Posted July 18, 2025 by ANTI-SIT Games
Long time watchers of this project will be aware that I took the game offline for a very long time so that I could work on the fundemental infrastructure of the game. What is undoubtedly less apparent is that I completely upended the systems all that so that it would make churning out future chapters significantly easier and more watertight. The current chapter ("Food") is full of bugs because it still contains some of my original spaghetti code but subsequent chapters are a lot more watertight in terms of their coding because I just had to copy/paste a working template.
When I play the current build of the game, I feel a slight sense of deflation because I know that the world presented hasn't yet 'opened up'. What I mean is, I think the feeling I'm going for of a rather open, living world, only works when a certain amount of content and choice is present. For that same reason, I find I get excited to think of adding new cases and content, although will only do so when I'm ready.
Today, I'd like to show some of the chapters I'm playing with just to give an idea of where I'm going.
The answers for an important exam have been stolen and your only option is to tolerate the company of teenagers. (This one is called Elon, which is sadly very common among HK kids these days.)
Example 2 -Mahjong Cheater!
You're asked to take part in a game of Mahjong to try to find out who is cheating and how.... WITH DEADLY CONSEQUENCES>!
Example 3 - "Fame"
The wife of a hero of 1970's Kung Fu movies is murdered and the only way to get to the bottom of the mystery is to watch his films very carefully....
Example 4 - "Beauty"
The CEO of a snake-oil/cosmetics company is kidnapped along with her daughter and held in a mystery location for several days until the mother is randomly released. Your task is to track down the location the daughter is being held....
WITH DEADLY CONSEQUEN (You get the idea.)
Example 5 - "The perv's wallet"
This is one of my favourites because it breaks the normal structure: You receive a wallet from a stranger and need to use the bits and pieces inside it to calculate to whom it belongs and then use the map system to track them down WITH DEADLY CONSEWA
Anyway.
Example 6 - The dating app. (Valentines special.)
This one I haven't started, but I think about excitedly: A client tells you of a mystery man found on a dating app who has been stealing from women and asks you to track them down. You do this by creating a profile on the dating app and trying out different combinations of clothing, pose, selfie etc to attract different men to interogate on dates. WITH DEADLY CONSEQUENCES. (I had one left in me.)
Anyway, that's all. I just want to note - It might be quite easy to see this and think "Liam is biting off more than he can chew". I understand that from the outside, that's how it might seem. However, from my position it's actually the opposite. The real work was the infrastructure of coding; the logicistics. The actual writing and drawing aren't that difficult.
Let me leave you with this guy. Hope you enjoy interviews with Thatcher-worshipping serial killers.