Vault

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.11

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.56

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.89

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★26%

You are a police detective, asked to investigate a double homicide.

A millionaire woke up this morning to find two thieves dead in his super secure vault.

Search the crime scene for clues and discover what really happened...

Controls:
Arrow-keys/D-pad: Move around
Z (or N or C): Inspect where you are facing, Close dialogs.
X (or M or V): Use the currently equipped item.
Enter: Open the Pause/Inventory menu

Inventory:
Up/Down: Select item
Z: Equip or Unequip
X: Close inventory

Genres: puzzle

Tools: PICO-8

Comments15

TechXSoftware12 Dec 2016, 10:00

Simple good graphics, moment felt a bit weird, good story.

cjke.777712 Dec 2016, 10:11

Really great style, clean graphics and smooth controls

springogeekauthor13 Dec 2016, 09:33

Thanks for the comments :) I think the movement would have seemed better if it had been in the pokemon style, where the room moves, not the character.

Mieeh13 Dec 2016, 21:00

Simple art, smooth gameplay. Movement felt a bit weird but overall good.

leo_p_mahon13 Dec 2016, 21:08

Ooooh Pico 8! I love the pico 8. Been meaning to make a pico 8 game for a while.

Like your graphical style and the overall feel is great.

Why can there not be one dual purpose interaction and inspection button? I found it confusing when to press both but maybe thats just me.

Also what am I meant to do with the *SPOILER* teapot?

springogeekauthor13 Dec 2016, 21:29

Yeah, I'm not entirely happy with my use of buttons here. Watching a friend play it today made that very evident.

Sadly, the teapot does nothing except look pretty. It resulted from a joking conversation with a friend, and it fit the theme. The vault protects the teapot :P

impbox14 Dec 2016, 13:55

hmm, i like the idea, was really excited about it, but the mystery kind of died? did I miss something? I like the art and style. Reminds me of Police Quest. I think you should continue work on this and expand it. Make a cool detective adventure game =)

springogeekauthor14 Dec 2016, 15:13

Unfortunately i ran out of time to really flesh out the story, so I've mostly left it to the player to make up their own ideas of what happened. Thanks for trying it though :)

qbicfeet14 Dec 2016, 15:40

Short but sweet. Seconding the suggestions that you should expand on this, it's really cute and I want more of it.

caranha15 Dec 2016, 00:44

I like the sprite work!

At first it was not obvious in-game that you could press enter to open the item menu, so thought picking up the teapot made it impossible to pick up the rope. Maybe add a message somewhere in-game to explain it?

Thanks for the game!

Jupiter_Hadley16 Dec 2016, 17:17

Not sure what really happened, but its an interesting game! I included it in my compilation video series of the Ludum Dare 37 games, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/HllFgHUemY4

Gamepopper17 Dec 2016, 00:44

Pretty easy to follow, nice to see some sort of criminal investigation games at one of these. Great work!

jackyjjc17 Dec 2016, 05:10

The graphics is nice but the game is a bit short. However well done finishing the game!

Karai1718 Dec 2016, 09:26

Very nice job! I really enjoyed it, just wish it had more to it! (Not entirely sure what happened at the end) Great game!
~josefnpat

Nexus6420 Dec 2016, 23:09

Interesting, but short. The puzzle is very straightforward (except for the teapot, I have no idea of what it is for) but it has merit for being developed for pico.

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