Welcome to the The Strand Academy for Young Girls.

The prestigious inter-academy debate competition is only three days away and the competition trophy has been stolen. The trophy cabinet showed no signs of forced entry, suggesting an inside job. If our rival institutions learn of this theft it would be a scandal.

You are enlisted to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of the prized trophy in this whodunit mystery game.

Gameplay:

• The objective of the game is to identify the person who stole the academy's thropy.
• There are 27 students in your class at the Strand Academy for Young Girls. 3 of them are your BFFs and you were together so you can trust them. The other 24 people are suspects.
• Drag a photo of a suspect into your phone to start a conversation with them. You will have a chance to ask a question to every suspect. Make them count.
• Gather information from suspects to find discrepancies and inconsistencies in their testimonies. Some of them will lie to keep the identity of the thief secret.
• Your BFFs can provide valuable information about who may be lying to you.
• You are free to drag and drop items and arrange your desk however you see fit.
  
• Once you narrow down the culprit, drag their picture to the culprit envelope to make an accusation.

Scoring:

• Climb to the top of the leaderboard by being the fastest to uncover the culprit.
• While you are at your desk, the time runs in real time.
• Asking a question over aphone call will always incur a 5 minute penalty so try to narrow down the culprit with the minimum amount of questions.
• Making an failed accusation will incur a 30 minute penalty so try to avoid them.

Controls:

• Click or tap any of the blue buttons.
• Use your mouse to drag and drop photos and notes.

Credits:

• Game design and programming by Josep Valls
• Visual and sound design and additional art by Otter 841
• Original soundtrack by Evgeni Doudar
• The character portraits are based on Sugary Life by Butter Milk and have been edited and extended by Otter 841.
• The source code is available here: https://github.com/josepvalls/secrets

Additional assets used:

• Super Dialogue Audio Pack by Dillon Becker. This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0
• https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/beige-wooden-textured-flooring-background_158...
• https://openclipart.org/detail/275373/touchscreenmobilephone
• https://clipart-library.com/clip-art/post-it-notes-transparent-25.htm
• https://pnghq.com/polaroid-frame-for-hop-clear-png-file
• https://freesvg.org/regular-folder
• https://freesound.org/people/mehraniiii/sounds/588234/
• https://freesound.org/people/florianreichelt/sounds/412427/
• https://freesound.org/people/bevibeldesign/sounds/315921/
• https://freesound.org/people/jordanielmills/sounds/654935/
• https://opengameart.org/content/various-sound-effects
• https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/hang-up_811481
• https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans
• https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Slab
• https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Shantell+Sans

Disclaimer:

This game is a work of fiction. The characters and their physical characteristics are generated for each playthrough, ensuring a unique experience every time. The diverse range of physical characteristics depicted in the game is designed purely to create distinct, identifiable characters that enable engaging gameplay. These characteristics carry no deeper meaning or implications beyond their function as visual gameplay elements. The randomized nature of character generation means that each new game presents a different set of suspects, ensuring that no particular group is consistently associated with any role in the narrative. We celebrate diversity and reject any biases.

Hints:

• A distinguished detective shouldn't need any hints but if you want to spoil the fun you can use some cheats.
• There are always 9 liars in every round.
• The culprit is always a liar.
• The liars will always lie and their lies may uncover critical information.
• All the liars have something in common. That something is determined randomly every round. That can be something about them, something they are wearing, something about their name...
• Whatever the liars have in common, your BFFs do not have it in common. It can be one of: hair color, skin color, accessory, shirt color, eye color, first name initial.

We had lots of fun making this game interesting and balancing challenging  deduction with fun guessing. We hope you enjoy it as well. Please leave some feedback so we can improve it! 

Bugs and Updates:

•  12/6/2024: The background music didn't loop properly.

Cheating:

Did you try using a famous detective's name? There are other ways to cheat...