THIS MONTH ON EDGE
Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else
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[Classified] Of 2015
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The subgenre created by Return OfThe Obra Dinn is now big enough to birth its own event: December’s The Case Of The Thinky Game Jam challenged developers to make their own deductive logic puzzles in the space of a fortnight. The submissions range from various Golden Idol reskins to broader interpretations of the remit, including a written riddle by Draknek & Friends and a tabletop RPG scenario. This entry is an unexpected highlight, transplanting to a school yearbook the premise of matching faces to names. The theme proves fertile ground for identifying clues: social cliques, romantic connections, classclown pranks, and so on. But as you flip through photos, they take a strange turn – your first hint of a shadowy subplot that lingers in the background, even once the more mundane mysteries have been solved.