The Devils and the Details

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## Miscellaneous

### Code Name

Everyday

**The Devils and the Details** involves players, as devils, trying to work together to complete a list of mundane chores but able to trick other players into skipping or completing the wrong chores.

## Gameplay

You and your party play as a family of devils who have moved out of Hell and live in a human neighborhood. In an effort to blend in with the society around you, you must work together with the others to complete chores around the house. Each task is shown on your devices, and must be completed in a different way. Completing tasks helps raise the Family Score, which must pass a certain threshold, lest the Boss give your family an unsatisfactory grade. At the start of the game, everyone is assigned one of three roles: Parent, Teen, or Child. These roles will determine what tasks one can do during the game.

### Standard Tasks

These tasks are usually everyday chores, like mowing the lawn or doing the laundry. You get variable individual points and Family Score for completing them.

Some tasks involve providing directions to another player in order for them to navigate to a certain location on a map.

### Challenge Tasks

Marked with a star, these tasks are required to finish the game. They are all themed around putting together some special event (like Grandma Pazazu's 666th birthday party) and give high individual points and Family Score for completing them. All of them are required for a perfect grade.

### Selfish Tasks

Marked with a pitchfork, these tasks usually involve giving into your devilish nature and doing something EVIL. These give high individual points, but no Family Score boost. If too many are done, it can present a Family Emergency that decreases the Family Score.

### Finishing the Game

To complete the game, the family has 3 days to complete the given tasks. If the Family Score is too low, the game ends in failure. Every day EXCEPT the Final Day can be retried, so be sharp on that last day. The game also ends early if you complete all of the Challenge Tasks before the week is up, with the game tallying up everyone's points and rewarding the first-place devil with the coveted "World's Bestest Devil" mug.

### Audience Play

If a game has more players than the set maximum, the family cat will "consume the souls of the Audience" and if they work together, they can cause chaos for the family with special Cat Tasks. Audience members will be given tasks at random intervals such as vomiting on the bedsheets, scratching up the couch, rolling over so the family can pet your belly, etc. When the Audience completes them, the Devils will get these tasks intermingled with every other. These tasks can be completed for more points as well.

### Family Emergencies and The Selfish Meter

If any of the players complete Selfish Tasks, it will fill up a meter that is next to the Family Score labelled "Selfish Meter". The meter will go back down overtime, but only if there are no Selfish Tasks recently completed! If any of the family members complete enough Selfish Tasks to fill the meter all the way up, it occurs to a punishment known as a "Family Emergency!". In this given time, everyone (including the family member that caused the emergency) are forced to do a task to stop the emergency while their score goes down overtime. The tasks are solved by continuously left-clicking (if on PC) or tapping the screen (if on Phone or Tablet) until the bar fills up on the screen and ends the emergency. After the emergency is done and dusted, the Family Score will stop going down and everyone can go back to doing regular tasks.

There are 5 occasions that can happen during the Family Emergency, these include…

* You're locked out! Break down the door!
* The Basement's flooding! Bail the water!
* Termite Infestation! Fumigate them!
* The Kitchen's on fire! Douse the flames!
* The power's out! Crank the generator!

### Challenge Weeks

Challenge Weeks are the challenges that a human can do, and can be chosen by the VIP player. The letter of Final Evaluation depends on if you ended up with a low or high Family Score.

## Theme Intro

Life on Earth is full (of anxiety)All these human chores are absurd (every day is a blur)
Housework, jobs and schoolThis daily torture’s cruelStill each week they jump into the frayThe devils and the details every day!

## Theme Credits

All these human chores are absurd (every day is a blur)
Far from the acid and heatNow they pay taxes and TweetEvery day they just make ends meet (then repeat)
And now you know this party game's conceit
This family just can’t winUnless they all pitch inNo rest for the wicked anyway (that’s what they say...)The devils and the details every day!

## Trivia

* The game's name is a pun on the phrase "The devil is in the details."
* This game appears to be a fleshed-out version of Everybody Help Grandma, an April Fools joke from the previous year, whose title dates back to at least a mock commercial within You Don’t Know Jack 2011, alongside Enough About You and Space Farts (a rejected title for Zeeple Dome).
	+ This is evidenced by the similarities in the gameplay (doing cooperative tasks for your family) and the trailers (the scrolling texts are styled exactly the same, and the first trailer for Devils even mentions Everybody Help Grandma by name).
* Tim simian:Chimp Mechanic from You Don't Know Jack (Facebook) makes a cameo in this game via the phonebook
* In the first trailer for this game, it was joked that it was an April Fools Joke, but had to be included since it was announced on April 2nd.
* The fonts used are CCCutthroatLower, P22 Nudgewink, P22 NudgewinkPHATv4, P22 Nudgewink Pro Phat, CCDuskTillDawnRisen, CCDuskTillDawnRisenCODE, CCDuskTillDawnRisenPHATv5, CCDuskTillDawnRisenPHATv10, Foundation Sans Light & Typewriter Serial Bold.
* The fire graphic used in the scoreboards to show who was the most selfish is reused from Tee K.O.. More specifically, it reuses the icon for the Onibi, just without the face.