Chris Hecker's new espionage game about subtle behavior, performance, perception, and deception.
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The fellow on the right looks like a pretty nice guy, no? Well, take my advice: don’t go to a party where he is lurking outside. Meet Paul and Ian, my elite SpyParty playtesters. Both have played around 10 hours of SpyParty across multiple sessions. They’ve played the game more than anybody else, including me […]
One of the new things I’m doing for the GDC build is adding two additional maps. Up until now, everybody who’s played SpyParty has played in the Ballroom, a box with 12 or so characters in it and windows on two sides. The Ballroom is carefully tuned to be fair for both Sniper and Spy […]
You may have heard SpyParty was nominated for the Seumas McNally 1 Grand Prize at the 2011 Independent Games Festival. This is really exciting, even though I probably have no chance of winning! Still, I celebrated in the best way possible: I worked on the game. The feature I’m working on right now I call […]
Here is a quick teaser for the metrics I’m analyzing from the playtest data from both PAX and NYU. The counts below are the number of times the Spy player picks a given character, out of 601 games across both playtests. I find it interesting that the guy in the obvious plaid jacket gets picked […]
My crazily hectic summer & fall continues… I’m back from a great time at GameCity in Nottingham, UK (here are some pics, and I’ll post the lecture audio shortly), and now I’m preparing to go to NYU’s GameCenter in a couple weeks. On November 18th, on the lower level of NYU’s 721 Broadway building, we […]
