Here's Why Anyone Can Make a Mystery Game

There's only one requirement. And you already have it.

If you’re a fan of mysteries, you’ve probably had ideas for creating your own.

But you might be frozen by self doubt:

• You’re overwhelmed by the complexity of mystery stories

• You don’t think you’re smart or clever enough

• You don’t even know where to begin

So can you really make a mystery game, especially on your own as a beginner?

I’m here to tell you right now:

Yes, regardless of your level of experience, you absolutely can.

The first mystery games that I made were created when I was in high school, and people responded well to those.

So my own personal experience serves as proof that it can be done.

It doesn’t matter how old you are or how much experience you have.

You can definitely create one, even if you’re not a total master of the craft.

You just have to make something that’s good enough for other people to enjoy.

And that’s what we’re going to discuss in today’s article.

If you can write other genres, you can write mystery

Now maybe a good way to approach this idea is to think about how you might write other kinds of stories, other genres of fiction outside of mystery.

If you were going to write a romance story, the only requirement is that you know what it’s like to fall in love.

So that’s a fairly easy bar for anyone to meet, right?

If you’ve ever had feelings for someone else, you can write those feelings down and it can create an authentic story.

And especially if you’ve been in a relationship, then you can just sort of write what that narrative looks like.

Going on that journey from finding someone you meet and falling in love with them, and then going on dates with them ,and then maybe breaking up, or then maybe getting married… Or who knows what happens, right?

That’s sort of the whole adventure that goes on in a romance, right?

Now on the other hand, maybe if you’re writing a horror story, the only requirement there is that you know what it’s like to have been scared before — to be afraid of something.

And of course, everyone has had that happen to them in their own lives as well.

We all have our own fears and insecurities.

And as long as you’re able to write about them and express what those fears and insecurities are, you can basically write any kind of horror story.

And so based on those two examples, romance stories and horror stories, you might conclude that writing a mystery story requires some level of experience of being smart enough to solve a mystery on your own.

And you might get worried that you don’t have that level of intelligence, right?

That all of these mystery stories are about super genius detectives who are clever enough to outsmart a culprit in solving a crime.

And you might be thinking to yourself that you’ve never solved a crime.

You’ve never been part of a police department.

You’ve never had to deal with a murder mystery, thankfully, I hope.

And so compared to these other kinds of stories where they’re almost essential to the human experience of falling in love or being afraid of something, it doesn’t seem instantly obvious that mystery stories fit in so easily, right?

But here’s the catch.

Here’s what makes this actually pretty easy to do.