Arson Investigator

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.43
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.41
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.73
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.17
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.66
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.82
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.68
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★66%
In a party full of people, try to find the arsonist who starts a fire every ten seconds. On top of that, make sure you don't let the fire get out of hand, or the party will be ruined!

Controls:
Movement: WASD
Space: Toggle Fire Extinguisher
Enter: Pause
Left Click: Mark Suspects
Right Click: Accuse someone

Have fun!

Comments23

frankbsad
frankbsad26 Aug 2013, 02:15
I really liked it. Pretty hard though.
nathanhoffer
nathanhoffer26 Aug 2013, 02:15
Great work! I really liked it. Nice idea with the tagging feature and such.
Tork26 Aug 2013, 02:16
Liked the game, a little racist (all my bads were black XD)
I would have made it with lvls with less people in the start, also I didn't find the theme in the game
Xatulu
Xatulu26 Aug 2013, 02:16
Liked the graphics, really fun gameplay mechanics, not too easy!
Keevor
Keevor26 Aug 2013, 02:18
I like the concept, and the execution wasn't bad either. A good entry!
Sink26 Aug 2013, 02:20
Cool idea, I like how people can spread the fire around the room. Makes for some interesting gameplay.
CTATZ26 Aug 2013, 02:33
Awesome game! Could definitely be expanded into a full fledged game.
flamecow
flamecow26 Aug 2013, 03:03
Wow, this is very nice. I'm surprised how well polished it is.
matthias_zarzecki26 Aug 2013, 03:23
Ha, this is a great idea. Reminds me of Spy-Party, only starring a lunatic spraying everybody with a fire-extinguisher :)
Jorqell
Jorqell26 Aug 2013, 03:26
Brilliant concept.
LevelUpJordan26 Aug 2013, 03:39
I really like these Where's Wally/Waldo type games. Yours is no exception!
TinyWorlds
TinyWorlds26 Aug 2013, 08:21
Good idea! Since you used Unity, mind to provide executables for Linux and Mac (it did run under Linux using Wine, though).
The graphics are ok, but not really beautiful. The music song is short and thus repetitive.
N42726 Aug 2013, 23:35
Really fun and original, can get REALLY hard when there's a lot of people though.
doonay2127 Aug 2013, 19:11
Hard one. Difficulty level OK, and the music is also good :)
AdventureIslands
AdventureIslands27 Aug 2013, 19:12
Fun game! Not easy even on easy setting, but it was interesting take on the theme.
refreshcreations27 Aug 2013, 23:02
Hehe, I' m impressed by the fire retardant piano ;) I mean, I totally didn't at one point chose to let the party erupt into a massive inferno and giggle mischevously to myself. (Well, maybe a little)

Yup, I enjoyed playing through the game, it's pretty tough on the normal and hard settings, I kept getting the wrong person on those ones, easy mode was certainly more forgiving but still offered a challenge, kudos on adding the difficulty settings btw. Helps to expand the audience of players with differing skill levels, some nice sound effects with the fire erupting!

Overall, a fun, quick game with some decent challenge, me likey!
tchem
tchem29 Aug 2013, 01:22
creative and original,,, beautiful work ...
Reverend Speed30 Aug 2013, 13:28
Amusing, thoughtful game. Minesweeper with people. Great theme - with a little more work (polish, settings) this could really be something great!
ashdnazg30 Aug 2013, 15:13
That's one of the most original games I've seen this compo! Well done :)
Diogo Muller31 Aug 2013, 15:47
Nice! A bit hard at first, if you try to rush, but really nice idea.
Jan Marcano3 Sep 2013, 15:27
Nice take on the theme!

I found it quite easy on both EAsy and Normal difficulties, but only because the arsonist start more than one fire and I could often look at the group of people near the starting fire and follow them until I saw someone running and doing additional fires. So if they would make only ONE fire and then start running like if he was anybody else, it would be significantly harder overall.

On hard my hardest problem was putting out the fires, I won only because I had two suspects and one of them died so it had to be the other one :P

Nice work overall! Had fun with this neat little concept :)
Lianne Booton12 Sep 2013, 03:17
Tough game but really enjoyable. A full version with nicer graphics and different settings would be quite fun I think :)
MrBlade
MrBlade14 Sep 2013, 04:51
Amazing work! This is such a great game. I did all of the difficulties! I think it is a bit unfair that if anyway runs through fire, then their hair becomes red.

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