# Agent Nox
> A daily AI-powered murder mystery game.

- [Main Landing Page & Game Concept](/page.md): Full overview of game mechanics (logical deduction grid, AI suspects, voice clues), leaderboard rules, and agency system.

**Agent Nox** is an immersive, independently developed daily investigation game, created entirely by solo developer **Sébastien Jover**. Similar to "Murdle", it is powered by Artificial Intelligence. Every day, players face a new mystery in the city of Nox, solving complex crimes using logic and real-time interrogation skills.

## Game Philosophy & Immersion
- **High Challenge Level**: The game is designed to be genuinely difficult, boasting around a 20% success rate on the first try, rewarding true deductive reasoning.
- **Atmosphere & Senses**: The experience is enhanced by a custom musical theme, sound effects (FX), and immersive narrative elements like detailed autopsy and forensic reports.

## Core Features
- **Daily Procedural Mysteries**: A new 100% logic-solvable case generated every day.
- **Dynamic AI Interrogations**: Players chat in real-time with suspects powered by OpenAI. Suspects have unique traits, personalities, and react with varying stress levels.
- **Progressive Assistance**: A supplementary hint system is available for players facing extreme difficulty, avoiding frustration without giving away the direct solution.
- **Interactive Detective Notebook**: A deduction grid for players to cross-reference Suspects, Weapons, Locations, and Motives, supported by local storage persistence.
- **Mobile-Optimized HUD**: Responsive design featuring a specific 'Hypothesis Bar' on small screens instead of the full desktop logic grid.
- **Player Progression & Badges**: Account authentication (Email & Google), comprehensive user profiles with daily play streaks, and an extensive achievement badge system (including secret easter eggs).
- **Réseau de Terrain & Agences (Recruitment)**: An immersive agency recruitment system where players can invite friends using unique referral links, track recruit status, create or join agencies with custom identity tags and emblem colors, and compete in the weekly agency leaderboard.
- **Bureau des Transmissions (News & Updates)**: A dedicated public news system (`/news` and `/news/{slug}`) supporting Markdown formatting and smart banner dismissal persistence across user sessions.
- **Archives & Closed Cases**: Access to a history of the last 20 solved mysteries, including full verdicts and top-performing detectives.
- **Daily Leaderboard**: A real-time competitive ranking of the "Brigade" (`/brigade/aujourd-hui`), tracking scores based on speed, accuracy, and limited hint usage.
- **Endpoint Interactivity**: Upon concluding a case, players can leave a review, share their completion time on social media, and support the project via a Ko-Fi integration.
- **AI-Generated Assets**: Crime scenes and narrative reports generated using DALL-E 3 and GPT-4o-mini.

## Game Language
- **Primary Language**: The entire game interface, suspects' dialogues, and narrative descriptions are strictly in French (FR).