A Death In The West

by pete-h
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.20
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.02
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.90
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.78
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.67
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.90
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.19
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.24
A Death In The West

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Last night there was a murder.
You're an undercover detective hired to catch the killer.
You've narrowed it down to one final saloon.
You have them cornered.

Talk to the patrons, takes notes, avoid detection and catch the killer!

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HOW TO PLAY

- Chat options are on the right, select these to advance through the game.
- When you think you have found some relevant information record it by clicking "Click to take note".
- View your notes by clicking "Click to view notes".
- Each action has a cost that will increase your risk of being uncovered, choose wisely.

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TOOLS

- Unity / C#
- Photoshop
- Visual Studio
- Audacity
- Corsair Vengeance 2000 headset – Mic for recording.

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Comments16

pwroff29 Apr 2019, 12:21
I'm really into textual quests, so I liked the game. The graphic is also really beautiful, looks like you spent a lot of time on it. The audio was a bit annoying, but that's just me...
SpliceDev
SpliceDev29 Apr 2019, 12:32
The art was pretty nice to look at. I would probably change to sound effects for the buttons, it got a little annoying after a few mouse overs.
Joe Bell29 Apr 2019, 12:35
The theme is great and its a really good start. Doing additonal work for the play+ and you would have something that people would really like to see. Also great artwork, it has a noir-esk thriller feel
kuro
kuro29 Apr 2019, 12:41
I loved the art, and the audio was very nice, however simple it was. I didn't get the gameplay, although finishing the game twice...
notb
notb29 Apr 2019, 15:49
Great art, dark and spooky feel. I enjoyed it well done
Furtive Pygmy
Furtive Pygmy30 Apr 2019, 07:30
Great job, I enjoyed the dialogue and art. The mouseover sounds were a bit annoying and some music would have been nice, but overall a good entry!
grllle
grllle30 Apr 2019, 12:59
Nice change of pace to the other entries. Intriguing artstyle and narrative.
LiauJ
LiauJ30 Apr 2019, 14:38
I got excited to have picked right (after a couple of deaths from contemplating for too long), unfortunate that you ran out of time, I'd have liked to see an ending!
Carraka
Carraka1 May 2019, 12:47
I love these kinds of games and wish you had had more time to flesh it out. If you do more with this, consider getting someone to copyedit and also make the font size larger. Good luck!
Lubaka
Lubaka1 May 2019, 12:58
Despite missing a proper ending, i think this game is pretty solid and if given more time, it can turn into something great!

For the time given, you have done an amazing job!
pete-h
pete-hauthor1 May 2019, 13:43
@carraka "consider getting someone to copyedit" haha so very true, my spelling is awful!
TonyTugger2 May 2019, 09:07
The ending is hilarious. Great game
JesusAcHe
JesusAcHe3 May 2019, 07:34
The changing tunes of the options are such a neat little touch.
I'm still not super sure about who did it, but the bar on top for your status as an undercover is a neat gameplay bit, and I wouldn't mind seeing more chapters of this game with that mechanic in different scenarios.
Hope you got your sleep!
HugzFnr
HugzFnr3 May 2019, 12:49
very clean looking game, gj ! Can't help but feeling disappointed for the ending,
We used the same tools but for a very different result x) Cheers!
gonutz
gonutz4 May 2019, 13:36
Hey, nice graphics. Short game but nice graphics (I hear you ran out of time...) :-)

I like the subtle sound effects and the background image is really cool. I see that you spent most of your time on the graphics and writing the dialog which is fine for a dialog-based game of course ;-)
DataGreed
DataGreed5 May 2019, 14:24
The art reminded me of old good flash quest games :) Nice touch with different musical notes when selecting options. Wish there was an into, but otherwise a nice text game.

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