In a city square, there is one assassin. He kills civilians with a very sneaky gunshot, and he looks a lot like others civilian. You're a Detective that can investigate the crime scene, mark your suspects and find who is killing every one.
Input:
WASD or arrows - Walk Left Mouse Button - Mark Suspect Right Mouse Button - Choose your villain
Well done! Slow but it makes sense in its context. Note: I had to download the game because the web version does not allow you to click the right button! ; )
Hey Guys! Thanks for the tips. I've removed the Web version of the game. Considering that the jam is over, I shouldn't correct the web build bug or code anything of the game, so is preferable to remove it.
It's actually an option when exporting the game. Just choose the template that allows right-clicks, instead of the default web template. Personally, I wouldn't count that as coding and you *are* allowed to create other distributions during the voting.
Best game I've played so far, seriously. This so deserves number one spot. I tweeted @McFunkypants to this game's link - I hope he gives it some more publicity. :D
Web link also doesn't seem to function for me. I ran the installer, restarted chrome, and am still advised to install unity when I try to load the page.
For some reason the unity link isn't working for me. It says I need the plugin but I definitely have it (made my game in it too). Probably going to download the windows version, because this looks like an interesting one.
Wow, this is really impressive. Not sure if you're aware, but the game minimized itself when I won (I was playing fullscreen). I've been learning unity for the last few months, and have mostly been using the 2d Toolkit, but I've thought about trying something totally primitive based in unity for a white. Thanks for showing me the potential of it...Good work!
As far as critiques, I think something that would add a lot would be some crowd noise, kind of like the rumble of a lot of people talking before a concert or something. I feel like it would a lot to the sense of finding a needle in a haystack. Maybe something like this, only very quiet and ambient. http://www.freesound.org/search/?q=crowd&page=2#sound
Obviously, that might have been difficult to make on your own over the weekend, haha.
This is really very pretty indeed, reminds me a lot of Gravity Bone. Love the concept, really original. Just the one negative point - it seems like when I restart the game after losing, there are no more murders in the second game - anyone else have this problem?
Very interesting idea. Kind of hard. Took a few plays to understand what I was doing (the ingame explanations don't quite make sense, the directions for input are only put on this webpage).
Wow. This has to be one of my favorites thusfar. I love the double-entendre you've got going on here that becomes apparent when you finger the correct culprit.
Personally I was surprised at how I was sad that at least 2 people have to die before you have enough information to find the killer.
Very nice take on the theme, I never even thought to play with different contexts in it. Something tells me the sound effects weren't created by you (forgive me if they actually were), but at the end of the day, who cares? I like it.
Let's do a bad and good breakdown here: -The play area is a bit small for my tastes, but I guess that makes it easier. -Sometimes, it's hard to see who got killed until you get close... May I suggest the victim flashing red, or something of that nature? -The rules are a bit vague. Who gets exclamations over their heads and who doesn't? +You kept it nice and simple. +The mechanic was nice and well-balanced. +Great concept. +
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SamoojaMies21 Dec 2012, 08:33
Please replace the https with http from the webplayer so it doesn't give that plugin error. First I thought that you didn't implement the theme well because I wasn't the villain, but the ending GUI text saved a lot actually. Sound effects were nice but music would have been nice. Lighting is very bright. It was very fun. Good job!
That is a pretty interesting game, although it was a bit too hard for me. Maybe if there was an option to accelerate the game time? I found myself getting a bit impatient with the pace when I wanted to test a few suspects.
I like this game a lot, while it rates high in all the respective categories, there are some things I would change: - It seems somewhat strange that you never see a pistol, I think you should at least be able to see a little black stick, or a the very least some kind of hidden blade like in Assassin's Creed - The killer is a bit too trigger happy, as soon as one crowd disperses, he just kills someone else straight away. A little too unrealistic, he should hide a bit more. - The crowd doesn't feel too real, maybe if some people were faster/slower or if some went clockwise and others went anti-clockwise.
