Maui, Thank you so so much for the feedback:
Agree, the responses still need some improvement when it comes to limiting the size and keeping consistency.
But the situation you described with the characters giving different answers to common knowledge events like who found the body and where is very intriguing.
I tried many times on my end here and all characters seem to know it was the gardener who found the body and that it was discovered in the garden 3 hours ago.
Nonetheless if you try to go deeper with details they might get off script and come up with their own answers. It's a tradeoff between heavy and costly prompts with full details and faster and cheaper requests with less information. But it definetly needs some fine tuning as well.
Thanks a lot for playing
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Here are 2 small examples of what I'm talking about, hopefully it will help you to reproduce the behaviour :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYmij3qAh3M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP4VMGuYJnY
If you're getting very different answers with the same prompts, it could means the response you get from the API you're using is somehow dependent on the client making the request ? I'm just guessing, I have no idea how it works^^
So, I did another playthrough with the browser version and I have to admit things made a lot more sense^^
That being said, it felt like there was a bit too much information to be gathered and pieced together. But maybe only fraction of it is necessary to guess the murderer ?
Here's what I found out (spoilers ahead for anyone else reading) :
-The body was dragged in the garden, it seems the murder happened in the study, near the phone ? (there is a pool of blood there)
- I could not make a complete timeline of events but there was an interview with the journalist, then Mr. Hamilton went to have a private discussion with the businessman, then he handed an enveloppe to the butler to deliver to the businessman then I'm not sure. I think he left the house at some point ?
- Basically everyone had a motive to kill him (exept maybe the journalist)
- I'm pretty sure the wife and / or the cook killed him because they both lied or were "confused" about where the wife was when they first heard about the murder. Also, I found a recipe for 'poisoned cake' written by the wife, that feels like a strong clue ^^
Like I said in my first message, I really like the concept. Now I just feel like the amount of information, characters and details to keep track of is a bit overwhelming. I'm not sure how / if it could be simplified though. Having more details during the briefing at the start (the body was discovered at X by Y at Z hours...) would also help a lot.
So I'm mostly of the same opinion of Wandering Peak but I'm honestly curious what other people would make of it.