So, with approximately twelve hours to go, here’s the state of play: Stuff that works: Seven guests have dinner together in the mansion (staticly declared floorplan).  The soon-to-be murder weapon is in the Study. The evening’s events are randomly generated.  At some point during the night, someone takes and conceals the murder weapon, when they’re…

I just spent the last five minutes tracking down a bug which resulted in a fresh corpse occasionally (about one time in three) wandering into another room after being killed. Algorithmically generated content can be really tricky to get right, even when it’s as simple as this! :)

It’s really weird, sitting here and writing code for simulating what’s essentially a rather old-fashioned ideal of an Agatha Christie-style dinner party murder mystery, while listening to an old radio show “Night Watch”, which is basically a 1950s version of “Cops”, on the radio.. in this episode, the police were interrogating a murder suspect. (Who…

Well, the code’s finally to the point where the game can actually randomly generate a murder timeline. As it turns out, Bill killed Sam at approximately 12:15 AM, in the bathroom. Unsurprisingly, he used the Nondescript Murder Weapon(tm) to perform the dastardly deed. (When oh when will they learn that Nondescript Murder Weapons can be…

I’m finding myself growing more and more surprised at just how much code needs to be written for this mystery game, even as I continue to pare it back to make it achievable in the time limit, and just how little of the code actually puts anything visible up on screen. Here’s the current state…