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When he fights, he uses his mind too, using his environment to his advantage and spotting weak points in his enemies. However, we still feel that when it comes to combat, Sherlock isn’t some Rambo-like character that will mow dozens of enemies with a machine gun. In fact, fights and skirmishes make sense from the point of view that all the places Sherlock gets into (doesn't matter if it's Victorian England or an island in the Mediterranean) can be pretty dangerous. It is likely that Sherlock may get into trouble. In a detective game, it's hard not to run into something dangerous. How do you view the role of combat in detective games, and how have your combat systems shifted over time and in different games? RELATED: Elden Ring's Network Test Highlights a Brutal Difficulty and a Gorgeous Open World Our goal is to make sure they still have this ability without it becoming frustrating and off-putting.

In a detective game, the players are expected to make their own choices and have the ability to fail. The main challenge is always the balance between hand-holding and letting the player figure something out for themselves. What are the challenges of telling mysteries in the video game format? There is also a lot to do with the Pinned Evidence mechanics, where the player selects the required evidence, attaches it to the screen, and thus explores and analyzes what is happening around. When we understand that Sherlock needs to analyze some information - for example, there was evidence on this spot but it disappeared and its traces remain - then we can turn on this mode and try to determine what the evidence was.

Players have also got the Concentration mode under their belts, but it does not automatically highlight all available items on the location. All this will be based on nonlinearity and will depend on how attentive the player is. You will need to determine the motive for the crime, the instrument of the crime, and more. Some side quests will have a slightly different approach. That is, here you will need to interpret certain evidence and events in the game. But in this situation, more diligent detectives will be able to find other clues, identify new suspects and choose the culprit from them. In Chapter One, for example, you can gather a certain amount of evidence at once and conclude that the first suspect found is a true criminal and immediately accuse him and do not even think what will happen next. On the basis of the collected evidence, as well as the interpretation of this information, they had to decide who the criminal was. He has a note page in his diary describing how Sherlock solves crimes.Īs for the Mind Palace, in Chapter One, we returned to the approach from Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments, where the players had several suspects at once. In addition, Jon draws sketches of the Crime Scene. He can say that there is a side quest that is worth paying attention to or commenting on what is happening in the city. Since Chapter One is an open-world game, the player may not notice certain activities and Jon will draw attention to them from time to time. We have quite a few of those, going beyond Sherlock's skills. What are the detection mechanics in Chapter One like - any big changes from the established deduction methods from previous games? RELATED: Life is Strange: True Colors Opens With Some of Gaming's Best World Building That allowed us to direct all the operations at our own pace, which is quite nice. We went through an internal reorganization and created a publishing team that curates marketing, business, and release processes. We became more nimble as a team.Īnother major change was introduced when we moved to a self-publishing model. We moved from waterfall to agile project management which helped us optimize our resources immensely. Our games got bigger, and one of the things we needed to do was to be able to make decisions quickly and bring awareness to each department of the studio. The Devil's Daughter was a semi-open world game, so it was already a step in the direction we are going today. It's been five years since the release of The Devil's Daughter - what shifts have you made in your development process or design principles since the last Sherlock Holmes game?