Who is the killer?

Game Themes

• • Mother Goose- follow different stories with new puzzles and challenges
  • Mother Goose Rhymes we want to use

• Who killed cock robin

• Use the mask (crow doctor mask)

• Ten Little Monkeys

• She took an axe

• There was a crooked man

• Brother John

• Humpty-Dumpty

• Little Tea-pot

• Hey DiddleDiddle

• Little Bo Peep

• Itsy Bitsy Spider

• Mary Had a Little Lamb

• Jack & Jill

• London Bridge

Puzzles/Places to include

• • Itsy Bitsy Spider
  • Mary Had a Little Lamb
  • Who killed cock robin
  • London Bridge is falling down
  • Village houses
  • Forest

• Each smaller place within the large map= mini-map with puzzle/challenge. Progress from place to place to unlock the next locations

Narrative/Story at the beginning

• Main Character wakes up in the middle of a crossroads. There are different paths that lead to different places. Player need to find tips and tools to solve puzzles and find what happened in the village. The player progresses through and learns different clues and pieces that contribute to the overall mystery that is happening

Mechanics/Controls

• Movement
  • Use mouse cursor
• Interactive buttons
  • Mouse click
• A 2D top-down puzzle game
• GOAL: Find out what happened in the village (who killed cock robin)
  • There was a plague in the village, and a doctor with a crow mask came. The plague was hard to cure and the doctor used bloodletting therapy and burn corpses, so villager’ idea about him changed from a good doctor to a witch from Devil. Finally, the doctor was killed by angry people, and everyone died because of the plague.

Map

Outdoor

House 1

House 2

Art Pieces

• Main character
• Houses (burned, broken, two built)
• The first house(insideand outside)
• Boards for door
• Lock andkey
• Small house
• Axe with blood
• Mask
• Big box with locker
• Just do a bunch of things (follow proto art style)
• Wooden board/sign
• Inside of houses (map layout)
• Old bridge (normal/broken)
• Crooked doll (normal/boss/boss face)
• painting
• Spider

Flow Charts

Detail Scripts

Main map

Dry Well

A dry well; looks very old and there is no water inside.

Something is at the bottom of the well.

Try to pick up it? -> Yes    No

Yes -> Get an axe

House 1 door

without axe

The door is sealed by boards, cannot open it by hand

I need to find something to open it

with axe

Use the axe break the boards, now I can get inside the house

House 2 door

without key

The door is locked, cannot open it without the key

with key

The door is opened.

Locked box

A box with a Jigsaw puzzle

[solve the puzzle and use the key]

wrong key

Still cannot open the box, the key is not for here

right key

This is a…bird mask?

Text when opening

“Who killed the Cock Robin?”

Burned House

The house is burned, can smell paste around the house.

Broken House

The house is very badly damaged, nothing useful here.

Sign

You cannot get out of there until you find Sparrow

Bridge

A real old bridge, looks like it can break any time.

Tip with mask

“We decided to kill the devil. He and his colleagues must be the source of plague. If we can kill him, everyone in the village will alive. If we can success, we will go out the village and tell people to kill all of his colleagues, then the whole country will survive.”

House 1

Opened book with a tip inside

“Who killed the cock robin” (whole poem)

For all newspaper

There is a piece of an old newspaper, read it?

Yes      No

Newspaper 1

09/23/1774

A new kind of plague spreads across the country. Lots of people are infected. Please be careful, try to decrease all travel around the country.

Newspaper 2

06/15/1774

Death officially rises to 30% of the country’s population. The capital has declared a state of emergency. Please do not travel around the country to reduce the risk of infection.

Newspaper 3

11/11/1774

Doctors are being sent to villages and towns around the country because of the plague. Please follow the doctor’s commands to cure the disease.

The locked box

The box has a 4-digit password, enter the password?

Yes     No

Cannot open the box

[right password]

The box is opened.

House 2

Diary 1

A weird man with bird mask and black robe came to the village. He said he was a doctor from capital. Nobody knows his name but just call him doctor. He burned corpses and the smell around the whole village is sickening. He said that is to reduce the probability of infection, I don’t know if I can believe him even though I have to live with him.

Diary 2

He started to treat patients. He taught us how to make and use some medicines and asked us to drink boiled water. The medicines seemed to work and some villagers woke up and started working again. However, I still feel uncomfortable, even afraid. The doctor, he cut his patients, made em bleed. It looks painful but the doctor does not care. Just cuts and more, more blood.

He seems like a devil instead of a doctor. Is he really the doctor from capital?

Book 1

About bloodletting therapy (use some wiki text)

Book 2

How to prevent the spread of plague (use wiki)

Painting

The painting about a little girl with a lamb. There is a sentence of small words, says “Mary had a little lamb”

Note 1

“My box…it should be more heavy than now…”

Note 2

“Oh Mary, open your eyes, open them…”

Painting

Before found Note 2

A painting about a girl with a lamb in her arms, there is a line of small words under the painting, says “Mary has a little lamb”

After found Note 2

Her eyes opened…so weird…It feels like she is staring somewhere…

Crooked Doll

A strange doll, I don’t know why but feel uncomfortable when I see it.

Item bar

Axe

A real old axe with rust on it. There is also a dark brown stain across the blade. It is kind of heavy.

House 2 Key

An old key. Maybe I should try if I can use this to open the locked house?

Locked box Key

A small key. I don’t know why but I feel uncomfortable with it.