Probably the best straight detective game here. The only thing is that I feel that it was a bit easy to find the killer since like everyone had an alibi but two people one of whom almost died themselves. I only struggled to prove the motive since I presumed that the killer would want to publish the research to get enough cred to land a job in their field, but maybe that was just me overthinking things.
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Ah thank you! Yeah I was trying to balance how obvious it should be who the killer is and probably could have done better. Granted, this is the first mystery I've ever written, so it's likely a more experienced mystery writer would've been able to work that out a bit quicker. But I really appreciate your comment, it helps to know what was too hard/too easy, so hopefully I can improve in the future!