Here’s a teaser of our booth while under construction this evening: Let me know what you think in comments, or if parts are confusing, or if it makes sense. After you play a few times, you start to get to even more depth that I couldn’t fit on here (as if it’s not way too dense already!). This document represents a fairly accurate beginner’s view of the state of SpyParty right now. Here is the print-ready PDF, which assumes you can print two-sided, and then you fold it in half to get the four-page booklet. If I’d put it up yesterday I could have taken feedback and made it better, but as Donald Rumsfeld always said, “You go to PAX with the Four Page Instruction Manual you printed.” I didn’t even have time to read the whole thing. I’m sorry I didn’t get this up yesterday, not only because it deprived you, the wonderful fans, of a day of plumbing its mysteries, but also because I literally finished it and hit send today, 11 minutes after the absolute latest deadline the printer gave me. I really have no idea whether anyone will read it at all. I’m 100% confident I will lose my voice every day, but I’d like it to be from talking to fans about the gameplay, not repeating what the A button does over and over again. My goal with printing up this document is to save my voice for actually new and interesting conversation. I felt like I had to print this because of the one downside of the Depth-first, Accessibility-later development methodology I’m following. Okay, here is the slightly infamous Four Page Instruction Manual for playing SpyParty at PAX.

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