They like you enough to kiss you, or not.Īt the same time, we didn’t want this to feel like a puzzle, where the trick is to discover just the right sequence of dialogue moves to get someone to open up. Someone either trusts you enough to sell you contraband street maps, or they don’t. Instead, all success and failure resolutions are deterministic, and they’re based on character choice-making. As a visual novel, Mask accommodates much less repetition than Fallen London, and there’s less opportunity to return to a situation and retry it later. In Fallen London, when the player attempts an action, their success depends on a random roll, affected by the player’s stats. Of course, that also means that characters need to be able to react with nuance to how you present yourself to them.Īsking whether a non-player character is willing to do something is the standard model for succeeding or failing at an interaction in Mask. It’s also about trying on identities, adapting to an unstable world, and choosing to align yourself with a particular group – socially, emotionally, even aesthetically. We’ve drawn some inspiration from Sherlock Holmes’ legendary ability to disguise himself as anything his detection requires, from washerwomen to Nonconformist preachers.īut when it comes to the most important and persistent characters in the game, adopting different modes of presentation is not necessarily about deception at all. Sometimes, that involves literal disguise. ![]() Your personal background and outfit help make those connections. You invite the characters to tell you their secrets, you build relationships with them, and you find your commonalities- despite any minor surface differences, like one of you having a beard made of tentacles. One of the core themes in Mask of the Rose is about cultivating a connection. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh part he assumed.” - A Scandal in Bohemia “It was not that Holmes merely changed his costume. This blog is by our Creative Director, and design lead on Mask of the Rose, Emily Short. We'll be back with more staff updates like this one during the development process! Mask of the Rose is expected to get its full PC release in "October or November" this year.You can learn more about Mask of the Rose and watch the video on Kickstarter. ![]() If you're sufficiently intrigued by the premise of the developer's latest project, Mask of the Rose's demo is available on Steam right now, offering a condensed version of the game's first act and giving players the opportunity to explore select locations across the city, introduce themselves to key characters, and encounter Mr Pages at the Bazaar. "Then change the motive, the location, even the victim, and see how the stories adapt!". "Are the twists in the tale not to your taste?," Failbetter asks, expanding on that last point. ![]() In amongst its promised romance - which your character can either experience first-hand or vicariously, instead choosing to matchmake other characters - Mask of the Rose will enable players to explore "cosy, mysterious and magnificent" locations, don outfits of their choosing, pick up odd jobs to earn money and gather resources, replay the game to uncover "deeper and deeper" secrets, even write - and re-rewrite - their own love stories and murder theories. Unfortunately, as the doctor who treated him immediately before he expired, your housemate Archie is the prime suspect.". "Even death itself has a twist here: the first murder victim since the Fall is feeling much better, and keen to see justice done. "Thrown together in crisis, you might befriend or romance many of the characters you meet, from Griz, your assertive housemate for whom the Fall was a chance to break free of Victorian societal norms, to the infernally well-dressed gentleman at the Brass Consulate with the amber eyes. "The possibilities for personal connection in London are different now," Failbetter explains on Mask of the Rose's Steam page. Watch on YouTube Mask of the Rose - Steam Trailer
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