Mystery on the Occident Express

Credits -   All  3rd  party  assets  are  credited  in  the  ReadMe,  please  look  there.

Mystery  on  the  Occident  Express  is  a  hybrid  escape  game  where  you  play  as  a detective  whose  partner  has  just  been  murdered. Locked  in  the  bar  car  without  escape, you  must  use  a  physical  codebook  that  exists  outside  the  game  world  to  decode  hidden  clues  and  identify  the  killer. Can  you  escape  before  the  culprit  pins  it  all  on   you?

Mystery on the Occident Express is a local 2 player puzzle based murder mystery inspired by the famous novel Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. Set in a role reversal world where the East becomes historically dominant and moves out to explore the West as this exotic and undiscovered land. 

 This story sees you following our Detective, a deciphering specialist investigating the murder of their work partner Detective Scrubbs, solve puzzles and decipher codes in this unique 2 player experience. Player 2 is given a code sheet and Player 1 explores the in-game environment, you must collaborate and communicate in order to successfully unearth the truth of what befell the Occident express.

This is a prototype built as a first-year project by Turning Page Studios, students of the Games Academy at Falmouth University.

Controls

Controls	Functions
A / D	Move Left / Right
Left Click	Interact
Scroll Wheel	Select Hotbar Item

Meet the Team

Who	Nickname	What they did
Hansi Flowers		2D Art assets, 2D Animation, Character Concepting, Character Art and Design, Brochure Design
Dewi Jones		3D Art assets, Brochure design, Environmental Design, Lighting
Sylvia Williams		Puzzle Programming, UI Programming, Bug Testing
Shelby Barwood		Webpage writing/Design, Brochure writing/Design, Character Concepting, Dialogue writing, Secondary Programming, SCRUM Master
Daniel Williams		Webpage design, Trailer direction/Editor
Jack Evans		UI Design, Programming, Bug Testing
Katelin Watson-Dawe	FishyFren	Webpage writing/Design