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Okay, I guess I will try to enter if I can finish the game in time. Here is what I have so far...

You were abducted from your home in the middle of the night. You wake up in an unfamiliar room with no recollection of how you got there. "Welcome to The Challenge," a strange voice announces from a speaker mounted near the ceiling in one corner of the room. "You are part of an experiment designed to study human nature. You will be tested and challenged in many ways. To survive the challenge, you must find all the clues and solve all the puzzles hidden within these walls. But there is a catch...."

You listen with growing unease and disbelief as the voice continues. "There are seven of you. Seven players in this game. All of you have murdered someone. You thought you got away with it. Thought you were so smart... But no one is smarter than The Master. As part of the challenge, you must find out the circumstances of each murder. But first, you must survive The Test. Find the Green Door downstairs and gather in front of it. Let the games begin...."

So, how does it sound so far? Does it sound like something you would want to play? Comments and feedback welcome...

Awesome sauce! Took me a little while to figure out, but I just created a map of the house... woohoo! How does this look? ViewMap

Sounds cool. Good luck!

Thank you!

I can't view the map of the house right now because of a library filter, but it sounds pretty amazing that you put that much effort into a 10-day storygame! Sounds like a good setting for incorporating a series of puzzles.

Thanks. Hopefully, I can finish it in time. I'm also planning for an inventory, but I've never made one before... still kinda new. I really want to have a good entry though. :)

And the map is just a simple color-coded floorplan of the house I made on a spreadsheet. Just took me awhile to get it converted to an image lol.

Wow! That was harder than I thought. The skeleton for my game is in place, and all the puzzles are set up. It has a very simple inventory, but not sure if I will keep it as you don't really need it or use it during gameplay. Mostly just there for players to reference numbers on the map for the puzzle...

Anways, it is 7/80 pages complete. The final puzzle is extemely difficult to solve... hope y'all enjoy it when I finish. Now, just have to go fill in the pages. :)

Well, after a little set back this morning due to a scripting issue I somehow missed, I am going to start adding more of the story to my "skeleton' game...

my absolute favorite kind of mystery.! ^_^

 

I think you will like this one, if I can finish it in time. Even though the final riddle is very hard, I thought the game was too basic. So now I have added items that you will need to use and about 10 riddles, 7 of which you will need to figure out the solutions to, in order to solve the final riddle... sound fun? XD

Sounds like some unholy mix of Agatha Christie, Dangan Rompa, and Zero Escape. All of those are good, so I'd play it!

Yeah it's all just random ideas that I threw together, based loosely off several novels and movies I've seen over the years. I'm not usually good at puzzles and such, well writing them like this anyway... But I love a challenge more than anything else, so I wanted to put my best effort into it. :)

The story reminds me a fair bit of Battle Royale, but the 'murder mystery' element is a nice twist. I like it!

Thanks!

XD more like "doubt" or Judge" than battle royale. 

I've been sick the last few days.... hopefully I can finish this game in time.

Almost done... now have to make sure all the links work properly and check for grammar/spelling mistakes. Isn't as good as it possibly could have been, but I still think it will be a good entry. Hope y'all enjoy it when I publish it, hopefully sometime later today...

Yes, finally!! Well, it's done... Hope y'all like it! It may be kinda hard...
Final page count: 88

*Questions: If it becomes apparent that it is too hard, should I make a thread with clues for the judges to use???*

Also, for some reason the text size varies, even though I set it as important in the global script...??

You could have a thread to help people who are stuck in your game, sure. Well done on finishing your game too! As for scripting, I know next to nothing about that, sorry.

Thanks!

Aaaaahhh! My eyes.... Lol. Haven't read it yet but he description page look freaking awesome!

Too many complaints, so it has been changed... *pout*

Sorry, guys... I found a few more mistakes, and I'm going to unpublish the game one more time. Hope this doesn't inconvience anyone. I am also going to try to add a journal for recording the riddles, as the game is difficult and no one has been able to get the high score...

Update: Done! That took too long... (I don't plan on making anymore changes.)

Thank you very much for making the links a much easier to read dark blue rather than bright lime green. It really improves the playing experience a lot.

Still haven't figured out how to beat it though...so I guess it really is earning its 7/8 difficulty score.

Also, you might want to check the scripting for the links to the rooms, because if you explore them all the first time they're available (even though some shouldn't have unlocked riddles yet), they don't appear the second go-round after you go upstairs. Unless that's intentional?

It was intentional. I love when I have to solve difficult puzzles, myself. I relish the challenge lol. I just wanted to make a game for anyone else who may agree with me... And yes, I think the story difficulty level is dead-on. It does seem to be pretty hard as no one has beaten it yet... (at least that I know of)