Honestly, At 11:30 is super cute. Detective Bubbles is an instant win, the art style has so much personality, and juggling the time limit while trying to spot real clues vs. red herrings actually makes you feel like a detective.

Nice little murder mystery. First of all, the character portraits are totally adorable, really well done art, the spritework for the rooms and building is pretty nice as well.

I like the aspect of managing time, and the fake clues are a nice sprinkle of difficulty, it's true that some clues are more obvious than others but I think the game throws enough of a curveball as to not make it totally obvious on a first playthrough. I had suspicions on many of the characters and I actually had to think a little to figure the best spots to examine, that is really good.

The dialogue and the different characters are also quite well written with distinct personalities, it's really charming.

The music also sets the atmosphere quite well, like the antique shop guys song having the old timey filter or Malo's room having a more dramatic tune (a song in the map would have been nice though)

My only criticism would be, as many have pointed out, that it can be a bit hard knowing what to examine as the highlight is pretty lowkey

But overall? This game is great! I had quite a bit of fun playing, kudos to y'all!

good characters! pretty well project!

It's a pretty good game. I like the character sprites in the dialogue window — they look really cool. However, during sprite animations, you can sometimes see the sprite getting slightly cut off, or, conversely, bits of neighboring sprites showing through.

Since the control buttons aren’t grouped together — and one of the hints opens with the mouse from the bottom left, not from the Tab — it’s sometimes easy to get confused about the controls. Also, there’s a serious lack of names indicating who’s speaking at any given moment, which makes it really hard to figure out who’s being referred to at the beginning of the game.

I also encountered a couple of bugs: sometimes clues I’d found didn’t appear in the clues menu, even though I could read them, or conversely, they appeared in the menu but displayed the text “this clue hasn’t been found yet.” Also, at the end, I couldn’t select a suspect, but pressing random control keys helped.

Just in case, I recorded part of my playthrough on video, so if you need it, I can find the moments with the bugs I mentioned.

I suppose it’s often harder to give feedback on what’s done well in a game, since a well-made game element is often one that players won’t notice. 

I like how you’ve portrayed the characters’ personalities — each one feels unique. I didn’t have any trouble reading the text. I also liked that there are some objects to explore that don’t yield anything and just take up time. It really makes you think about what’s worth exploring and what probably isn’t worth your attention.

Spoilers: 

I figured out who the killer was because they went back to their room during the party, and they were the only one with some kind of poison — and the victim had, in fact, been poisoned. (It’s strange, though, that the killer didn’t hide the poison.) Also, the window in the victim’s room was open. The killer could have climbed in through the window and poisoned the food in the victim’s room. It’s unlikely that no one would have noticed a huge portable ladder leading up to the third floor, so it’s much more likely that the killer actually came down from the floor above—and the killer happens to live right above the victim’s room (though I might just be reading into something that wasn’t intended, since I couldn’t inspect the window).

Also, I think it would be nice to add a bit more clues, but make them a bit less obvious, since right now it’s more of a vibe check based on how the characters talk, plus a matter of luck in stumbling upon one of the two clues about who has the poison.

And finally, the most important thing — the question on everyone’s mind: 

I got stuck in the restaurant, but when I scrolled down at @re_rad's comment and saw your answer, keep going, the name "Bubbles" is so cute, and I loved the cover image, mechanics, and visuals.