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steptoe:

--- Quote ---Nice game but for the life of me I couldn't figure out who did it. I thought it was the wife and the guy that worked in the garden.
--- End quote ---

The clues are there. Non human hair in fuse box is a clue to the guilty.

Cheers

CosmoQueen:
I'm still lost LOL.

steptoe:
I'm sure trial and error will get you there in the end...

 8-)

bustee:
So, I played it and I have to say that it is not very well written :(

There are almost no interactive choices you can make and the suspects just tell you their stories, sometimes even triggered by strange events. I think Murder Mystery is very intense on writing and you have to give a reason why some people cannot have been the murderers. In the end you just know more about 2 of the suspects, but that does not mean that you have any evidence against them. You should at least give reason as to why the others could not have been the murderers.

To give you an example of what I mean: Assume the wife and brother were not the murderers, then they could still lie, because they have an affair and spent the time together in, say, the shed. Then you have to discover that to exclude them from the list of suspects. This would be a reasonable way of striking suspects off the list. However, this is something that shouldn't be unveiled by itself. Rather by long talks that ask something of the detective.

Sorry, but I think that Murder Mysteries are rather hard to write, because you have to provide a vast amount of possible conversations and you also have to make a sensible story.
I don't find it very sensible, for example, that he was able to climb out of the window, but she didn't have enough time to do so; yet she has enough time to be found in a state of shock near her husband (where she would have had to movebefore, etc.) If you want to hint that, then the Butler should have said something the like. I'm sorry, but I think that the murder and the stories of the others have to written  very precisely and then it is still a hell of a job to get the dialogues. But otherwise Murder Mystery doesn't make much sense. In your case, all basically comes down to trial and error to find the proper suspects.

slasher:
I agree,

I found the game ok but as you indicated: this type of game needs careful story and dialog planning.

It has some good scripting techniques but in some areas lacks polish.

All in all it has a potential and i'm sure that he has learnt a lot and no doubt will show this in later games.

I found it enjoyable even though it could be vastly improved to a higher standard by more thought out dialogs and visual display but the idea was there.

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