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:

Additional assets used:

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...

Updated 16 days ago
Published 27 days ago
StatusIn development
PlatformsHTML5
AuthorsJosep Valls, Otter 841, Evgeni Doudar
GenrePuzzle
Made withGodot
TagsDetective, Godot, High Score, Mystery, Open Source

Comments

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I really enjoyed the game; it’s great fun! I’m from the Get & Give Back Jam and wanted to share a quick suggestion. You might consider adding a minimum number of actions required before a player can make a guess. It took me several tries, but I managed to identify the culprit purely by random chance within 2 seconds. This could help ensure guesses are more likely based on deduction rather than luck. Great work overall!

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Wow, you have only a 1 in 24 chance of guessing without asking questions (unless you use cheats, which is one of the wildcards), you are very lucky, consider buying some lottery 😋

Joke aside, that’s a good suggestion. I will probably remove the cheats and add different clues after the jam ends.

Do you have a submission? I’d love to reciprocate.

omg this is amazing! i keep on failing, but its fun to play!!

Thanks for playing. There is a pattern that you can exploit to find the liars. Once you have figured out who lies, then it is much easier since you just have to do the opposite of what they tell you.

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GREAT GAME! :D

Very glad you liked it! There is so much more we want to do, stay tuned for updates in the coming months.