This wasn't the sort of thing that inspired game developers to create!
Pesky investors in his thoughts, Lester clicked on one of the gameplay videos his search pulled up.
The Case of the Cleavered Clerk: A haunted bank building in the 1920s, from the point of view of a
newly hired clerk who has just arrived for his first day of work (on a spooky street
in an eerie neighborhood) to discover this is no ordinary bank.
He reports to the bank manager’s office
to find an older, balding man seated at a desk, stuffing his mouth with what
appears to be raw, bloody meat. Smiling, blood dripping down his chin, the
manager emits a terrifying laugh, as bank employees begin to surround the desk,
each of them armed with a meat cleaver—and a large fork.
“Save a leg for me!” the bank manager
shouts, his evil laugh continuing to echo through the building.
Lester forwards the video.
Level 2: A detective strolls through the
main office of the bank, his deerstalker detective cap shading the view through
his large magnifying glass.
“Chopped pieces of flesh are all that
remain of the victim,” the detective states in an unidentifiable accent.
“Where were these morsels—um, chunks of
flesh—found?” inquires the bank manager.
“In your office. Can you tell me what happened to the poor man?”
“Got his tie caught in the paper
shredder?” ventures the bank manager, before turning briefly to conceal a burp.
Lester raised his shoulders and leaned to one side.
How can you better that?
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Woeful WasteWorld: Within a hundred miles of Transylvania , the zombies were replaced by vampires and occasional werewolves. These new obstacles didn't come in the numbers the zombies had, but if Bernard hadn't been ready (he had already been killed and re-spawned several times), he wouldn't have made it this far. You see, vampires being dead, after all, were not easy to kill—until you learned to buy silver bullets.
It was getting late as Patricia and Chen made their way out of the mall, but Patricia had promised to find some sightseeing for Chen. Walking to their rental car, she took out a list of sights O’Brian had given her, hoping to find somewhere worth stopping on the way back to the Pendrite.
"Wo zhende buliaojie tade zhao ben (I really don’t understand the story),” Guo Shangzhen complained, and judging by the agreeing murmur echoing through the room, his colleagues were equally confused. Oh, the project was intriguing. They were creating rooms and halls, as they would be for any video game project, but the plans called for novel features—audio and temperature sensors, as well as cameras built into the ceilings, the walls, and even the floors in some places.
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The mystery genre has proven to be among the most versatile, mixing easily with different time periods and settings, as well as with other genres. The Gourmet Gamer Mysteries, Flying the Coop and Clouded Ambitions, bring the mystery genre into the world of video game developers and venture capitalists, where the same technology that is used to create our favorite video games is used to hunt down brick-and-mortar murderers.
The mystery pops up in numerous genres. It proved a staple for science fiction classics, in print and film, and it has crept into animated features, comic books, and more. It also finds a natural fit with video games, whether it's authors seeking new turf for an intense murder investigation or game designers who see the thrill in a good whodunit.
