December 13th-16th 2013 :: Theme: You Only Get One
[ Real World Gatherings | Ludum Deals | Warmup Weekend ]
You only get ONE HOUR (well... 2 minutes really) to interview each suspect and find out who ate all the pies! D:
Constable: "But sarge? That ain't much..."
Sarge: "SHUT IT YOU SLAAAAAG!".
Using an interface vaguely reminiscent of "Captain Blood" on Atari ST / Amiga, interview each suspect and try and find out who ate all the pies before the timer runs out.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- If you don't have a mousewheel, you can use A/D with SHIFT to move the icon bar.
- You don't have to use "?" to ask a question, it is inferred and simply required for some dialog that comes back to you.
- Pies are probably a good topic to start with.
- If required, you need to insult _with_ the question, not an insult on it's own.
- If you succeed, feel free to keep asking questions before moving on. i.e., tell them you love them, etc. :)
(Uploading Linux version - I don't have Linux, so please let me know if there are any issues and I'll try to fix them.)
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 97% |
| #12 | Innovation | 4.13 |
| #31 | Audio | 3.73 |
| #39 | Humor | 3.81 |
| #148 | Graphics | 3.75 |
| #153 | Mood | 3.38 |
| #391 | Overall | 3.14 |
| #549 | Fun | 2.79 |
| #797 | Theme | 2.33 |
Comments
Haha, nice concept but blooming hard to get your head around at first! graphics and voice are ace!
This is a really cool idea. The music and sound effects fit nicely and make for a good atmosphere. The concept is fun and innovative. It's hard to find valid questions though. One improvement that could be made is adding more variations to existing replies and making it so the game recognizes more combinations. That way you feel like you're getting somewhere even if you don't manage to win.
Basically make it a bit more straight forward so you don't need to explain as much first, and you got a great game!
Thanks guys, as the time ran out (I originally wanted 3 suspects) I had to trim more an more of the dialog out and the hints became less and less useful.
I've added a Walkthrough to the links. :)
Scrolling of the words is confusing. Aside from that it's very nice ! Reminds me Captain Blood.
Very nice game! I did not get very far but I really liked the concept and graphics. One of the best games I've seen so far.
I really like the concept, although the icons system is really clumsy to navigate. It would be easier if they were all laid out to see. Loved the humour, graphics and sound.
well made entry, the icons should be laid out so all of them are visible instead of scrolling, also it might work better with picking words instead of icons
This is absolutely amazing! I love the humor and how you work out what they are saying!
It's a really interesting concept! I'd love to know how you did it behind the scenes!
Thanks everyone. :)
acp_ld: Yeah, "Captain Blood" (old ST game) had 2 rows of icons, now I think about it. For the limited dictionary (a lot of which isn't used due to time constraints ;__; ) it would've helped a bit.
OriginalBigDan: I'll do a postmortem soon! A nasty bug in a global static class almost right towards the deadline almost made me pull out of the compo until I squished it. D:
"Me love you" "? ? ? Cry Cry Cry" AHAH.
Very funny. Would be better to put all icons in one line or two so you don't need to scroll. Great concept anyway
Oh something truely different.
The voice-brabel are funny and are well done.
But its hard to get a valid sentence out of the officer
Very good sense of humor :) Got a bit lost with all those options XD. But it's lot of fun to explore them!
Hey, you had some issues playing my game. I've uploaded a new version for windows users. Don't hesitate to try again the browser link. If your flash player is not outdated, you shouldn't have any issue ;)
Yep, it really feels like Captain Blood, especially the voice over
Hahaha "If your mouse is being a slag!" :D
Really innovative idea, it's well EastEnders.
Cool idea but really hard. Some hints or fewer options in the beginning would have helped me a lot. Loved the way the guy talked^^ Had a lot fun
The art is well done, but I found the overall experience rather confusing at first :)
(From a technical standpoint I find it rather interesting that you implemented a simple natural language processor here. Good job!)
I felt like there were too many options to get an overview, however at the same time I would suspect you could fit them all into the screen so there's no need for scrolling? Maybe also only show those progressions that are valid question (hide or inactivate the nonsensical combinations). I think the pictogram way of communicating could be quite awesome if you work a little on it. I did retry quite a few times, so I take that as an indication of you having something good going.
Had no idea what I was doing but the voice over was hilarious and the music was fun to dance to ;P It would probably help if there weren't so many options to choose from (or at least make there more/better responses)
There is only one thing I don't like about the game, it's the one minute time limit. Otherwise it's one of the best games I played so far. Especially the audio is incredible.
This was fun, but quite difficult to understand how it works at the beginning. Funny graphics and nice idea.
I don't like the scrolling. All the buttons would have enough space on the screen at one, so why scrolling?
I like it, I success to the mum then the walktrough was very useful. It could be more practical, I think, to have two or three lnes of icons with no scrolling, always available in the screen, than one line with scrolling
Nice! One suggestion might be a bit of a tree structure to limit the players options a bit, not every word makes sense in every circumstance...
After feeling totally confused for a while I managed to get to the second character anyway. Couldn't figure out how to get past once they were swearing about a criminal. Strange way of interaction, not sure I've ever encountered an interface like that before.
Nice concept, maybe without scrolling it could be more confortable to play with.
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There is too much options, it is rather complicated to get something valid. But i like the overall humor and graphics.