Black Closet [mystery/detective] [GxG] [commercial]

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Black Closet [mystery/detective] [GxG] [commercial]

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9 AM Monday morning. A report lands on your desk: Jeanette's monogrammed silver locket has gone missing. The last time she definitely remembers having it, she was walking in the Field with her friend Susan. Shifty hallmate Ashley had also been admiring the locket recently.

Do you:

Drag Ashley in for interrogation?
Comb the Field for clues?
Try to stimulate Jeanette's memory?
Put Susan under surveillance?


Solve the case quickly, and everyone will applaud your leadership. Be too heavy-handed in your approach, and public opinion will turn against you. Let a thief slip through your fingers to strike again, and the whole school's reputation will suffer.

This is no ordinary high school! Here the daughters of the rich and famous are polished and prepared for their futures on the world stage. Reputation is everything, and the competition is cutthroat... sometimes literally.
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Imagine an RPG in which instead of fighting monsters, you had to fight mysteries. To solve the cases, you must assign your minions to tasks and use their skills (and a bit of luck) to defeat your opponents. Each girl has her own strengths and weaknesses.

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Althea, your fellow senior, bold and charming and an outrageous flirt

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Thaïs, Althea's little sister, a former beauty queen with a sharp tongue.

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Vonne, your dutiful and studious vice-president

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Mallory, the cute and bubbly transfer student

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Rowan, the quiet girl lurking in the background

Get to know your minions and develop friendships (or romances) with them, but be careful - one of them is a traitor! You'll have to watch them carefully to determine who you should and shouldn't trust.
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So, just to sum up:
The mysteries are randomly-generated
The traitor is randomly selected
Every single thing you the protagonist say is a dialog option, like in an RPG
No two games will ever be the same

... and that's why this game has been in development for so long. :) But we're not done with it yet! Buying the game gives you a license key to download free updates in the future, because we do intend to keep adding content.

Free demo available on the game webpage - please let me know if you run into any problems!

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Oooo! A new Hanako Game?! This is bound to be good!! I am totally gonna get this... once I've finished playing the other 5 games on my to-do list. XD

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Congrats on release, Hanako! :) This game is awesome and I recommend it highly to all who read.

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Eeeeeee, I'll buy it soon (yay paycheck to paycheck living). Congrats on the release!
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Congrats! and welcome to the yuri-only games world :D mouahahha
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Congrats!

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#7 Post by Benazir »

Why is this game not on Steam?

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I've never launched a game on Steam at the same time it came out on my site. My own users always get games first. It's one of the benefits of following my site/forums/newsletter. :)

I like having the time to interact with the smaller userbase.

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#9 Post by jack_norton »

Indeed, same for me. Besides releasing first on your site for a while can help discover some last minute/rare bugs that for complex games like my RPG or this game by Hanako can always happen :)
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The first major update is out!

First: We've added a second art style (and the profile pictures in the top post have magically updated). Nothing is removed, but now there's twice as much art to look at. Didn't like the original style? Try the new one! Did like the original style? Keep it!

Second: Roguelike save-and-quit option - While you can only make permanent manual saves at specific points, if you need to exit the game in a hurry and you're not near a save point, you can suspend your session and it will automatically pick up from there the next time you play the game.

And, of course, lots of balance tweaks and bug fixes and so on.

If you already own the game, go to the options screen, check for updates, and you can patch up to the new 1.1 version with all the new goodies. This is a free update, you only need your license key. It's not the last free update, either - expect more cool stuff coming in the future!

If you don't already own the game, you can download the new demo versions from the Black Closet webpage.

We've also added a way to get a discount on the game by blogging about it.

Remember, buying now will give you a license key that lets you receive free updates (as well as being redeemable for a steam key if/when we put the game there).

Please let me know if you have any problems with the new demos!

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#11 Post by papillon »

(forgot to update this thread)

There've been some more fairly useful updates (like easier difficulty levels with fewer cases, for those who don't want to tear all their hair out).

Create-your-own-minions mode is currently in beta-testing, available as a free update to registered customers. So you can solve mysteries with the cast of Sailor Moon, or a bunch of My Little Ponies, or whatever... and they'll have little friendship events on the weekends where they interact with each other. (Well, I say 'friendship', but sometimes minions take a dislike to each other...)
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Like other games on our site, it's on sale until the end of August.

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Black Closet is now available on Steam, 20% off for launch week:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/400580

If you already own the game, information on getting your free Steam keys is here:

http://hanakoforum.nfshost.com/communit ... =21&t=2381

Trading cards are already live, so get your key now to collect your loot.

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