Very nice detective game, gave me a challenge! I enjoyed the art and the mood set by the audio. I like that it generates random cases so that you can play it multiple times.
I've played a few games like these before and they are always a nice little brain puzzle.
This one is simplistic, but the only problem per se is the murder weapon. I think it's based on the type of noise and the location, but I don't think a real detective would jump to such conclusions with only hearsay.
I'd like to see a more complex version with figuring out personal relationships and other connections between people as well as some crime scene investigation to fix that murder weapon problem.
Some bugs/tweaks: -Skipping/FastForwarding dialogue would be ace. -Resizing the screen, while nicely rescaling the graphics, does break the gui button hitbox offsets.
HuvaaKoodia: Thanks for the feedback. I've fixed the resizing bug right now by making the window unresizeable and added some information about the murder weapon in the title screen. We'll release a proper fix with working resolution changing soon, also including dialogue skipping.
About other things - we'd really like to add them, but these are more complex and probably will be in a post-compo version :)
A great mystery game! I love how new cases are randomly generated. The way the text was handled was a bit awkward - the gradual text can't be skipped, and the text that you want to keep on screen vanished automatically!
I love the idea of this game, its really cool that you can be the detective and act like one XD. The downsides of this game would be the lack of buttons to skip certain texts dialogues, since they take a really long time to shift, to me that is. But overall, nice idea :D and its cool that you've made this in 3 days XD
This game made me feel a little smarter for getting it right. Nice approach with the procedurally generated cases. Very nice presentation, although the opening crawl could do with a skip button or something. All around solid effort.
Not bad, my biggest complaint is how slow the text shows up. This game would really benefit from the ability to force all of the text to show at once, especially on subsequent playthroughs.
This game is GOOD, y'all. There are some flaws, though. Most obviously, the choice of weapon is a crapshoot; I put down chainsaw because I read the comments and heard screaming, but it was a knife.
The locations ribbon was a bit cramped, and you probably could have done something to make it more obvious they were five separate locations.
And there were some typos, too; most notably, if someone's seen two people, they will say "I have seen Casper, Sophie" rather than "I have seen Casper and Sophie."
But this was totally enjoyable and I loved the atmosphere.
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Knife is a silent weapon, pistol can be heard and a chainsaw makes people scream. We should include that in the title screen probably.
This one is simplistic, but the only problem per se is the murder weapon. I think it's based on the type of noise and the location, but I don't think a real detective would jump to such conclusions with only hearsay.
I'd like to see a more complex version with figuring out personal relationships and other connections between people as well as some crime scene investigation to fix that murder weapon problem.
Some bugs/tweaks:
-Skipping/FastForwarding dialogue would be ace.
-Resizing the screen, while nicely rescaling the graphics, does break the gui button hitbox offsets.
Thanks for the feedback. I've fixed the resizing bug right now by making the window unresizeable and added some information about the murder weapon in the title screen. We'll release a proper fix with working resolution changing soon, also including dialogue skipping.
About other things - we'd really like to add them, but these are more complex and probably will be in a post-compo version :)
...I'm not sure I'd be happy with that local police force :)
The locations ribbon was a bit cramped, and you probably could have done something to make it more obvious they were five separate locations.
And there were some typos, too; most notably, if someone's seen two people, they will say "I have seen Casper, Sophie" rather than "I have seen Casper and Sophie."
But this was totally enjoyable and I loved the atmosphere.