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How to commit murder inside a locked room
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Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room
#12See Vanity Fair's excellent long-form article "The Body in Room 348" for a real life example! https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/05/true-crime-elegan...
Without reading mode, that site is unusable. All those animated ads and banners are the blink tag all over again.
Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room
#13That just gave me a crazy idea for a game, based on some similar books I've read online. Make a game where, say, you revive every time and your goal is to survive some set period of time but it's a mystery how to do so as many things are out to kill you. Say you have X hours before a large bomb will wipe out your city or whatever and several folks are waiting to kill you in the mean time or such and the goal is basic…
You might find the Sexy Brutale an interesting game, since it is also centered around a time loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sexy_Brutale
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#14That just gave me a crazy idea for a game, based on some similar books I've read online. Make a game where, say, you revive every time and your goal is to survive some set period of time but it's a mystery how to do so as many things are out to kill you. Say you have X hours before a large bomb will wipe out your city or whatever and several folks are waiting to kill you in the mean time or such and the goal is basic…
Edge of Tomorrow builds on a similar premise (Tom Cruise explores a decision tree): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/
>Tom Cruise explores a decision tree
This is the most HN comment I've read all year!
Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room
#15The running series of Death in Paradise (it is rather mundane but a welcome caribbean distraction for us northerners in those dark winter months) featured such a murder in episode four and I shall not spoil it, only say that I didn't expect that ending.
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#16That just gave me a crazy idea for a game, based on some similar books I've read online. Make a game where, say, you revive every time and your goal is to survive some set period of time but it's a mystery how to do so as many things are out to kill you. Say you have X hours before a large bomb will wipe out your city or whatever and several folks are waiting to kill you in the mean time or such and the goal is basic…
The plot of one of my favourite games, Outer Wilds (not to be confused with Outer Worlds), is about being stuck in a solar system where you die (avoiding spoilers intentionally) every 20 minutes and you have to figure out why.
One of my favourite games, the sense of mystery and the high stakes of the plot made it very intriguing to me.
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#17That just gave me a crazy idea for a game, based on some similar books I've read online. Make a game where, say, you revive every time and your goal is to survive some set period of time but it's a mystery how to do so as many things are out to kill you. Say you have X hours before a large bomb will wipe out your city or whatever and several folks are waiting to kill you in the mean time or such and the goal is basic…
Thats sort of the opposite of the game just released - Deathloop
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#18> The final third of the book was wrapped in a thin, paper seal—and came with a promise that the purchase price would be refunded if the book was returned with the seal unbroken.
A freemium model of sorts.
Rather than book samples and movie trailers it would be interesting to be able to start a story and decide a fraction of the way in wether or not to purchase the entire content.
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#19That just gave me a crazy idea for a game, based on some similar books I've read online. Make a game where, say, you revive every time and your goal is to survive some set period of time but it's a mystery how to do so as many things are out to kill you. Say you have X hours before a large bomb will wipe out your city or whatever and several folks are waiting to kill you in the mean time or such and the goal is basic…
Edge of Tomorrow builds on a similar premise (Tom Cruise explores a decision tree): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/
Palm Springs tackles this subject matter as well, but as a comedy:
https://imdb.com/title/tt9484998/
And of course, Groundhog Day:
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#20> The final third of the book was wrapped in a thin, paper seal—and came with a promise that the purchase price would be refunded if the book was returned with the seal unbroken. A freemium model of sorts. Rather than book samples and movie trailers it would be interesting to be able to start a story and decide a fraction of the way in wether or not to purchase the entire content.
That's basically Kindle book samples, you get the first chapter or so free and then hit a purchase button.