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Jan-4-2008 00:22

This question is mainly for people who have had a scripted mystery published on the site. How much of your original mystery is visible in the edited version? Would you say that your mystery is mostly intact after editing or are we talking Count of Monte Cristo film version? If anyone can give me examples of things that were changed, I would really appreciate it. I've played every scripted mystery in London, Shanghai, and New York for reference.

Jan-4-2008 07:11

* first para so I wasn't the 'first' set of eyes...

This in itself is worth mentioning. SHARING your mystery with others, so you can get an opinion from people you kinda know and maybe trust a bit more than an anonymous editor can be a good way to get the SM up to scratch and minimise the chances of having to spend too much time on the chopping err editing board :)

mmm grammarmamatical.

Jan-4-2008 09:01

Yep SS only made very sensible suggestions about Miss Villages Fate (Origionaly entiteld Miss Village's Fate causes her to miss the village fete... the play on words was the inspiration behind the opening scenes.).

If you story is good (and the new share with freinds feature should help you iron out the kinks) then very little will be cut or changed.

Jan-4-2008 11:56

Heh. Yeah, forgot to say that sharing with friends and such before submitting will help a lot.

And if not, just knock yourself out making sure it is near perfection before submitting like I did. :D

Jan-4-2008 16:47

Well I'm getting a lot of positive feedback from my friends who are playing it (coincidently including ShadowChi) and they've all give it a positive review.

Jan-5-2008 04:28

Yeah, I've got a mystery which is currently being edited, but I shared it with 3 members of my Agency first. They all gave me some good & constructive feedback, which meant I was able to tweak out some glitches before submitting it for editing.

It seems to have helped with the editing, as Anikka has only had to come back to me once (so far!!)

Jan-5-2008 04:28

Can I just add if you check game announcements at the moment you will find ShadowChi's new mystery is up and running in Delhi.

http://noir.playsleuth.com/map/cityhall/post.spy?id=25797

Jan-5-2008 13:14

I submitted a question about this to the subscriber center, but maybe you guys can answer it for me. When I test my mystery, the townspeople don't do automatic alibi confirmation for the characters who have a townsperson listed as their alibi, and no I didn't simply write in the name of the townsperson, I selected it from the dropdown menu. The option doesn't even come up to check in alibi, and the suspect has the alibi listed. Is this a bug, or something that needs to be added during editing?

Jan-5-2008 21:12

Basically you have to:

(a) set up who the alibi is for in the Suspect's page eg Bob's Alibi = Bartender & True

(b) go to Suspect Screen and Set up an Alibi Question eg Where were you on the night of the murder? Answer: With the bartender.

(c) Add an effect to this Question 'Reveal Alibi'...

(d) Go to Witness Screen > Bartender > Create new question > Write your question and answer depending on true / false eg Was Bob here? Answer: Yeah he was here.

(e) Set up an effect for this question Confirm / Deny suspect Alibi > Choose Suspect = Bob

(f) Add an effect to Suspect Bob's Alibi Question 'Unlock Question' > Bartender > 'Was Bob here?'.

(there are other ways to do this, this just happens to be 'a' way to do it that displays what you need to do.)

Jan-5-2008 23:11

So it's not an automatic reveal like on the random mysteries if you do an alibi check? I was just confused because if said standard alibi checks are not included in the list of questions to be asked, so I assumed it was separate.

Jan-6-2008 00:00

(This is why I don't do Scripted Mysteries. WAAAAAY too much migraine material. ;-)