NOTE: You WILL need a pen and paper for this! There are multiple possible scenarios.
Dastardly Holdings LLC is one of the biggest criminal organizations in the world. Their criminal dealings reach every corner of the globe.
However, they are far from the only criminal superpower. Recently, a deal between Dastardly Holdings and European Allied went south and the EA reps want blood. Rumor has it that DH will be sending a high-level rep to a dinner gathering with 4 other business superpowers.
You have been hired by European Allied to infiltrate the gathering dressed as a caterer, to discover which of the reps are from Dastardly Holdings, and to eliminate them
You must solve logic puzzles to figure out what sort of trap to set to discreetly eliminate your target, using their allergies against them.
I'm not entirely sure there's enough information to figure it all out, but I managed to guess right on the third step. Although now that I look, your third screenshot has the solution in it...
While it was an interesting concept, I tried to win several times now, even took out a pen and paper and took notes, talked with everyone and checked every coat pocket and piece of paper, but haven't won a single time even when I knew for certain who should have been given the clues. A "This is what you did and who you chose, this is who it was and what you should have done" sort of screen would have helped me see where I failed. The lack of a restart button is annoying, however it's not as annoying as the music.
Glad some people are enjoying it! There are 5 different scenarios here, so if it was too short for you, just play again and you'll likely get a different one. Which one you get is random.
Cool idea and nice-looking art. I felt like I was walking around a little too slowly and maybe my memory is just bad but when I had to go back to re-talk to people a few times I found it too time-consuming for my taste, and that prevented me from wanting to reload a bunch of different scenarios.
My logic puzzle skills are too atrophied for this game. I managed to win once using the bomb but sadly I failed to lure anyone into the cat trap. Very amusing scenario.
Clever use of theme, and nice that random scenarios were included. Might be interesting to add some sort of list to keep track of which ones were solved (or make it level based with different background stories for each case)
The theme interpretation is very original, and I liked the game mechanics as well, but it took me several tries to figure it out. And I'd like a list of organisations invited.
Graphics are good, but Z-ordering is messy sometimes. Al8o, "s" look8 like "8".
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I'm not entirely sure there's enough information to figure it all out, but I managed to guess right on the third step. Although now that I look, your third screenshot has the solution in it...
I'll give this quite a fair rating because I enjoyed it.
I'd also appreciate it if you people would just give my entry a go.
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=27330
All nighters were pulled throughout and I'd hate to see it go to waste.
I'd like to be able to skip the initial text once you fail and restart
I managed to win once using the bomb but sadly I failed to lure anyone into the cat trap. Very amusing scenario.
Graphics are good, but Z-ordering is messy sometimes. Al8o, "s" look8 like "8".