I want to be clear: the images below are early mockups, and have a lot of problems, and will change, so please donвЂ™t consider them final. ItвЂ™s always been my intention to put almost all of the game setup on a single screen, and since the goal for this summer is to get the 10 new art characters playable in a new art map, John suggested making the UI better as well. For the longest time there wasnвЂ™t even a back button, so if you messed up you had to do it all over again! Each screen is also confusing, because it doesnвЂ™t have any surrounding context, and sometimes very similar menus will pop up but with slightly different text, and youвЂ™ll often hear newbies who stream their first games of SpyParty say things like, вЂњDidnвЂ™t I just pick this?вЂќ When casting the party, the title changes, and the portraits on the side fill in, but the screen looks almost identical, so people donвЂ™t think clicking even does anything if they donвЂ™t notice the subtle title changes.

Designing a New FlowДЄs you can see by the size of that image, thatвЂ™s a lot of screens, and a lot of clicking. After youвЂ™ve cast the game, you wait for the Sniper to accept and then youвЂ™re playing. First you pick the Spy, then the Ambassador, then the Double Agent, etc. IвЂ™m not going to get into it muchВ here, but Pick is much less popular than Any as a game type, which will be important below.ДЇinally, Casting is the same for all game types, and in the current implementation you scroll through the characters for each cast member you want to select. Maybe youвЂ™re writing it on an envelope to be opened after the game. I always think of picking as kind of like when Babe Ruth called his shot, except youвЂ™re doing it in secret as the Spy.

These are the missions that you are going to try to accomplish, but the Sniper doesnвЂ™t know which M of the N youвЂ™re picking. Rewind back up, and if you choose Pick M of N, then you pick the N selected missions, but you also have to pick the M вЂњpickedвЂќ missions. Once you pick the missions for Any or Known, you review them (which is an artifact of the current flowвЂ¦remember, IвЂ™m not defending this, itвЂ™s just what weвЂ™ve got right now), and then youвЂ™re on to Casting. It turns out, Known N is just a special case of Any M of N, where M equals N. If you choose Known 4, then you pick the 4 missions. 2 For something like Any 3 of 5, this means youвЂ™re picking the 5 missions that will be selected for the Spy and known by the Sniper. If you are picking Any or Known game types, then you have to pick the вЂњselectedвЂќ missions for your game. At this point, the game knows which game types and missions are available, because those vary by map. Going through these steps, the first two are easy: you pick to be the Spy and you pick the level.

17:47 Supporting Different Sniper Styles.

14:12 вЂњCampersвЂќ vs вЂњBehavioralistвЂќ Sniping Styles.

If you have any suggestions let us know in the comments! Below you will find time stamps for all of the topics we discussed as well as the video! If all goes well we want to continue doing these more frequently, exceptВ not quite as long. We mainly talked about some of the highlights of the past few patches. We basically stole this idea from the Introversion folks, who do a similar thing for Prison ArchitectВ release notes. We had ourselves a conversation about the latest SpyParty features, we recorded it, and then I turned it into a video.

Hey all! checker and I decided to try something a little bit different.

Spyparty fingerprint glasses