An abandoned hotel paired with "look closer" is the perfect way to make players second-guess what they just missed. 👀
In Chapter 1, are you leaning more toward using environmental details to slowly unpack the guilt and the truth, or using dialogue to reframe what the player has already seen?
I'm working on an interactive story right now, so I'm super curious how you pace that kind of suspense.
The environment drops the first clues, the dialogue makes you second-guess what you just saw, and then a second playthrough ties all the details together—that kind of suspense hits the spot haha.
While we're at it, would you be up for trying a quick, free web demo of ISECAI? I'm helping test an AI anime academy RPG driven by free-text input, and I'd love to get your gut reaction to the character responses and narrative clues. If you're interested, I'll drop the link and a personal invite code right here for you. 🎮
