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First ChairBuild a career at the bar.
A legal drama RPG. Take the defense or the prosecution in the same case world, read the real evidence, and argue your way from voir dire to verdict.
Episode one, “The Hollow Ledger”: cross-examination, the title screen, and the jury's verdict.
You are a lawyer. The cases are real work.
Read the evidence line by line, object under the actual rules of evidence, and win motions by citing real precedent.
How it works
4 steps. That's it.
Choose
Defense or prosecution. The choice is permanent.
Investigate
Follow leads, visit locations, and read exhibits line by line.
Fight
Motions, plea negotiation, jury selection, cross-examination, and a closing argument.
Rise
Skills, reputation, and your career carry across the season.
What makes it different
Built the hard way.
On purpose.
Two chairs, one world.
Defense and prosecution play the same cases with deliberately different powers. Asymmetry is the point.
Objections follow the rules.
Objections run on real Federal Rules of Evidence, hearsay exceptions included.
Precedent wins motions.
Cite the case that genuinely supports your argument, or lose the motion.
Ethics with teeth.
Your first episode as prosecutor turns on a disclosure dilemma, and the game remembers what you chose.
Plays like television.
Each episode opens cold, runs four acts and a tag, with a season arc underneath.
Evidence you actually read. Objections that actually follow the rules.
Who it's for
For fans of narrative and detective games, and anyone curious how the law really works.
- TypeScript + SQL
- Plays in the browser
- Pre-alpha: 3 of 8 planned episodes
First Chair.
Build a career at the bar.
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