At first, the amount of information can be overwhelming. You’re outside the room, watching like a voyeur, analyzing each character as you wait to spot someone moving with too much purpose as you try to catch a “tell” of a fumbled task. You’ve just fooled the Sniper (unless you’ve been “highlighted” as suspicious).įor the Sniper the job is just as difficult. You begin to feel the laser burning into your Spy’s head, and pause for a few heartbeats praying the Sniper moves on.
This may happen when you try to secretly contact the Double Agent, or you could in the middle of completing a task when the laser-pointer from the Sniper washes over your character! All of a sudden, you don’t know if you’ve been caught, even if you feel confident that you blended in perfectly.
The first time the laser from the Sniper stops on your Spy, the game's complexity will make perfect sense. In addition, you can quickly lose your cool as you question whether your movements look more like a human’s or a computer’s. However, remaining undetected can be somewhat complicated, as it requires moving around like an AI-controlled character and blending in with the other partygoers. Completing these tasks without being detected earns you a victory. In SpyParty, you enter the party as a Spy with a list of tasks that range from following an AI-controlled character and flirting with them, to swapping out some of the priceless statues. At first glance the idea seems simple, but after playing through your first game, you will quickly discover a deeper psychological battle raging on just beneath the surface. Two more are half done, Poison Drink and Steal Plans"), three game types ("Call Your Shot, where the Spy has to complete N missions and the Sniper knows which ones (the missions and N depend on the map and skill levels), Subset, where the Spy has to complete N of M missions chosen in advance, and the Sniper only knows the M missions, and Any Subset, which is like Subset, but where the Spy can pick the missions opportunistically as he or she plays"), and 20 or so characters ("all the ugly prototype art everyone loves to hate.") There will be a lobby for text-chatting and primitive matchmaking, with more traditional matchmaking services being added as the beta continues.SpyParty, an indie game designed by Chris Hecker, has a simple premise - one player takes the role of the Spy in the middle of a cocktail party with a set of tasks to complete the other player is the Sniper whose only goal is to identify the Spy, and take them out.
"It will consist of three maps (think: party rooms), six missions ("Bug Ambassador, Contact Double Agent, Transfer Microfilm, Swap Statue, Seduce Target, and Inspect Statues. Sounds like it has a good variety of gameplay with just the early beta, and you get the full game when it comes out. Trust me.Īnyway, the concept is unique enough that I'm down for $15.
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