The Dead Woman's Gambit
People often pray to Lady Luck. But what if she genuinely felt bad for you? Maybe something happened even outside her control.
Play as Emmeline Morgan trying to figure out the truth behind her own murder with the help of Lady Luck aka The Shadow of Chaos aka Cay. Investigate the crime scene and figure out what happened step by step.
This game was made for the 15th Pirate Software GameJam. It is currently not finished (I'm working on it). Even still, I think the story's main mystery CAN be figured out with some out-of-the-box thinking. Have fun playing!
GDD: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16W94MJVLPNIIUraRdj25cFpas9-FYbg2s31XRLCuUKU/...
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Nice game. Nice minimalist style too. Hope you continue with it, I’m curious to see how it ends.
I'm not the audience for this, I hate visual novel
The investigation part was okay even if there is a lot of handholding
There was clearly much efforts in the artstyle
Your mom.
Jokes aside (or is it?) I loved the game. Very nice art style, sound effects and music. At first I thought it was a suicide, but why would Emmeline want to get rid of the murder weapon? So that wasn't it. Can't wait to see the ending!
Really cool and stylish, I love the story concept! Would love to see this get completed, I'm way too invested now lol
Very cool
i love the music.
Nice game.Dig the art style and music.
The text sound is satisfying
Just got into the main room, so I should say that I'm digging the style! Does anyone elseI think that Cay looks similar to pythias (or whatever the spelling is) from Hello Charlotte?
This is super cool, reminds me of something like that card game black stories.
I could'nt solve it though, I kinda got stuck after clicking on everything and trying to present everything as evidence, so maybe I got softlocked? Or I am just missing some out of the box thing.
I also wonder if you can actually do anything with the phone, or the shopping list. Can't seem to get either to progress, not sure if theres a way to do anything with that currently.
Overall, really cool game, hope to see an update on this! BTW: Your GDD is set to private, so noone can actually see that, in case you didn't notice
Omg thanks for the gdd thing, I didn't even notice
Very cool! I love the styling, and the story is super compelling.
Spoilers: Okay, after going through the options I feel quite confused but I'll try to make my analysis on the mystery (I could be misremembering things because there's so much evidence told but not all of the runes were saved on the notebook):
Runes: Are runes absolute truths? Cay seems to be either unhelpful or lie straight up, so I am perplexed on whether there *actually* is everything to figure out the mystery.
Emmeline: she is a germophobe, it's not possible for her to forget and leave to clean up so many items in the two rooms. Therefore, I get a sense that the reconstruction of the scene is intentionally incorrect (Like Cay may not be able to add or remove things, but instead age them or disorganized them would bypass this restriction). When Cay says "They aren't though" when asking about the closet and doesn't use a rune, and also says "You couldn't see them" when asking about the bathroom, which means the killer has got to have been on either place.
Where did the knife go?: I wondered that the knife could have been broken down into the blade and wood handle then flushed down the toilet. Therefore the knife left through different means than doors nor windows.
The killer: I am so confused on whether the killer was actually a proper human being or what, since they managed to leave a crime scene without using windows nor doors. Like did they straight up punch a hole through the roof or what? I'm at a loss on this one.
Ok, so I can't really update the game for a few days, but there ARE some bugs. For example, the bathroom is incorrectly interpreted as "phone" when trying to select it in the last question. It was supposed to deny that anything was flushed down the toilet.
Another thing: I'll probably change some of the incorrect answers to include runes and things like that. That being said, this is only a demo and I am working on the continuation of the story. The runes are absolute truths, they are basically red truths from umineko.
But just for fun, here are some completely correct runes:
RUNE OF NEON: The killer is a human being.
RUNE OF MERCURY: No one is or was hiding in the bathroom or closet.
RUNE OF OSMIUM: Items in the rooms are exactly as they were at the time of the murder apart from small adjustments to their positions. (eg. Act as if the locations are all correct, it doesn't matter)
I will definitely be adding all of the runes to the notebook don't worry. Also keep in mind, the mystery CAN be solved. It's just that this is a demo and I don't really encourage you to actively think about it. When I release the next update, it will probably feature a lot QOL.
Thank you. I'll keep that in mind and wait for when it's updated more