deertective (deer detective)

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.35
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.22
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.96
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.61
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.16
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.66
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.43
Made in under 72 hours for Ludum Dare 47. The theme was "Stuck in a Loop."

deertective is a short, weird and wacky dialogue-based game about a deer solving a crime (in space!) Become a detective, find clues, and discover the true culprit. There are 3 endings.

WASD to move, space to interact with objects and people, mouse to interact with the buttons.

Playtesters:
Lance
sMUG

Comments23

jonah
jonah5 Oct 2020, 12:54
hilarious concept and execution!

good job!

PS please let people know that here is a html5 version that they can play when you go to the gamejolt website for everyone to enjoy.
ZachsButt
ZachsButt5 Oct 2020, 17:01
This made me hehe! Thank you for making this!
Merotar
Merotar5 Oct 2020, 21:25
Impressive, that's a lot of text lines that have been written. The humor is great!
The game is so surreal, I love it being this kind of different.
shosanna
shosanna5 Oct 2020, 22:07
I like the pixel art :) Hovewer I do not like the texts on the walls and how It is blurred.
HacksawUnit
HacksawUnit5 Oct 2020, 22:10
Wow! Very cool game... It was fun walking around and talking to everyone! I really liked the music. My ending wasn't the best for 'Deertective,' so I wonder if there was a good ending that I missed. (EDIT: Oh, the description say there are three endings! I'm going to hunt for a better ending. EDIT 2: I am stumped... I cannot seem to find enough evidence to get a third option in the final trial.)
Samelgamedev
Samelgamedevauthor5 Oct 2020, 22:26
@hacksawunit @merotar thank you!
@shosanna oh dang, i didn't realize that the text on the walls was so blurry, sorry! it probably looked a little better quality-wise when i was initially testing it in the editor...
thank you all for your feedback though :)
Aquanim6 Oct 2020, 07:55
I'm afraid I didn't have the required knowledge of millinery to solve this on the first go, but I got there in the end. Cute concept and characters :) and yes, it looks like a lot of writing went into this.
ATonic
ATonic6 Oct 2020, 08:20
What got me was talking to the judge without evidence.

> "They be mad spinning!"

Awesome. I need to come back to this.

I played the web version and it seems to have plenty-a-glitches, but it works well enough to get by.
frecklebars
frecklebars6 Oct 2020, 09:07
i had fun this this it made me seriously chuckle a bunch of times. loved the way it kept everything simple and straight forward
Samelgamedev
Samelgamedevauthor6 Oct 2020, 09:15
@aquanim @atonic @frecklebars thank you, and thanks for playing!

@hacksawunit hey i just read your second edit, where have you looked so far? a quick hint based on another person who had trouble finding the last piece of evidence: maybe the loop person still has some more to tell you
rmonthil
rmonthil6 Oct 2020, 09:27
So amazing and funny execution ! Thanks for that ! I love the spirit !
Diego Escalante
Diego Escalante7 Oct 2020, 00:43
The humor was really good. That was a great experience. Nothing to complain about; just a good time. Thanks!
Eugenik
Eugenik7 Oct 2020, 02:21
Very nice game! :D
Shaolin Dave
Shaolin Dave7 Oct 2020, 05:20
I like the detective style, searching for clues. Gameplay really didn't match the theme. I really liked the humor, the dialouge was pretty funny. The character designs are gorgeous.
DS Nahogara
DS Nahogara7 Oct 2020, 12:10
Great story and game, this is awesome, i got the bad ending.. I sucked at the clues! HAHA And got looped sadly.. Loop people, is the first time i saw that.. SCARY! Is very cool being Deertective and solving problems. Amazing work :heart:
CliffracerX
CliffracerX8 Oct 2020, 05:01
Hilarious and solid little entry! Graphics were solid, dialogue was delightful, and the music was solid and atmospheric. I got the good ending (I think?) the first time around;
!> As I suspected almost immediately after the report of jacket & hat from Someone in the hall, it was Officer 2. It is unfortunate he escaped, but at least the station didn't get shredded or anyone reduced to orbital debris.

I have no complaints here - everything is well implemented and it's a joy to play through. Great work!
Lombax
Lombax9 Oct 2020, 12:40
huh, nice. the game actualy have different "endings" based on clues you find?. using the theme in that way was quite funny actualy.
something weird happened on my first playthrough, all buttons were squished together realy realy close, so i could only see the text of the last button. i tried to play the game again and the buttons were fine. so not realy sure how that happened. tested with microsoft edge and chrome with two different screen resolutions and buttons were fine. just a once in a hundred bug i guess.
Arad HamidSamiee
Arad HamidSamiee9 Oct 2020, 19:53
Haha nice game. good looking sprites and soothing music. the game can use better collision detection but I enjoyed playing. I could play it for hours if there was more to it. good job
Zarki
Zarki20 Oct 2020, 18:58
Y'know, I laughed so hard at this game and I don't even know why. It's just great. The sprites are pretty simple but not bad at all, it was weird the background in the hallway was a picture of real clouds while everything else was pixel art. But besides that, great job!

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