It’s really weird, sitting here and writing code for simulating what’s essentially a rather old-fashioned ideal of an Agatha Christie-style dinner party murder mystery, while listening to an old radio show “Night Watch”, which is basically a 1950s version of “Cops”, on the radio.. in this episode, the police were interrogating a murder suspect. (Who…

Well, the code’s finally to the point where the game can actually randomly generate a murder timeline. As it turns out, Bill killed Sam at approximately 12:15 AM, in the bathroom. Unsurprisingly, he used the Nondescript Murder Weapon(tm) to perform the dastardly deed. (When oh when will they learn that Nondescript Murder Weapons can be…

I’m finding myself growing more and more surprised at just how much code needs to be written for this mystery game, even as I continue to pare it back to make it achievable in the time limit, and just how little of the code actually puts anything visible up on screen. Here’s the current state…

Big weather here, the last twenty-four hours. Downed trees, cancelled public transport, and total lack of power. Which pretty much removed a day of development time on the Game in a Week. The power’s back now, though, and I’m back onto it!  With any luck, I’ll have some interesting screenshots soon!

And now for the bit that I didn’t have time to type out last night. :) Twisty Little Passages is a neat history of interactive fiction; the genre that has grown out of text adventures. I bought my hardback copy from a bookshop stall at GDC in 2005, and have to confess that I still…