Overall though, fantastic game. Definitely makes me want to make my next Ludum Dare project a Unity one.
At first I thought this game would be way too hard to play, and in fact, with a bit of concentration, it is not, and is very fun to play. Great games, greats graphics, great theme!
The game is really impressive in nearly every way, but I couldn't finish it. I feel stupid. I spent at least half an hour playing, and sometimes it'd be over 5 minutes waiting before there was a crime. I'd even turn away from the crowd, thinking that it was because the killer was aware I was looking at them, but it didn't help much.
I lost a few times and gave up feeling like I've either missed something crucial about the way this game is supposed to be played or that it's mostly guessing amongst your suspects and being lucky?
It's a bit shameful to admit that I didn't get it, but I thought it'd be helpful to you to consider my experience and wonder what can be done to improve the game.
Hahaha, well. It's interesting to find a game with the same underlying concept than ours. It was fun and I really liked the level of polish. Pure quality. One of the most visually-appealing entries I've played so far.
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Really nice game, wasn't sure what to look for initially tho :). Nice take on the theme
While playing I kept hitting Q and E to try to strafe around the crowd so I'd like to suggest adding those if it doesn't break anything.
Thanks again!
Up to you, though.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1508377/CrimeScene/web/index.html
Nice job!
SERIOUSLY.
IT'S GREAT!
I can't really see anything bad in it. Is it REALLY a solo game? Like, in 48 hours? Wow.
It was fun, really fun. It's well-explained right off the bat and the gameplay is smart and rewarding if you play it right.
Everything in it is very interesting, the graphics are crisp and clean, and it's a very good experience overall.
Congratulations! This game is amazing. My #1 so far.
Very beautiful game.
As far as critiques, I think something that would add a lot would be some crowd noise, kind of like the rumble of a lot of people talking before a concert or something. I feel like it would a lot to the sense of finding a needle in a haystack. Maybe something like this, only very quiet and ambient.
http://www.freesound.org/search/?q=crowd&page=2#sound
Obviously, that might have been difficult to make on your own over the weekend, haha.
Just the one negative point - it seems like when I restart the game after losing, there are no more murders in the second game - anyone else have this problem?
I did some blog posts about the development process: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/author/saulotti/
Personally I was surprised at how I was sad that at least 2 people have to die before you have enough information to find the killer.
Let's do a bad and good breakdown here:
-The play area is a bit small for my tastes, but I guess that makes it easier.
-Sometimes, it's hard to see who got killed until you get close... May I suggest the victim flashing red, or something of that nature?
-The rules are a bit vague. Who gets exclamations over their heads and who doesn't?
+You kept it nice and simple.
+The mechanic was nice and well-balanced.
+Great concept.
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First I thought that you didn't implement the theme well because I wasn't the villain, but the ending GUI text saved a lot actually. Sound effects were nice but music would have been nice. Lighting is very bright. It was very fun. Good job!
Thanks for the very different game!
Amazing game, I enjoyed it a lot, thanks!
- It seems somewhat strange that you never see a pistol, I think you should at least be able to see a little black stick, or a the very least some kind of hidden blade like in Assassin's Creed
- The killer is a bit too trigger happy, as soon as one crowd disperses, he just kills someone else straight away. A little too unrealistic, he should hide a bit more.
- The crowd doesn't feel too real, maybe if some people were faster/slower or if some went clockwise and others went anti-clockwise.
Overall though, fantastic game. Definitely makes me want to make my next Ludum Dare project a Unity one.
It would be nice to be able to look around without turning.
Also, I wonder how it would play with more than one assassin! :)
Sad you've marked it for web while not everyone can play the web version...
I lost a few times and gave up feeling like I've either missed something crucial about the way this game is supposed to be played or that it's mostly guessing amongst your suspects and being lucky?
It's a bit shameful to admit that I didn't get it, but I thought it'd be helpful to you to consider my experience and wonder what can be done to improve the game.
I saved it and might try it again later.
Also, this game reminds me a lot of this one: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=15810