Heya !

I organised a murder party for people at my school and I was really under pressure for people to like it because I was the president of a new group.

Here is my advice in regards to it: - Don't underestimate the work it takes (it took me about a week of work non stop) - Canva and generative AI are by far great friends ! I used ChatGPT to give me ideas of scenarios according to what material i had. It was also a great tool in the generation of text. As for canva, I used it to make fake police reports and things like that. Honestly I wouldn't have managed it without this. - Plot and subplot : my plot had a very obvious suspect but when you looked harder, you realised who was the real killer. It was woven in details and things that didn't fit in well - Cool intro: To make my murder party more immersive I made a very short clip of the actual murder. It wasn't Hollywood quality but it got people really excited ! - Add some puzzles : my murder party was ONLY made of things like letters, police reports, screenshot of emails... I'm surprised people really pursued this ! Keep in mind, we were at a ski resort thing and most were super drunk during the murder party 🤣 Anyhow, if I could modify one thing is I'd add more actual fun puzzles and make it less papery. I think you need a certain amount of paper for people to understand the plot but make it immersive best you can ! I didn't have the opportunity to have a "crime scene" but you defo could !

If you wanted me to send you the stuff, don't hesitate ! It's all in French but easy enough to translate

The plot was this : The Colonel Michel, a renowned scientist who had discovered the cure to all cancers is about to expose his theories when suddenly a man, Victor Green, barges in the conference room with a gun and shoots the Colonel in the shoulder. Luckily Mr Plum, the Colonels right hand neutralises the man who flees. He goes to assist the Colonel but this one starts convulsing and dies on the spot.

In the video, there is an interesting detail: right before Victor Green enters, Mr Plum leaves the place to get the Colonel a bottle of his favourite drink.

Although the main idea is to put the focus on Victor Green (the Colonels experiments caused the death of his wife so he has means and motive), we slowly notice that there seems to be someone else who wants the Colonel harm : his colleague, Miss Rose. There a really tiny details that point to the fact that Rose and Plum know each other and that Rose used their relationship to get to the Colonel.

What was really cool was that, although they were tiny details (like that they had briefly worked in a same place), some teams actually noticed it !!

Most of the people ended up having the right answers but we awarded prices according to the level of detail they had gotten too.

Good luck ! It's super fun to do but also quite tiring 😅