CLUAIDO [DEMO]
Play a detective game with full conversational freedom!
CLUAIDO is a procedural mystery game where you play as a detective racing against time to solve a murder case. As toxic gas slowly shrinks the map, find hidden clues and freely interrogate suspects with open-ended questioning. Manage your investigation under increasing pressure in a challenge against time.
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Solve a murder mystery
Mr. Hamilton was killed in his mansion. Can you find out who the culprit is amongst the suspects inside?
Interrogate suspects
Discover the suspects inside the inside and interact with them freely to question or get their support in your investigation. Each of them has a unique personality and backstory and who knows, a motive?!
Discover Hidden clues
Search the house for physical clues left by culprit to support your case. Some unrelated secrets of the house residents may came across. What are they hiding
Solve puzzles to progress your investigation
There's something larger than a simple murder mystery at play here. What was Mr.Hamilton hiding and what was the culprit after. Can you crack the puzzle of Mr.Hamilton's life?
Investigate in a race agains a time
The culprit was set to sabotage your investigation and a toxic gas is slowly spreading through the mansion. Make sure you get all relevant clues to build your case before everyone has to evacuate or the gas catches you off guard.
Controllers
- Arrow keys or WASD - Move Player
- Enter or Z - Action Button
- Shift - Dash
- ESC - Open Menu / Cancel Action
About this DEMO
This demo uses Smart NPC Plugin that enables AI-powered characters acting autonomously within game environments. It is intended to test and improve it's features while delivering an engaging gaming experience.
Development log
- [Update 3.0] - Bug fixes and new mechanics!1 day ago
- Update 2 - Added and assistant and visual cluesApr 16, 2024
- Update 1 - Bug fixes and enhanced personalitiesMar 18, 2024
Comments
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I tried this out today, but wasn’t able to get anywhere. Any time I tried to engage the NPCs in convo it would just give me the Dialogue bubble and have me waiting… FOR A LONG TIME! Not sure what happened, but the concept seems interesting.
Yeah i'ts my bad actually. The servers didn't handle all the requests the DEMO had today. I'm updating them and you should be able to give it another try in a few hours
I can try next week, but will it be PLAYABLE by then?
it is playable already but next week I’ll update the game with a few new features and clues
Hi. Midway through playing and found a couple errors. If you interact with the body from the sides, it disappears. More troublesome is that when I try to interact with the maid in the (dining room?) the business man responds instead. (It's evening. Not sure if that is required to trigger the error.)
Thanks for the feedback.
I've just uploaded a patch to solve both bugs you reported.
But most importantly, who's your favourite suspect?
That's great. I noticed the same responding error another time two suspects were in the same room, though maybe the patch has covered any incident when two characters are in the same room.
Little suspicious of Wife, considering what I found in the kitchen, but I think there is a lot I have yet to find. I guess my favorite suspect is the gardener, who seems quite literally down to earth, but who knows what secrets he may have...
yeah the bug affected all NPCs that were together in the same space but it’s fixed now.thanks for noticing it.
but I won’t meddle with your investigation ahah. Nonetheless the demo only has a portion of the clues and puzzles
pressing "p" closes the dialogue
Thank for reporting the bug.
It appears that it depends on the your type of keyboard you're using. But iam uploading a new file soon with some bug fixes, that onde included.
Thanks for playing :)
I got a bit confused about how to interact at first, I thought "Enter your message" was a bug, and then I worked out you can chat with the characters. Cool concept and interesting way to use AI
Thank you for the feedback.
And by the end of your investigation, who do you suspect killed Mr.Hamilton