Whoever selects their role first gets it, and the other player gets the other role.
One player selects a role: either the spy or the sniper. Both players have tools at their disposal the sniper can mark people to keep track of their behavior, while the spy can simulate the behavior of AI characters and employ a number of deceptions to attempt to throw the sniper off their trail.ġ. Watching the party from an outside vantage point is a sniper, whose sole mission is to identify and terminate the spy with a single shot.
Meanwhile the sniper must balance full party awareness with the details required to take out the spy.Īs of June 6th, 2013, Spy Party has entered an open alpha state, with $15 US being the price to buy in.SpyParty is an asymmetric, one-versus-one game of perception and deception.Īt a party populated with a number of AI partygoers, a spy is tasked with completing a number of missions within a time limit. These game mechanics encourage the spy to attempt to behave like the artificial intelligence to not be easy to pick out of the crowd. The sniper will know what the code-word is, but all must try to pick it out during all the audible conversation happening in the room to know who to shoot. One example task the spy is given is to make contact with a double agent by saying a special code-word. All of this takes place during a dinner party populated by artificial intelligence characters who are moving about and conversing with one another. Meanwhile the sniper is perched outside a window and only gets to view the party in two modes: a wide angle where details are difficult to pick out, and a zoomed in view that gives plenty of detail but has an extremely limited field of view. The spy is given four objectives and a certain amount of time to complete them in during a dinner party. There are two asymmetrical players in a single match, a sniper and a spy.
The playable version at GDC 2010 contained filler art assets, but the core game mechanics have been well refined. The game is said to be in "extremely fluid development", though it is unknown what that entails. The core of SpyParty is a two player competitive mode where a sniper must hunt and prevent a spy from completing their objective during a 1960's dinner party. Hecker has said that it is loosely inspired by another independently developed game called Duelling Machine by Thatcher Ulrich. SpyParty is an independently developed game by former Spore developer Chris Hecker that puts a sniper against a spy in a game of cat and mouse during a dinner party.
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