As someone with three cats who are all criminals in their own way, I very much liked the concept of this game. The cat pixel art was all very cute and all the crimes made me laugh. Clues were a bit hard to spot sometimes, but overall wonderful submission!
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Criminals Around Town's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #15 | 4.182 | 4.182 |
| Originality | #41 | 3.727 | 3.727 |
| Controls | #60 | 3.364 | 3.364 |
| Overall | #70 | 3.325 | 3.325 |
| Audio | #74 | 3.091 | 3.091 |
| Fun | #76 | 3.091 | 3.091 |
| Graphics | #93 | 3.182 | 3.182 |
| Accessibility | #108 | 2.636 | 2.636 |
Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4.6.2
Theme Interpretation
Protagonist is a bounty hunter who aims to catch wanted criminals by gathering clues and using deductive skills.
Wildcards Used
Baggage
Include an inventory system
Discord Username(s)
.verth, PocketJackz - naujin930, jdbrown10, Rob - rbrtrad
GWJ Participation Level
Various amounts, everyone did a couple before
Team Size
5
Comments
Thank you! Three is a lot! I believe the most difficult part about having criminals at your place is not playing the detective, but the judge.
Lorewise the game’s town has this exact problem. We couldn’t show it but after everything is done judge can’t bring himself to punish all the different criminals so they are set free and the mischiefs continue :(
"Tried to join a group of New York ninjas. Wasn't accepted." "Loves lasagna" lol. Loved the humor of the game. I liked that you don't have to gather the two clues to have a good guess of who's the criminal. Could catch some cats with only one. I catched 10 cats but not sure if the game kind of crashed after that. I saw more contracts after catching 10. Overall, is a fun game.
171 days ago (+1)
Hi, thanks for playing our game! It’s true that the game would benefit from a tutorial, sadly we didn’t have enough time. Once target is picked up game spawns 2 clues that are scattered throughout all locations. Clue appearance is related to the crimes committed - for example in case of theft the clues would be wallets lying on the floor. Some clues may be harder to notice than others, but I assure that every cat can be found without having to rely on luck!
ohhhhhh that makes more sense now. my wife and I will go back and play it again. We didnt know about the clues. some more guidance there would be helpful I recommend finding playtestters so you can see where they would get confused or lost to yuou can provide more railings for guidance in the future!
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