The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (video game) side-view, and are controlled by means of finger swipes on the touchscreen. The game also incorporates stealth levels and quick time events. The console versions of the game have a slightly different plot than the iOS, Android and Symbian^3 versions. A sea plane carrying Tintin (voiced by Adam Howden), Captain Haddock (Lewis Macleod), and Tintin's dog Snowy is flying through a thunderstorm when it is hit by lightning and crash lands in a desert, knocking all three unconscious. The game then flashbacks to the previous day, where Tintin and Snowy are looking around a market. Tintin purchases a model ship,
Tintin (character) uncomplicated as the story line". Hergé never explained why he chose Tintin as the character's name. He had previously made use of alliteration with the name of his previous character, Totor. Michael Farr speculated that Hergé had adopted it from Rabier's "Tintin le lutin", although Hergé insisted that he did not learn of this book until 1970. Farr commented that "Tintin" was probably the character's surname, as other characters, such as his landlady, occasionally refer to him as Mr. Tintin (as printed on his doorbell). Conversely, Assouline asserted that it could not be his surname, because he lacked a family.