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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #29 | 3.750 | 3.750 |
| Audio | #29 | 3.750 | 3.750 |
| Gameplay | #72 | 3.312 | 3.312 |
| Graphics | #85 | 3.562 | 3.562 |
| Innovation | #130 | 3.125 | 3.125 |
| Theme interpretation | #148 | 3.188 | 3.188 |
Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/mikebailey207/Barry-Peugeot
Game description
A murder mystery parody set on the high seas.
Theme interpretation
Firstly, you are at sea. Secondly, the core gameplay involves beating waves of mini-games.
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I can finally vote, now. Of course, 5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5
Oh thanks!! :)
Super fun! Dialogue was really funny and I enjoyed all the references :D
I also liked that all the minigames matched the characters (especially the Chris Tarrant one lol)
Aside: Did you actually bite into an raw onion for the sound effect?
Thanks! (And no I didn't bite into a raw onion haha)
Funniest of the entries that I have played so far! Good job.
thanks!
This is a fantastic entry. Well done. The humour and vibe of the game is top notch and right up my alley. Without spoiling it I correctly guessed the murderer, and was grinning ear to ear when i realised what direction you’d taken the story.
My only criticism is that before i realised the ending the “only 2 goes each” felt oppressive. I felt like i didn’t have time to learn the mini games before actually giving them a go for real.
I thought “oh well, worst comes to worst I’ll just guess when i get to the accused” and played through, and it turned out that I beat every minigame except tarrant’s (which was also my favourite of all of them)
Great job!
Thanks for playing and glad you enjoyed it! Fair point that only 2 goes is a bit short, I just wanted to keep the game not too long for the jam, but I think there could indeed be a far better way of constructing it to allow for more practice and maybe make the games harder. thanks again
great game, excelent writing and Art Style
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)
This game made me laugh so hard! Thanks for that XD
I only succeeded on two of the minigames, but still solved it on my first try!
I suggest making the instructions ("Press E to...") bigger/more noticeable. I missed them at first and thought I was stuck in the first hallway.
Ah good work!! Thanks for playing, nice one on solving the crime, and thanks for the tip! Forgot to make the canvas for E to enter... scale to screen size. Thanks again!
I'll continue my comment here, as it seems that most of the comments are here. We were 3 yesterday playing this surreal game, because I picked it on purpose out of dozens of demos, just following my gut and its ridiculous art style. And I was absolutely right. The game is phenomenal; I laughed the entire time. It’s packed with silly little details made with love for the sole purpose of entertaining.
Unfortunately, we’re absolute noobs and lost twice, and then the game crashed so we couldn’t continue, but we’ll make sure to find out who the murderer on board is.
We can’t vote for it because it’s not on our list, but as far as I’m concerned this is my GOTY. I’d obviously have paid for it on Steam. I really hope it gets released one day. Huge compliments: it’s a masterpiece!
(And when you do release it, don’t forget about me if you ever need a professional translation ;) )
Thank you so much! Extremely nice to hear this level of enthusiasm. :)
Really appreciate you streaming it! I just watched the stream and despite my very limited knowledge of Italian was awesome to hear you all enjoying it so much!
One tip if you go back to it (which I should have made much clearer in game.) you get a maximum of 2 interviews per round to get the 3 points to find out if they’re innocent. After that you can’t interview them any more (until a retry). If you’ve done all interviews then in the notebook it says either INNOCENT or ??? Depending whether you won or not. Also anyone already declared innocent can’t be interviewed any more.
Would be great if you could revisit and get to the end and see the ending! Annoying that it crashes though :( as far as I can tell that was itch not me! Understand if playing through it again after the crash is a hassle though.
Thanks again. Massively appreciate hearing how much you enjoyed it! :)
Cheers
(And if I do release it I'll definitely reach out to you about an Italian translation! :) )
Okay, I finally finished the game (and I’d like to point out that our atrocious performance on the Twitch video was entirely due to using a trackball mouse; now that I’ve played with a normal mouse, I aced every challenge with flying colors, even if not always on the first try!). And indeed, I ended up accusing the one character whose minigame was too difficult to actually complete (I was already certain of everyone else’s innocence).
To my great surprise, that didn’t work, so I had a last-second flash of genius, and my final intuition was confirmed by Mr. Peugeot.
The plot twist was unexpected and hilarious, as were all the subsequent demonstrations and pieces of evidence laid out to prove his guilt. Honestly, everything held up beautifully right to the end, and every detail was polished to perfection. We also had fun replaying Tarrant’s minigame several times to see if we could get any farther, but in the end we gave up.
Really, chapeau, there should be more games like this! c🏆🥇🎉
Ah so glad you made it to the end! Thanks for all the compliments :) - I think I will definitely polish this after the jam (sort out some of the sprite sort orders for a start!) and think about releasing it. Thanks again!
Hilarious, the writing was excellent. I had a lot of fun!
I was allowed to do the Chris Tarrant minigame twice for some reason
Glad you enjoyed it! You should be able to play the Tarrant game again on retry if you failed first time? Or could you play it again after succeeding? If so might be a small bug.. thanks for playing!
interesting atmosphere!
thank you!
So much fun - I loved the witty dialogue!
Thanks!
Fun game
Thanks!
I love the asthetics and dialogue of this! With some polishing this could be a really great game
Thanks and thanks for playing!
It's really fun and has a great story. It's just that sometimes the character would walk behind objects and it didn't really make sense.
Thanks for playing. Glad you found it fun! Sprite sort orders are a bit of an issue sometimes I know, - I think sometimes I accidentally left things on the same sort order and they rendered fine when testing, but sometimes fight for attention on the web version. Will fix after the jam. Thanks again!
I actually love this game so much. Very funny, and cool story. Just there is no boundarys in some parts of your cabin, and also the sprite rendering order is messed up in some spots
Edit: I finished the game and I really liked the minigames. I won but I wonder what the other endings were...
Thanks for playing and glad you loved the game!
I tried to play test as much as I could but overlooked some colliders in the cabin it would seem :( thanks for letting me know.
Sprite sort orders I thought I’d mostly sorted (there were still some with Jenkins’ hair that I left in as they often looked funny, like his hair suddenly being over his face in one scene and Peugeot being able to walk under it), but understand it might not look intentional!
Regarding endings, in the end I had 2, game complete and game fail (same for each wrong guess), so unless you got it on the first go you saw both the endings :)
Thanks again and will check out your game this week!