And it's kind of unnecessary for such a simple game, but here's a screenshot:
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(not sure about the title - I may well change it further down the line)
I'm going to make a game about my discomfort with the way crimes like murders, abductions etc. tend to get reported in the (British, though it may well be the same elsewhere) media. Specifically, the way you often hear people (commentators, victims, etc.) crying for justice to be served, while at the same time sounding like what they actually want is revenge, someone to punish. It's tied in to the extremely emotional way such crimes are reported, as if the simple facts aren't sufficiently appalling.
What worries me is the potential for miscarriages of justice if this line of thought is carried to its extreme. It doesn't matter who did it, as long as someone is punished. Particularly as the government (new labour as well as the tories, if I recall correctly) seem to be gradually re-writing our laws to better appease such media campaigns for 'justice'.
Anyway, the game will be fairly simple, as I've gotten into a bad habit of starting games and not finishing them lately. It'll be a series of newspaper articles about a particular crime, with the player's job being to pick out clues from them and determine who actually committed it. My plan is to take the articles from actual newspaper/online articles and change the names and some of the details so they form a vaguely coherent narrative, keeping the hyperbole and subtle (and not-so-subtle) biases intact.
I'm doing it in html and javascript as that seems the natural choice for something like this. It's the first time I've done anything in javascript though, so it may turn out a little clunky.
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