To Catch A Liar Game Design

This game was created for the Community Game Jam featuring a lot of the game development youtubers that I really love. The theme of the jam was “The Game is a Lie”. With how amazing the game’s soundtrack and art is, you may be surprised to hear that this game was entirely made by me. It was inspired by blackthornprod’s art style based on this video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=airc75QbgEE, and the music was created using Bosca Ceoil from Brackey’s tutorial here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZeZ75gM9p4&pp=ygUhbWFrZSBtdXNpYyBmb3IgeW91ciBnYW1lIGJyYWNrZXlz. I had a lot of fun creating the characters with all the different accessories. 

It’s a logic game based on Two Truth’s and a Lie where the figure shown on the left will have two of the correct attributes of the liar and one red herring. To find the liar, they must be highlighted in red and have two of those attributes. The shoot sound is actually me slamming my flipflop down on the ground J. If you shoot someone innocent, it’s game over as people that don’t have the attributes of the liar can be highlighted in red too. Easter Egg: You can also try to shoot the narrator Mat Hege but he will fly away and scold you. 

The biggest problem with the game is that there was no resetting the scene or removing of the people spawned. So, more and more people will just keep spawning, which can take a toll on memory and start to slow down the game if you struggle to find the liar. 

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I wanted to do something really clever and funny with the taking the theme on the nose. After you beat the game, we have the dramatic plot twist that the narrator Matthew “Mat” Hege, in true Lord Voldemort fashion, reveals his name to be an anagram of “The Game”. When you click on him, which is how you shoot people in the game, he reveals that you are out of bullets because you used them all up on his enemies. He was the only true liar all along, the game is a lie. The game ranked #214 overall and got #22 on theme out of the 983 entries into the Game Jam which I am extremely happy about.