Meanwhile the sniper is perched outside a window and only gets to view the party in two modes: a wide angle where details are difficult to pick out, and a zoomed in view that gives plenty of detail but has an extremely limited field of view. The spy is given four objectives and a certain amount of time to complete them in during a dinner party. There are two asymmetrical players in a single match, a sniper and a spy. The playable version at GDC 2010 contained filler art assets, but the core game mechanics have been well refined. The game is said to be in 'extremely fluid development', though it is unknown what that entails. The core of SpyParty is a two player competitive mode where a sniper must hunt and prevent a spy from completing their objective during a 1960's dinner party. Hecker has said that it is loosely inspired by another independently developed game called Duelling Machine by Thatcher Ulrich. SpyParty is an independently developed game by former Spore developer Chris Hecker that puts a sniper against a spy in a game of cat and mouse during a dinner party.

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