#deduction games

You're trying to fill in the family tree of the royal family of Trevosa, this fictional kingdom with great worldbuilding, figuring out people's titles and epithets while piecing together a timeline of events from documents you can only find by searching for keywords. The twist is that those keywords are untranslated cultural terms from the Trevosan language. So you're not just trying to figure out who's who and what happened, you're also having to decipher bits and pieces of this fictional language as you go. It's fucking awesome.

But most importantly, the writing and puzzle design are top notch. The worldbuilding is great, the writing balances a lot of tones and voices convincingly, it provokes great 'aha!' moments, there were several times that new information recontextualised old information and I had to go back and reconsider what I had assumed, and it strikes just the right balance between giving you paths forward without just holding your hand and making it obvious.

As a big fan of this genre of puzzle deduction game, I can honestly say this little game jam game is one of the best to ever do it.

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I had a fun time with Confidential Killings during Next Fest, and the demo is available now on Steam!

As always, any views on other platforms are super appreciated💙

YouTube.

Instagram.

If John wants to play easter games, so can I. Only that my games are much more educational and mentally stimulating.  So this is the first part of my easter mystery, tell me what the structure depicted below is. And yes, it has something to do with easter. 

Part two of the mystery will be posted as soon as someone reblogs with the correct answer. If no one knows it I might provide clues.

(Disclaimer: English isn’t my first language/ mother tongue/ however you say it)

Of course I had to develop and hone my deduction skills over the years. Even as a child, I already had a certain tendency to know things that other people didn't, but that is probably a family thing, as my siblings were even better at it. To improve my skills I did have to practice, and I learned much from my older brother with deduction games. Everyone has to start at some point and practice to improve. Of course some people are naturally gifted, but even they have to put work into their skills to further improve. Deducing people based on objects is a good exercise, but maybe you could modify your game idea. Change the game so you do not find the person who it belongs to, but just receive the object itself or a picture of the object and then you have to make deductions about the person based on the object, but not knowing who they are. A deduction game I could suggest is to deduce someone based on a picture they sent you. Like of their desk, of their room, or a screenshot of their phone screen. I think there are some online groups like you mentioned where people provide such pictures, but be careful to not reveal too much about yourself. Another possible training ground could be Tumblr, going through people's blogs and deducing them based on what they post. Going outside and watching people pass by on the street or public transport, deducing them based on what you see, their clothes, their behaviour, et cetera. But sadly you will not be able to find out whether your deductions are correct, except if you walk up to people and ask them. But that does not turn out good in most of the cases, trust me. Maybe Youtube has some useful deduction games and exercises as well.

It is not only important to train your deductions, but also to train your observation and memory. Practice to think fast, make quick observations. Look at a picture for 20 seconds, memorise it, and then try to recount everything you saw. Build yourself a mind palace to be able to store information better, visualise things.

3:00pm

where am i?

All the Americans now asking me to deduce their location because they are the majority who are still awake, while most Europeans are already asleep.