S, on the Gallery level, which is a long corridor in which the guests tend to block the sniper’s view. Similarly, the spy might choose to play as the dwarf character, Mr. Thus, if the sniper sees the gentleman with the cane passes the ambassador on the cane side, they’ll be suspicious. If the spy has chosen to play as the gentleman with the cane, then the sniper knows that if he tries to plant a bug on the ambassador with his cane hand, the animation is almost impossible to see. Now it’s far too risky for the sniper to only camp a single task, because the spy might never attempt it.Īt its highest skill levels, SpyParty’s depth is reflected in subtler strategies and concepts. Later, as players start to play the intermediate skill level, the game switches back towards the spy’s favour as their task list becomes a set from which they only have to perform a certain number and not all of them. But then, once the sniper realises that they can ‘camp’ one of the spy’s tasks, such as one in which they must exchange a statue for another, by exclusively watching them, the game becomes easy for snipers. For beginner players, the spy has the advantage as the sniper gazes in, overwhelmed by the challenge of tracking the behaviour of multiple guests. The depth comes from the layers of deception and subterfuge that bubble up from this setup. The sniper, meanwhile, watches the party from afar through a pair of binoculars, attempting to read the behaviour of each party-goer in order to identify and shoot the single human one with their rifle. If they can carry out their list of tasks before the clock ticks down, the spy wins the game.
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The spy is a guest at the ambassador’s party and must carry out a series of shadowy tasks like stealing guest lists and transferring microfilm while mingling with the AI-controlled characters. One player plays the spy, and the other plays the sniper. In fact, its basic premise is pretty simple. If you’re taking your first glance at SpyParty and you’re wondering how on Earth it could be talked about like this, it’s understandable. I want a lifetime study thing, to make a game worthy of someone who wants to do that.” I want them to play half an hour a day for years. “Go is my favourite game, with poker and chess, really deep games that can absorb a lifetime of study, and it’s not that I want someone to play my game 10 hours a day for 100 days. He wants to push SpyParty to becoming 5000-hour game, and the way he plans to do it is by building his characters.Īnd why isn’t 1000 hours enough? ”I’m just fascinated by this depth thing,” Hecker tells me. So when he began to make his own game, SpyParty, which after eight years of development has finally hit Steam Early Access, he said to himself, “I’m going to go really hard on the depth.”Īnd so Hecker did, putting enough depth in this asymmetric two-player competitive game to satisfy 1000 hours of matches from its most dedicated players. And he’d know because he was a lead engineer and designer on Spore. The way Hecker sees it, Spore’s problem was that it was all accessibility and no depth.
If Chris Hecker was going to make a mistake with SpyParty, he wanted it to be the opposite mistake to the one Spore made. This is The Mechanic, where Alex Wiltshire invites developers to discuss the difficult journeys they’ve taken to make their games.
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