We're happy to announce that Murder Mystery Machine is now a supported game for Tilt Five! This holographic gaming system transforms tabletop and video games into 3D vibrant holographic environments.

Tilt Five™ owners can experience the game in full AR: investigate the crime scenes like real-world dioramas, peer around corners for hidden clues, and solve murder mysteries from a completely original point-of-view! Here's a preview of what it can look like:

Using the Tilt Five™ augmented reality (AR) glasses, Gameboard, and Wand controller, you can immerse
yourself in experiences like never before. Visit Tilt Five's website[www.tiltfive.com] to find out how to bring Murder Mystery Machine alive on your tabletop!

Once you complete the new update, you should be met with an option for regular play, or Tilt Five. Owners of the Tilt Five can select this to begin playing.

We're excited for players to play MMM in this new perspective - let us know what you think, AR players!

Best,
Blazing Griffin Team

Welcome back DCA detectives! A couple of months ago we released a roadmap for future changes and have been working on new features and designs ever since. We're glad to announce a number of fun additions to Murder Mystery Machine, including new deduction tools, case replay, hint changes, and a ranking re-design.


We heard players sometimes would disconnect the right deductions and find themselves confused if they were doing the right thing. So, we've added locked deduction links for easy tracking, and a deduction counter to know what's left to solve.

If you preferred the original system, or find this too simple, you can disable workspace extensions at any time in the game settings.


This was one of our most requested features, and now you have it! Instead of waiting until the end of the game to replay cases, you can now replay cases once you've finished the episode. If you've missed that A+ rating or forgot a plot moment you can visit the MMM in the office, and pick them back up from previous episodes.


Some of you felt a little misled by the ranking system, not knowing that hints or failed attempts would affect the rating and were unable to redo it. Now you can replay cases, but also better understand your score!

We've redesigned the UI so that hints and failed attempts are the focus of ranking - you won't lose score if you don't gather every item or deduction (unless you're wanting the 100% achievement). This combined with our next change should make things crystal clear.

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Finally, we've changed the hint icon to be more recognizable, as some of you either pressed it thinking it was something else, or pressed it by accident. It's now a classic question mark, but also comes with a confirmation step so you know it's a hint, and that it will affect your rating. Continue at your own risk!

That's everything! Thanks for your patience while we worked on this, and feel free to give feedback on how you get on in-game. Make sure to follow our Twitter, or join our community on Discord[discord.gg]. So, why are you still here? Don't you have murders to solve?

Best,

Blazing Griffin Games

It's a special Microids Publisher Deal until Wednesday, so get Murder Mystery Machine 10% off for a limited time!

Watch developers play Murder Mystery Machine pre-recorded from a variety of events such as Steam Next Fest, Gamescom and our casual playthroughs! It should give you an insight into how the game is played, answer any questions you might have and get a behind-the-scenes look into how the game was made!

Make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates! You can also visit the Murder Mystery Machine website [murdermysterymachine.com]to subscribe for info.

Welcome back, DCA recruits! Following our 1.02 hotfix containing some critical bug fixes, we’ve been working on multiple larger updates for new features, quality-of-life adjustments and sorting some smaller bugs. Primarily, we wanted to listen to your feedback closely and figure out how to make the game better for everyone.

However – updates take time! While the team design, program and test these ideas, we wanted to explain what’s expected over the coming months in as much detail as possible. Some small details might change over development, but this is a general scope of what’s coming up for Murder Mystery Machine.


A lot of you want to replay scenes, to either check out elements you missed or improve your score to an A+ for those costume unlocks we all crave. We understand – being met with a low rank and no way to improve it can be frustrating, especially combined with any problems related to what we’re helping below. However, this isn’t as easy as you might think; MMM is a narrative experience combined with a puzzling one, and isn’t designed to be replayed over and over within the same scene. So, here’s a compromise we came up with:

You will be able to replay scenes, after that full episode is complete. If you’ve completed an episode and moved onto another (e.g. episode 2 to 3), you can access the MMM in the office to find previous scenes, view your ranks, and play them again. Happy hunting!

One of the repeated comments from players was confusion over correct deductions. “I think I got it right because something flashed up about dialogue, but then I lost what it was!” you might have said, or “I got a low rank, but didn’t know there were more deductions! How am I supposed to know there’s more?” So, we’re adding:

• Deduction counters: fairly self-explanatory, this keeps track of your correct deductions made, and how many are left to go. Keeps you on track, and confirms your suspicions.
  
• Confirmed links: if you get a correct deduction, the link will become a solid, unbroken line to signify this is the right connection. Reduces confusion and allows you to move onto everything else.
  
• Pop-up changes: the ‘new dialogue’ pop-up will now remain on screen until the player exits so they don’t miss it, and we’re reducing the size of tip pop-ups so they don’t cover the mindmap or get in the way.

Deduction counters and confirmed links will be an optional setting in our menu as it changes/simplifies the evidence mindmap, and we don’t want to interrupt or change the game for existing players. Many like it as it is, and that’s fine!


A few players found themselves either accidentally hitting the hint button, or clicking it thinking it’s something else. Or they’re unaware hints lower their score, and get frustrated at that. We’ll be adjusting the UX/UI around hints to make all of this crystal clear. Including:

• Changing the icon: a magnifying glass can work for hints, but also general detective work which caused some misclicks. We’ll be adjusting this to look more hinty (hint-like?).
  
