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Nice puzzle! I solved it quite smoothly without having to make random guesses (although assumptions were inevitable).

Nitpicks (or wishes):

- Personally, I wished that some of the victims would need to be identified by their behaviors / locations (besides the twins) / belongings.

- It'll be more realistic and interesting if more than one victims remained conscious longer and try to save themselves / protect significant others - like, large body mass is correlated with higher tolerance; and this could possibly leave more info than just forensics evidence.

- I thought the location/identity of the accelerant would be used to solve some question.

thistlestudios6 days ago

Thanks very much for your feedback. We basically agree with everything!

- Behaviors/locations: The clues might be a little faint, but we did try to implement this. If you look closely you will realize that, for instance, the "most likely to date a supermodel" person is unsurprisingly lying next to the good-looking girl. There are a couple of other examples, but maybe we need to make things more explicit. Thanks for pointing it out.

- Conscious for longer, etc: Yes, definitely. This would not be easy to implement within the current framework, but it's something for us to think about.

- Accelerant: Again, yes. The game was supposed to have an additional gameplay layer dealing with fire dynamics (working out where the fire started, how it spread, and so on). We just didn't have the time to implement it before the deadline. :)

Anyway, we look forward to further develop the game in the future. And your comments will certainly come in handy!

newtypex6 days ago

Thank you for replying and explaining!

And ah, I didn't realize the connection, partly because I could make it without this detail. But IMO, it feels too weak to be noticed and used for identification: (1) their distance isn't particularly close; (2) just staying together among the crowd while they were still conscious doesn't necessarily prove a relationship - they might happen to be dancing, chatting, or even fighting (unless it's a rendezvous in a small room); (3) if they are still interested in each other, they could have started dating long before the event. That said, if the vote says "marry a supermodel", and rings are found on their fingers, that seems to solve all these issues.

Anyways, I'm looking forward to the final version of the game :)

thistlestudios6 days ago

Noted. Thanks very much! :) :) :)

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