What was that I said about posting at the start of the month? Let's try again in March.
I promised to fill you in on what I'm up to. A detective game set at Forsaken Edge, yes, but can I give you more details?
Well, Game Maker's Toolkit has a nice video where he analyses different kinds of detective games. One of those is what he calls "contradiction-style" - you know, like Ace Attorney stuff. That's also the one he calls his least favourite, as you can just brute force them without understanding.
Anyway, that's the one I'm doing. 😊
The game is going to be a series of cases that you explore Castle of the Red Prince/Toby's Nose style. Meanwhile, the no-good NPCs are lying to you, until you can match the right piece of evidence to their dodgy statements.
The problem with all this is that I am the "What if you could talk to a creature?" person, not the air-tight logical plot person.
That's why I'm planning on getting beta testers involved as I complete each case, so that people can point out my own contradictions before they get too baked into the game. I may start some kind of developer thread on intfiction.org at some point to begin drumming up interest, but it feels like I have a way to go before I have anything worth showing yet. We'll see.
