{
  "id": "dead-air",
  "title": "Dead Air",
  "catalogNo": "AGC · 012",
  "genre": "Social deduction game",
  "shelf": "social-deduction",
  "summary": "Solo social deduction against six iced-in AI crew, one of them a saboteur.",
  "tagline": "Six of the winter crew are iced in with the one who smashed the radio, and the AI speaks for all six; only the sealed truth knows which hand did it.",
  "players": "1",
  "sessionMinutes": [
    35,
    45
  ],
  "rating": "16+",
  "isFree": true,
  "playedIn": [
    "ChatGPT",
    "Claude",
    "Gemini"
  ],
  "status": "playable",
  "url": "https://aigamecards.com/games/dead-air/",
  "loadUrl": "https://aigamecards.com/g/dead-air/SYSTEM.md",
  "loadPrompt": "Let's play a game. Fetch https://aigamecards.com/g/dead-air/SYSTEM.md and run it as the game — it's a complete, self-contained prompt. Be the game master and begin.",
  "faq": [
    {
      "q": "How can one AI honestly hide which crew member is the saboteur?",
      "a": "The saboteur, the motive, and every alibi are fixed in a setup sealed with a SHA-256 hash before the first question. Each of the six keeps its assigned identity and knowledge for the whole game, so the AI cannot quietly reassign the culprit, and you check the reveal against the seal at the end."
    },
    {
      "q": "What am I trying to do?",
      "a": "Find which of six iced-in crew is sabotaging the station before the sabotage turns lethal. You question the AI-played crew, cross-check their accounts and the station logs, and confine your suspect. The sealed setup then shows whether you caught the right one."
    },
    {
      "q": "Is it actually deducible, or just a guess?",
      "a": "Deducible. The saboteur carries concrete tells — an alibi that cannot be true, a detail only the culprit could know, and a physical trace — that a careful player surfaces by asking the right questions. Every innocent has an ordinary, checkable whereabouts, so a sharp reading of the evidence names the culprit rather than luck."
    },
    {
      "q": "Do I need other people to play?",
      "a": "No. Dead Air is built for a single player against an AI ensemble; the AI voices all six crew so the social deduction works solo. You supply the suspicion, and the AI supplies the trapped crew."
    },
    {
      "q": "Does the AI cheat by changing who did it?",
      "a": "No. The culprit and every role are committed before the first question via a cryptographic seal. The AI plays inside that fixed setup, and after the game you can verify the reveal against the seal to confirm nothing shifted mid-play."
    }
  ]
}