• Adding confirmation step: you’ll now be met with a confirmation window explaining that this is a hint and will reduce your rank if you use it. Stops misclicks, and keeps everything clear!

We’ve spoken about rank in all of the previous sections, so let’s look at it shall we? Some players remarked that the ranking system was either unfair, confusing, or frustrating. We believe some of these frustrations are fixed by what’s mentioned previously: better understanding of hints, easier deduction info, being able to replay scenes to improve score.

However, we want to do better. So, here's what we plan to be changing. Ranks themselves must stay the same, as the costume unlocks in relation to an A+ rank are part of achievements, something that can’t be taken out or adjusted easily. But we think this can be helped with some simple re-shuffling of info, and some changes to what affects ranks.

Our plan is to make failed attempts and hints used the only factors contributing to your rank. If you’ve reached that screen, you’ve made a successful submission, and if you did it first time without any help, you should get rewarded! Worry not though completionists – all the stats are still included, so if you want to make sure no stone is unturned, turn away!

With this change, there will also be a redesign of the ranking UI to reflect these changes. With failed attempts and hints used compiled with your rank and extra statistics below, we hope this makes things crystal clear regarding what affects your rank and how to improve it. We’re also removing the detective rating at the top, as we want to focus on the rank as the main landmark of success and progress. We can't show an image of what this looks like yet unfortunately, as our design isn't final.


Of course, we can’t forget good ol’ bugs. Here are some of the bugs reported that we’re working on a fix for over the coming weeks:

• New evidence sometimes appears off-screen
  
• Case file error at ending (incorrect arrest/did not arrest confirmation)
  
• Office audio overlaps with trailer at Episode 2
  
• Lighting bleeds over edges of some crime scenes
  
• Lighting too bright during Episode 7 scenes

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We couldn’t have had these ideas and understood how to improve Murder Mystery Machine better without your reviews, discussion posts, comments, Discord feedback, and tweets. Now we’ve laid our cards on the table: what do you think? Will this improve your game, fix your problems? Or have we missed something? Let us know.

Also, we’re always on the hunt for bugs. If something is missing from the previous list it’s either a console bug (we’re sticking to PC for Steam!), we’ve fixed it already, or we don’t know about it. Let us know on our Discord[discord.gg], in the comments, discussion boards, tweeting/DMing @BlazingGGames, or by emailing support@blazinggriffin.com.

Keep up the good work detectives!

Harry Mitchell
Community Manager

Hello DCA recruits! Thanks to everyone for playing Murder Mystery Machine so far. This is a quick hotfix for some issues affecting a lot of players, with design improvements and minor bug fixes coming in a larger future update. Outlined below:

• Fixed issue with freezing on evidence movement screen

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Fixed missing translations found in Episode 8

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There are other bugs we're aware of and are looking into, and should be fixed in a future update. Includes:

• Audio overlap in Episode 2 introduction trailer
  
• Lighting glitch at end of Episode 7

We've also been listening to your feedback about our evidence collection, mindmaps and score ranking, and we're looking at ways to refine the system to be more intuitive and accessible, and keep track of your progress even better.

Have we missed something? If you've spotted a bug or have feedback, tell us on our Discord[discord.gg], ask us in Steam discussions or email support@blazinggriffin.com. Most of these bugs have been found and fixed because of the community, and we thank you all for helping that happen. Make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates @BlazingGGames 🔥

Watch developers play Murder Mystery Machine pre-recorded from a variety of events such as Steam Next Fest, Gamescom and our casual playthroughs! It should give you an insight into how the game is played, answer any questions you might have and get a behind-the-scenes look into how the game was made!

If you've submitted any bugs or feedback so far: thank you! We're working on it right now and will have an update for you soon. Enjoy us trying to deduce things!

Make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates! You can also visit the Murder Mystery Machine website [murdermysterymachine.com]to subscribe for info.

Happy launch week! On Wednesday we released Murder Mystery Machine on Steam, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch for all of you to enjoy. We're featured in Gamescom's Indie Arena Booth[indiearenabooth.de] until the 29th, and will be streaming the game today at 16:30pm BST live on Steam!

If you pick it up, please take the time to give us a review - it means a lot! Head over to our Discussions page to ask questions, or follow us on Twitter @BlazingGGames. We're also discussing MMM on our Discord.[discord.gg]

Hello DCA detectives! Our Murderous Pursuits Discord is being converted into a Blazing Griffin community hub. It is now an official source to find The Ship: Murder Party + Murderous Pursuits players, while discussing and finding developer support for Murder Mystery Machine.

👥 Join community events
👀 Find other players
🆘 Get direct developer support
🎁 Win exclusive prizes

If you have questions, check if they're answered in the #server-changes channel on the Discord. It's also fully customizable, so if you want to hide anything to do with other games, that's your choice!

Join Community Manager Harry Mitchell from Blazing Griffin as he plays through the demo solo, trying his hand at being a big-shot detective. It's the final hours of Steam Next Fest, so get playing!

Make sure to wishlist, and follow us on Twitter for updates! You can also visit the Murder Mystery Machine website [murdermysterymachine.com]to subscribe for info.