License To Serve

by no-grapes-games

co-authored: @stalemeat

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.08

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.94

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.24

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.60

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.39

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.71

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.94

Susan Goldstone is a hardworking paralegal at the biggest law office in the city.
Her boss surprises her one day with the task of delivering several subpoenas to perpetrators around the city. If she succeeds, she will become a partner in the law firm! If she fails? Well it's best not to think about that.

Unfortunately, as soon as she stepped out the door, a big gust of wind blew all her papers around. Struggling to gather them, they are now hopelessly out of order, and she doesn't know which one goes to whom!

Susan will have to rely on her wits and reasoning, and question the locals to fill in the blanks and deliver the subpoenas properly. Her future depends on it!

Play Online on our Itch.io

Controls:
Use the mouse to navigate the game's interface.

Thank you for playing!

No Grapes Games is:

Art: Justin Raimey

Programming: Ben Johnson
&
Nathan Caldwell

Music: Calvin Brown

Story: Andrew Caldwell

2023, LD53

Tools: Godot

Comments13

LDJam user 2997572 May 2023, 03:53

I've been happened upon your games for the past couple of Ludum Dare's and each time they are always great! Love the art, characters, and dialogue and the detective game play is great! Awesome game!

Ido2 May 2023, 07:54

loved the art and the concept of the combinatoric riddle

Kabura2 May 2023, 18:34

great artworks! I really like it!

JamieOK2 May 2023, 18:53

Disclaimer: I couldn't get the 'cheat' to work so only saw up to that point, sorry!

Very nice art, love the combination of serious and cute, got the anime-style influence down tight, even the faceless 'extra' characters being questioned. The music is real nice too. The only thing that took me out was the clues at each location seemed be the same 'category' each time you travelled, so if you cycle through the locations, each person basically says the same line with a slight change. The lines could be randomised for each location?
Great concept and really solid execution, first VN-puzzle game I've played in a jam! :)

Savolae2 May 2023, 22:53

Lovely artwork, also I had not seen a logic puzzle like this in ludum dare so that was a nice surprise!

LDJam user 1202133 May 2023, 13:25

I got to where it says there's not enough info and to press shift+f11 to cheat (but that does nothing), checking my work in the notes everything shows OK so not really sure what I'm missing. I like the concept/art/etc but wish there was a bit more to it than just looping through the locations, since they all basically say the same things.

joao-marcello3 May 2023, 19:28

Very intelligent puzzle game and creative use of the theme.

Loved the anime art style, but the discrepancy between the art of Susan and the art of the NPC's was a bit anticlimactic...

Overall, a competent entry. Good job!

hwaet5 May 2023, 06:25

For others unable to get the cheat, try ctrl+f11 instead of shift! I like this one, it gives me pheonix wright vibes. I didn't get the puzzle at first but it was fun to try to narrow down character traits like this

Gmstochetto7 May 2023, 07:11

I liked the approach to the theme, the art has its charm, you used a well-known puzzle genre and gave it a new twist, and I admire that. I think it would be good if we had to investigate more to get the clues, and it would be nice to have a greater variety of hints, but I understand that it's difficult to implement some things with limited time. Also, I liked that each gameplay is set in differents locations. Great job :3

Shane Gadsby9 May 2023, 13:56

Great visuals, very Phoenix Wright/Professor Leyton-esque, but also super reminiscent of old visual novels!
I, like a few others above, got stuck at the "shift 11" cheat thingy, I tried ctrl+ F11, shift + f11, ctrl + 1, shift + 1, etc, to no avail, not sure if I was missing something but overall I had a blast!

LDJam user 3382349 May 2023, 20:33

Great to see a puzzle game in the jam. I would have liked to see a bit of an instruction on how to go about filling out the sheet and an ending that tells us how Susan is doing instead of just a score. But I got very invested in following the clues and filling out the sheet!

Austin Sierra9 May 2023, 22:17

Hello Stalemeat and No Grapes Games!
I went in expecting a pheonix wright type game, and the UI was familiar in that way--
But the gameplay was totally new and original! I was having a lot of fun.
Some parts I was confused to figure out the controls. I wish there was more of a tutorial, because once I figured stuff out it was enjoyable! Have a great ludum dare! If you decide to check out my game, let me know if you have any questions.

AlexClay9 May 2023, 22:23

Love the game! The world feels very expansive.
I thought the scale of the window on Web/Itch is very small. At least I can zoom in using my browser with ctrl+mouse wheel.

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