Speaking of the number of guests, as a random experiment, the new Ballroom will have 16 guests instead of the 13 the old one had, so we’ll see how that plays for a bit. The current old-art version of Veranda has 17 guests, so I could make a slightly Sniper-nerfed version of that next…

Eventually the number of guests will be an adjustable parameter during game setup, with recommended values for the current meta and handicapping gap, but for now I have to make separate maps.

Now we will have the new Ballroom obviously, but I also created a Crowded Pub map with all 16 guests. Before this build, we only had 10 characters, which was a bit low for most of the current maps. The other thing having 16 playable characters is going to do is open up more of the maps.

We already had situations at PAX where Snipers shot the wrong twin, including a case where both twins went behind a pillar going in opposite directions, and then must have bounced off each other and went back out the way they came, and the Sniper assumed they’d kept moving straight and shot the wrong one. Right now, one of them wears all the jewelry, 3 so Snipers should be able to tell them apart, but you will usually have to zoom. It’s going to be very interesting to see how the twins affect the game. Putting twins into SpyParty may have been a bit of a dick-move on my part…

Spyparty fine print