Detective Pawsome

by instafluff

co-authored: @maaya, @patrikherman

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.02

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.05

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.89

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.32

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.30

Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.20

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.29

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.13

_The evil Captain of Catastrophe is at it again and Pawsville has been taken over, including your own computer. Play as Detective Pawsome and hack your way through the pawswords to foil the Captain's plans. Will you be able to save the city in time?_

To Play

Open https://www.instafluff.tv/DetectivePawsome and type with your keyboard to hack against the Captain's monstrous scheme! Good luck!

Setup Instructions for streamers

Replace the _[yourchannel]_ part of the URL with the name of your Twitch channel to guess pawswords with your viewers, and if you would like to play just through chat, add the following URL as a Browser Source into OBS or XSplit:
`https://www.instafluff.tv/DetectivePawsome?channel=[yourchannel]&overlay=true`

The _width_ and _height_ of the Browser Source should be _1280_ and _720_

Notes

We will add more hints to Tablet!

Instafluff, MaayaInsane, and PatrikHerman ##

We built this game live on Twitch for Ludum Dare 45!

> *Come and hang out with us on Twitch!*

Instafluff
> https://twitch.tv/instafluff
> https://twitter.com/instafluffTV

MaayaInsane
> https://twitch.tv/maayainsane
> https://twitter.com/maaya_art

PatrikHerman
> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu_iNzHWaCwvYfEQE17kqSg
> https://spoti.fi/2VRex3b
> https://soundcloud.com/patrik-herman-composer

Comments22

Ellenary7 Oct 2019, 22:15

I really enjoyed this game. The atmosphere made by the music and artwork are really cool. I love that it's Twitch compatible, I can see this being really fun for viewers and streamers to play with their streams. It's witty and charming. Instafluff, MaayaInsane, and PatrikHerman did a great job.

Plepletier7 Oct 2019, 22:56

Game very good !!! I really enjoyed the art of the game !!! The mood of Cyberpunk! ^^ Password guessing gameplay made me tense at stage 09 eheheh

velvetlobster7 Oct 2019, 23:03

This is very intense, love the aesthetics, the music and the art is very cohesive great work!

Florian Oster8 Oct 2019, 13:44

Very funny game to play with a whole chat!

J0ye8 Oct 2019, 13:45

I love these kinda games. A simple concept that is great fun with a crowd. And the passwords were tough. Triple extra points for aesthetics and music. The mood was on point in this game.

Papaver8 Oct 2019, 13:58

That was fun!

Skyeward8 Oct 2019, 14:00

really cool to see a stream integrated game come out of LD. With a curated word list, this isn't far off a totally legit full-release game. Very cool!

BlueMirror8 Oct 2019, 14:03

Really a lot of fun to play on stream, well done! It would be nice to see who did guess the word in the end or even have some kind of leaderboard in each round that shows who guessed the most words. That would never be me since Im terrible at guessing words which Im just gonna blame on the words. There is no pawsible way they are real words. Its interesting that no one tried to cheat and just type in all letters (if that is even Pawsible)

CJGladback8 Oct 2019, 16:01

(From ElysiaGriffin's chat.) I'm in awe of the functionality of the game--and am always in love with detective/crime/hacker aesthetics. Plus the knowledge it's cats, it's almost too much. Truly beautiful.

It was a ton of fun. I do wish we got some kind of definition for the words after they're guessed, because yay English (and it would help with lowering the feeling of "that's not a real word! deception!"). As well as it being cool if you said who guessed the full thing first.

And yes, we did glitch the game (by guessing the word right as the timer ran out?) and got to the win that way.

shadowcraft58 Oct 2019, 17:02

Lovely artwork, great music and a fun game engine -- amazing to pull it together with such a cohesive feel in such a short period of time. Nice work team!

Marcus Otterstrom8 Oct 2019, 19:30

From elysiagriffin's chat, this is a very interesting game. Love how everyone is trying to work together to complete it, that's really cool :smile: One thing I would maybe consider adding is the person that got the word right to the screen, and ultimate keep some kind of score system.

Yubs8 Oct 2019, 20:46

The graphics and music are amazing! Love the cyberpunk style! The timer constantly counting down really starts to put the pressure on the later levels, really nice entry!!

ten3868 Oct 2019, 22:43

Intense.

mathemagician9 Oct 2019, 13:23

The hints make it maybe a little too easy, but it's a fantastic little twitch game

BilalCh2139 Oct 2019, 15:41

Very funny and interesting game! I really liked how it forces a group of silent people to start talking. :D (From ElysiaGriffin's chat)

sigod9 Oct 2019, 19:26

Really nice little game. And really awesome music. The game was a bit hard for me, but I figured a way to cheat :D

CrubeYawne12 Oct 2019, 00:54

Great visuals and music. Good concept for a puzzle game.

Jam37312 Oct 2019, 15:01

Wow this is great, the art and sound just drip style, and the puzzles were actually really fun and quite tough!

HumphreysMedia12 Oct 2019, 18:34

Super intense but super funny! Feel like I learnt a lot on my journey through the game as I had no idea r was 50 in roman numerial! Great music and even without the background, I can imagine the graphics being some kind of background for a vapor wave themed lofi video! Only critique is that it became very tempted to just spam buttons if I didn't understand the clues, other than that, this a brilliant game!

HumphreysMedia19 Oct 2019, 16:20

Hey, just to let you know I’ve been making Ludum Dare 45 gameplay videos and I’ve put your game in my video! You can watch it here:

Ava Skoog29 Oct 2019, 12:23

Had a lot of fun playing this when I caught some of the streams! It really makes good use of that very particular medium by making it a really exciting race between chatters! Really nice presentation too. It could have literally just been the letters and the hints as text and it would still have been a lot of fun, but you went all the way with great graphics and audio and even a silly little story. Learnt a bunch of obscure words too as I went to look up every word I had never heard before. Really well done!

elysiagriffin30 Oct 2019, 00:20

HI INSTAFLUFF!

Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my livestream!

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/494940957?t=2h32m15s

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