurvival "Guardian of Nut"
#horussurvival "Guardian of Horus"
#rasurvival "Guardian of Ra"
#isissurvival "Guardian of Isis"
#osirissurvival "Guardian of Osiris"
#apepsurvival "Guardian of Apep"
#thothsurvival "Guardian of Thoth"
#anubissurvival "Guardian of Anubis"
#sekhmetsurvival "Guardian of Sekhmet"





#advcrossing1 "Horus Crosses The Nile"
#advcrossing2 "Ra Crosses The Nile"
#advcrossing3 "Isis Crosses The Nile"
#advcrossing4 "Osiris Crosses The Nile"
#advcrossing5 "Apep Crosses The Nile"
#advcrossing6 "Thoth Crosses The Nile"
#advcrossing7 "Anubis Crosses The Nile"
#advcrossing8 "Sekhmet Crosses The Nile"
#advcrossing9 "Set Crosses The Nile"

Unused text

ProfileCreateNew

From the text file /locale/strings/English.txt:

#ProfileCreateNew "You are descended from my mortal father, the great Vizier Ay. He was the only one that my husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten, trusted to be his chief advisor, and now you are the only one I trust to retrieve my artifacts and canopic jars.\n\nLet your name be known!"

Comparing it to the other similar strings related to the profile screen, this is likely was going to be shown as a pop-up box, immediately after the intro cutscene. Instead, only the last sentence is shown on the top of the tombstone from the file /gfx/UI/ProfileCreate_background.png, with a narration of the last sentence following it.

Easter Eggs?

#ProfileAssignRandomName "Your name will be \"%s\", which means \"%s.\""
#SutenHamu "Suten Hamu"
#ExplainSutenHamu "Royal Worker"
#ShaiRefer "Shai-refer"
#ExplainShaiRefer "Good Luck"
#Metit "Metit"
#ExplainMetit "Righteous"
#Mshai "Mshai"
#ExplainMshai "Traveler"
#Akhom "Akhom"
#ExplainAkhom "Eagle"
#Afrikaisi "Afrikaisi"
#ExplainAfrikaisi "From the Egyptian hills"

According to these strings from /locale/strings/English.txt, at some point of the development, entering certain names as profile names would also show their meanings in ancient Egyptian. It is unknown that it was supposed to remain as an easter egg or it was used solely for debugging.

Unused Graphics

The folder /maps/GN_09/ shows a "classic" layout that is completely unused. According to /locale/strings/English.txt, it was entitled "Food for Thut".