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Re:Mystery-o-Matic: Solve a murder mystery every day on Thursday January 16, 2025 @02:25AM (#42722377)
You mean the website was not loading?
Re:Mystery-o-Matic: Solve a murder mystery every day on Thursday January 16, 2025 @02:24AM (#42722374)
I think the game tries push the player to be as efficient as possible with the information extracted from each clue. While this is true that more evidence is better in real life, it is also the case that finding and analyzing each of these takes time and effort, that need to be used efficiently.
Re:Mystery-o-Matic: Solve a murder mystery every day on Thursday January 16, 2025 @02:20AM (#42722345)
I'm the creator of mystery-o-matic. I'm surprised to see it in HN again (as it was previously discussed) but happy to take any questions about it. Btw, the code to produce the puzzles and the website itself is all open-source: https://github.com/mystery-o-matic/mystery-o-matic.github.io
Re:Mystery-o-Matic: Solve a murder mystery every day on Thursday January 16, 2025 @02:18AM (#42722336)
It's partially inspired by murdle, but I think it is different enough. Murdle is all about logic clue (with some small mini games like find a finger print and such). Mystery-o-matic is about temporal and spatial reasoning, with their own constrains and quirks. It's also open-source (https://github.com/mystery-o-matic/mystery-o-matic.github.io).
Re:ScummVM adds support for Castle Master (1990) on Saturday November 09, 2024 @11:01AM (#42095093)
The Amiga support is coming: https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/1gilybh/enter_castle... but still some reverse engineering to do.
Re:Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic game website (1998) on Saturday July 20, 2024 @04:38PM (#41019647)
A remainder that the game can be played using ScummVM[1]

[1]: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Starship_Titanic

Re:Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic game website (1998) on Saturday July 20, 2024 @04:34PM (#41019617)
That game was not really remastered, but instead they "used AI to remaster the original game footage to HD quality using a rare Japanese DVD release of the game". It is also not an official release (the game is not sold in any digital platforms, unfortunately).
Re:ScummVM officially released in the App Store on Saturday December 30, 2023 @02:32PM (#38818224)
Re:ScummVM officially released in the App Store on Saturday December 30, 2023 @12:27PM (#38816906)
There is another HN thread to discuss that release here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38816506

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