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Real-life games

Mystery Dinners

When

2017-2019

Where

A real-life mystery game, that is enjoyed over a 3-course meal in a restaurant. The game were in Finnish.

What

Mystery dinners were a combination of sweet flavors and deadly fun, where you arrive with 8-12 friends over to your nearby restaurant. You have been invited by your good friend and relative, Gustaf Nordfors and interestingly, he has been hinting something to happen this night. But, to everyone’s surprise, at the start of the dinner, you receive information about something horrible.

In mystery dinners, each guest plays a pre-assigned character and tries to figure out the course of the events by plotting, asking, and back-stabbing each of their fellow diners. Eventually, this leads to solving the mystery behind the invitation.

The game plays without a game host and in collaboration with the restaurant.

My responsibilities

    • Lead game design
      • Game mechanics, testing, team leadership, narrative design
    • Production
      • Product design, service design, design of the physical product, marketing

The Team

Other members of the team were Mikko Halkiranta, Mikko Honkonen, Iina Kolari and Virpi Maikkola

Work samples

    • https://www.mysteeripelit.fi/portfolio/mysteeri-illallinen/
    • Example snippet of one of the mystery dinner playbooks

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