Ludum Dare #42compo

UEDJ - A Crime-Solving Desk Job

by ovidios

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.76

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.35

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.72

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.83

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.26

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Summary ##

The year is _2505_. You have just gotten hired at the _UEDJ_, the _United Eart Department of Justice_, as a crime-analyst.

Whenever you sit down to work at your shared-working-environment desk and fire up your barely functional computer, you are greeted with a bunch of files, images, audio, and text, sent to you by the police. Your job is to analyse the evidence, select the necessary ones to burn onto a single 4-10MB _nano-DVD_. Send the right evidence and the culprit is caught, send the wrong and he walks free or, even worse, an innocent life is ruined! :knife:

Now go out and earn that sweet, 26th century, 3000 Credits minimum wage!

Download on itch.io!

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Game Info ##

_UEDJ_ features 2½ cases to solve, kinda okay art, pretty bad writing, and absolutely horrible music.

The game was made using the following tools:
- LÖVE as the game framework
- Bfxr for sounds
- Bosca Ceoil for "music"

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Screenshots ##

Tags: #2d, #detective, #mouse only, #pixel art, #retro

Genres: puzzle, simulation

Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Audacity, Bfxr, Bosca Ceoil, LÖVE

Comments14

coldfire8312 Aug 2018, 23:15

I overall found the game fun. If I were to nitpick, I'd say the text is hard on the eyes, but overall, I enjoyed it.

dunin12 Aug 2018, 23:16

I really like the mood and the idea.
If there were more cases and if we could move the windows, as in a real Os and then compare the clues, that could be terrific!

Valden13 Aug 2018, 10:36

Nice game ! The graphics are nice and the concept is good ! I think there was a bug on the second trial, because the AI Judge said my evidence sufficient but the case was rejected.

13 Aug 2018, 12:21

I love detective games and I'm glad you made a good one! The graphics is great and I'm surprised that there are even audio evidence! Great job. The cases were funny but relatively short. I Would love more of these. Nicely done!

I accidentally marked the post anonymous but my username is @jackyjjc

Jole13 Aug 2018, 13:00

Did not quite get how to play but the music was nice and i did do something right... but mostly failure.

Racines14 Aug 2018, 11:24

Good concept ! I think it will be more easy if text file was named. In big case like the last one. It's a little messy to inspect a specific file.

Tamanegi-K14 Aug 2018, 17:27

I liked it! The game was very interesting, and getting analytical while still trying to stay under the file size limit was a fun twist to the theme!

If I were to nit pick a little, perhaps you should make file selection more obvious; instead of clicking the red circles for submission, perhaps a tick or a cross would make more sense.

Also, I think there's an typo there, it says "GUIEST" instead of GUEST.

Overall, I really enjoyed the game! And come now, it has pretty pixel art, simple writing, and calming, but also mysterious music; it was nice.

Jupiter_Hadley15 Aug 2018, 17:24

Interesting game! I included it in my compilation video series of the Ludum Dare 42 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/YTqGyFG4tXA

Hunter Towe16 Aug 2018, 07:54

The visuals, to me, were really appealing.

The music, I thought, was actually pretty catchy and the sound effects were good.

The theme was put to use in a rather interesting way, which I like.

The gameplay was really fun, in my opinion. I found the puzzles to be engaging but without being too difficult.

I honestly have nothing negative to note about this game-- it was all a really fun experience for me! I would definitely love to have a more full-scale version of this!

Autumnotopia18 Aug 2018, 17:39

As a big fan of mysteries, I really enjoyed this. Your take on the genre was interesting! It kind of reminds me of that concept of journalism where you like... Change the 'truth' depending on what you choose to report. The first time I got an incorrect 'solution' I was confused, but after playing around with it more I got it.

I'm still not sure that I really see the time machine in the second case though haha, but otherwise I liked the mix of text/music/photo files!

Shozou19 Aug 2018, 20:21

Well, there was one thing that confused me. Despite the fact that the game says that the judge found my evidence to be enough, I still got a failure for the mission.

Still, a nice game! It's certainly different. Really happy to see some variation in games!

dimesto5219 Aug 2018, 20:39

nice as a concept but the language barrier did not allow me to fully understand the mystery

mao20 Aug 2018, 02:27

Really interesting take on the detective genre! All that it really needs is some ease-of-use improvements. Most notably, it should be a little easier to cross-reference the files, for example allowing multiple open windows or showing file names.

I did manage to find the *true* solution to the 2nd case, but I'm absolutely stumped on the 3rd. Any hints?

OccultOne28 Aug 2018, 23:01

I really enjoyed this, the graphics were excellent for the genre, and the audio was spot on. I think more careful usage of color for the House Blueprint would have been helpful, I had trouble figuring out what was going on and which room was which between the upper and lower floors.

I genuinely hope this gets expanded into a full game, and please give me a poke when you do, it's very well done and with some polish would be an excellent addition to the Mystery genre. Excellent job!

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