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TheFamousEccles
Video? I'm interested, but I'm not exactly sure how it works.
We're working on getting some video up. The core gameplay was developed during Global Game Jam 2010, just a few weeks ago, and some local news and video crews actually came out to do stories on our participation in the event, and one of them is putting together a video about the game. When that's released, we'll add it to the site.
See the above post for how the multiplayer aspect works.
In the game, each player takes the role of one of the four would-be heirs to the great Haberdashery fortune. Hanging around each of these nobles are three sycophants who are your pawns. Each turn, you can blackmail, flatter, or intimidate them to gain influence over them, give one of them a weapon, eavesdrop on them to learn their secrets, or send them over to lurk around your siblings. If you have gained enough influence over the characters around a noble, and they have a murder weapon, they'll kill the noble, and you're one corpse closer to the fortune.
That's essentially it - the gameplay is pretty straightforward, but the strategy and suspense between players is what really makes the game. That first time we playtested the game, and we all heard the first scream as one of the nobles was killed was really a cool moment. It was one of our artists whose turn it was, and when we all shouted, "Whoa, who just got killed?", he just smiled a mischievous smile, and silently handed the phone to the next player...