Since the first week of BCM300, Noah, Kris, Emily and I have had a very similar outlook on the various games we played. This has made the experience of creating a prototype, a much easier goal as we all quickly decided on the theme of ‘Murder/Mystery’. Hence, our game is called ‘Murder in the Hay.’
This game was mainly inspired by the game ‘The Resistance’, which we played a couple of weeks into the semester. We found that the rules and mechanics of this game became an inspiration for ours; the intensity, competitiveness and manipulation. The idea of having secret identities in The Resistance was a major component when thinking of the mechanics for our game prototype. The ‘spy’ in The Resistance has a similar quality to the ‘murderer’ in our game; where the players don’t know who the murderer is at the start of the game…
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