We settled on a verification screen that will ask the player for a code before their first time playing the game. The other thing that needed to be addressed is ensuring that players have the manual before attempting to play and making sure that it is the correct version in case we ever need to change important parts of it or add new content to the game. This website hosts pdf and web versions of the manual to make it easy to both print it or view it on devices. In the end the best solution that we found was a publicly available website that could be shared easily with all of the players. Even though this isn’t necessarily insurmountable, it is a burden on the players that would probably take away from their first experience with the game. This would also mean that unless players were planning on printing the manual from the device that they are using to play the game the players would also need to work out a way to send the manual to a tablet, phone or computer that the experts would use. Simply including a digital copy of the manual with the game would have meant either having instructions on how to find the manual in the file system or some mechanism to open it easily. With the game only being available digitally we needed to figure out some other way for players to acquire the manual without being too onerous. With a physical version of a game this would be pretty straightforward, we would just include a physical copy of the manual and never update it under any circumstances. At the same time we want to do our best to keep player hassle to a minimum. This means that we needed to figure out a way to instruct the players on how to get the manual and we also needed to make sure that they have the right version in case it ever needs to be updated. Can you do that while in room too? That would make it easier to have multiple defusers, take turns passing off the controller and you could still have someone who's more comfortable with the KB/Mouse play.One of the trickiest parts of releasing our game is that we require players to have a manual in order to play. One bomb with multiple defusers is different.Įdit: I noticed that when I was in the menu, I could switch between KB/Mouse and controller.

Well yea, when I play with more than one expert, and I'm the defuser, I assign one or more of them a module that's mostly done by the expert like Complicated Wires or Password, and the expert that's left and I work through the harder ones that take a while, like Simon and Morse Code.īut I wouldn't be able to keep track of 2 different bombs being defused at the same time by two different people if my life depended on it. I suspect this would be the most fun when it's everyone's first time playing the game and communication patterns haven't been established yet.

But sometimes it can be fun at a party to have multiple people able to see the bomb, all trying to describe it at the same time. :) The most high level bomb defusers tackle multiple modules at one time, but if you're playing with more than one Defuser, there is always a limitation that only one person can interact with the bomb at a time. I can't work though Complicated Wires and the Button at the same time. Originally posted by Dlaw:WHAT!? People can assist in defusing more than one bomb without themselves exploding!?

Keep talking and nobody explodes dk2