Game in a Week #4: Mystery
So someone pointed me at an entry to the recent Ludum Dare entry, The Butler Did It by Surrealix. Butler is another interpretation of the “randomised murder mystery” genre, like my own Nicholas Spratt project which I’ve been poking at on and off for the better part of a month, now. While I was unable…
So it’s been a bit since I released The Incomparable Deductions of Police Constable Sir Nicholas Spratt — The Early Years, and I think I’m ready to do the post-mortem. What went right: Managed to pare down “randomly generated murder mystery” into a concept simple enough to actually be implemented in a week, but still…
Well, as I’d warned, it’s not really as polished as most of the games that I put together, but that’s because there’s a whole lot more going on under the hood in this one! And I have to apologise in advance, but I’ve taken a sudden fancy to baroque game names, and so I’ve given…
So, with approximately twelve hours to go, here’s the state of play: Stuff that works: Seven guests have dinner together in the mansion (staticly declared floorplan). The soon-to-be murder weapon is in the Study. The evening’s events are randomly generated. At some point during the night, someone takes and conceals the murder weapon, when they’re…
I just spent the last five minutes tracking down a bug which resulted in a fresh corpse occasionally (about one time in three) wandering into another room after being killed. Algorithmically generated content can be really tricky to get right, even when it’s as simple as this! :)