4/2/2023 0 Comments Bagger secret neighborAnd I somehow convinced the whole group to eliminate a player who wasn’t the neighbor, only to run off laughing. I was leading that detective session, shifting blame between a few other players. The whole session just stopped for a detective-style investigation: figuring out who was where, and whom the group could trust. In an early prototype, one of the players got eliminated early, and the whole group became suspicious of 3 players that were close by. Almost instantly we knew there was something special about the core loop. So we started prototyping what would eventually become Secret Neighbor – we’d have six-player playtests, during which one of the players would have the ultimate agenda of betraying everyone, and socially engineering themselves into being trusted as they take out players one by one without knowledge. We love playing social games like Werewolf where the gameplay comes from actual social engineering, reading people’s reactions, strategy, and ultimately betrayal. The whole team has always been into board games. Only problem is one of the players is a traitor in disguise – it’s the Secret Neighbor. Up to six players work together making their way through a bizarre house filled with traps, scattered loot, easter eggs, and basement keys as they try to unlock the door. In Secret Neighbor, a group of friends are trying to get into their creepy neighbor’s basement. The game’s premise of sneaking into your creepy next door neighbor’s house lent itself to that idea perfectly, and we spent two years making that idea into a full-on game. When we launched Hello Neighbor on Xbox One back in 2017, the biggest requested fan feature was the ability to play as the creepy Neighbor.
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