WhiteLIES

Ship View
Planetary Database
Exploration History
Solana NFT Screen

Inspiration

We we're inspired by solo social deduction games such as "Papers Please" and "You're Not My Neighbor", where players much make decisions based off of limited information and gut instinct. Connecting this to the space theme we explored what really made planets habitable. Not only this but the eerie unknown nature of space made for a great setting for a mystery solving experience.

Gameplay

Imagine this: you’re fast asleep on your way home from a space exploration mission when your ship is struck by a stray asteroid, damaging your O₂ system and leaving you in desperate need of repairs.

WhiteLIES is a mystery social deduction game where players interrogate one 'engineer' from each planet to find the real expert who can repair their ship. Using a radio transmitter and their microphone, players interact in real time with NPCs who have distinct personalities, determining who is telling the truth about their planet and ultimately landing there to fix your ship.

How we built it

Google login for accounts
Custom art for all of the UI and Icons
Vite for the frotend
Python for the backend
NeonDB for the database

Challenges we ran into

We pivoted ideas which made us lose a lot of valuable time starting from scratch
Creating Custom UI took awhile
Getting Vultr to work properly
Balancing fun with skill curve

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Implementing ElevenLabs to create realistic sounding NPCs
Creating a functional prototype that works as our vision intended, even being able to add more

What we learned

We used a lot of new technologies that we would never have thought of using before until this hackathon such as ElevenLabs, which was a core part of our gameplay loop.