When I woke up this morning, I started thinking about this game again.

Sure enough, I checked my old set of notes, and it's been exactly two years since I wrote the initial story outline. Two years filled with a lot of change in my life. And this game has been in the background all that time, coming together slowly through very intermittent bursts of energy.

It's been there in the back of my mind for all that time... Although, for most of the past year, it's sat untouched on my hard drive. I finished it, but I didn't know what to do with it. So now feels as good a time as any to put it to rest.

There are issues, for sure. It's hard to read the text. It's hard to understand what's going on. My writing skills sure aren't the best! And fundamentally, you could argue the core puzzle mechanic doesn't quite work with the story.

But, I'd like to say the game is at least ambitious. And it's hopefully unique.

More information
Published 1 day ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorWilliam Rous
GenrePuzzle
TagsMystery, Singleplayer, Text based
Average sessionDays or more

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Aprot7 hours ago

Hihi!

I am stuck on a few parts, those being (SPOILERS!):

- Finding number thirteen death scene, i know her name, just not the location.
- The relevance of scene 10-MA-5-6, there's still a gray number next to it.
- Finding the suspicous death and the hidden scene mentioned at 26.
- That weird hangman game.

Can you help?

Also, lovely game! I really enjoyed figuring all of this out, you really undersell it in the description. 

Especially figuring out who was where when was really fun, and the twist was fun to discover to of course.


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William Rous2 hours ago

Hi! Glad you enjoyed it!

It's a little tricky figuring out exactly what you're missing, but I'll try to give some clues... (SPOILERS!)

  • Are you missing a scene in 09? If so, hopefully you can work out who was there, and someone else comes in afterwards and discovers what happened... But it's also possible you've missed a sneaky scene in 12! (Try 'find 6'.)
  • I think the only other thing you're missing is the hidden scene mentioned in 26. It sounds like you've worked out who it involves (and in particular the first letter of their name!), but to figure out the location you'll need to work out who else they're related to (and who THAT person is related to) who might have mentioned something about where they could be...
  • If that doesn't make much sense, then it may be worth considering which of the deaths you've seen so far is 'suspicious', in that it doesn't quite fit with the others.
  • It's safe to ignore the hangman game.

Let me know if that's too vague or if I've misunderstood where you're at. I've tried to make the final puzzle as clear as I could, but it's still a lot to pull together in one go... In fact, the who, the where and the when are all pretty tricky to figure out! So let me know if anything doesn't make sense.

But thanks for your comment! It's lovely to know other people have enjoyed the game!

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