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Who you accuse means life or death, November 21, 2024
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Missinger is an investigative interactive piece, where you play as Paula, a university student, looking into the disappearance of Alex, a popular student in her class, following the win of a contest. Through your "phone", you can check out digital magazines about the contest and classmates, as well as talk to the different suspects (who participated in the same contest as Alex). After talking to everyone, you'll be able to report the person you think was behind the disappearance.

The game is comprised of multiple static stylized HTML/CSS pages and pictures of the digital magazines, which you can find and get to by messing around with the URL of the page (explained in-game)... if you find the right keywords. There are 4 endings to get to (and a secret one, which I haven't found - unless it's the (Spoiler - click to show)troll ending in the diary?). Honestly, it's pretty obvious who the culprit is, but it's the getting there that is most satisfying. Checking out the different URLs, sleuthing for more information, it's pretty fun!

What is most impressive, however, is the interface, and how smooth it runs, especially without any JavaScript/jQuery to run the animations/timer/choices, using instead pure CSS to do the trick. Well done.

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