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Detective Game Design Problems

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Re: Detective Game Design Problems

#11

Post by jtsiskin »

ramses0 wrote: post #7
rgovostes wrote: post #2

It does irk me how brainless puzzles in games have become. Two games that come to mind are Skyrim (where the puzzles you face are basically "rotate these stones until they match what is shown above them on the wall") and Drake's Fortune (upon encountering a puzzle, the protagonist immediately says "hmm, this looks familiar" and insists you open up your journal where he has been sketching the exact solution between gu…

https://the-spoiler.com/RPG/Dynamix/betrayal.at.krondor.1.ht... Buckets, barrels, baskets, cans; What must you fill with empty hands? ...not I18N-able, requires some thought, but really satisfying when you can get the answer.

I would have guessed “gloves”, but that’s i18n-able

Re: Detective Game Design Problems

#14

Post by Dgaduin »

Return of the Obra Dinn is probably one of the best detective games out there and I'm really sad there is no replay value in it - it has been the only game to actually make me feel like a Sherlock Holmes persona, while deducing things.

Re: Detective Game Design Problems

#15

Post by rgovostes »

jtsiskin wrote: post #11
ramses0 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://the-spoiler.com/RPG/Dynamix/betrayal.at.krondor.1.ht... Buckets, barrels, baskets, cans; What must you fill with empty hands? ...not I18N-able, requires some thought, but really satisfying when you can get the answer.

I would have guessed “gloves”, but that’s i18n-able

The particular cadence and a near-rhyme of the riddle are hard to translate. An expression like "empty hands" may not work. You could get a confusing literal translation, or an uninteresting question stripped of its poetic quality.

Re: Detective Game Design Problems

#16

Post by dllthomas »

rgovostes wrote: post #15
jtsiskin wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would have guessed “gloves”, but that’s i18n-able

The particular cadence and a near-rhyme of the riddle are hard to translate. An expression like "empty hands" may not work. You could get a confusing literal translation, or an uninteresting question stripped of its poetic quality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Ton_beau_de_Marot
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