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How does the game fit the theme?
Murder Mystery among treacherous nobles each trying to claim their title as Duke of the Pale Castle! IT COULD BE ANYONE! Basically lightweight Among Us but youre always the hunted!
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Too much
How many people worked on the game?2
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The gameplay is put together really well - it is interesting to figure out what exactly happened and what is still happening. I did not quite understand what changes over time, besides the number of victims ^^
Also, the poster is very clickable - just as the end screen ;)]
The music is great too! Just one small suggestion: I would hold it back a little during gameplay and make it feel more restrained, almost as if it were moving on tiptoe. A bold, distinctive sound works well at the start, on the title screen, and during climactic moments, but during gameplay I would love a little more detective-story suspense.
If you are going for an orchestral or chamber sound, old detective shows are a great reference - Poirot and anything with a similar feel, Im talking about "feeler" music not the title itself. As Debussy put it "Music is the silence between the notes”—and Brahms certainly proved him right, despite the fact first not much like him.
Great project, good luck! <3
Thank you for the very detailed feedback! :D I kinda ended up spending a little too long on the art and was just putting together a working game! At some point I will come back to this and flesh it out quite a bit more :) Thank you for playing our game <3
Great game! Gathering the evidence and talking to the inhabitants was a lot of fun! I felt a little wacky when I passed through some objects, I can't really complain about anything else!
Yah agreed i just ran out of time for all the collision boxes being crisp. Thank you for playing our game tho :D
Great game, especially the music, Peppermint Butler and Hello Kitty toys!
Thank you so much!
Thank you for noticing pep butt :D and thank you for playing our game!
engaging and brilliantly made game
Thanks for playing my game! <3
Really cool idea how you can play as anyone. Only thing I didn't love was I just grabbed the 3 bits of evidence and then chose the person who had the highest suspicion level. I think in a detective game I would have liked to work that out for myself.
Tbh i just really ran out of time and just made what would work work :D Thanks for playing and enjoying my game <3
What a surreal expirience, haven't seen that Flash game style for a long time, overall fine game, good job!
As it was already noticed - characters are a bit too slow, perhaps a sprint button would fit in nicely
Thank for the feedback! I will def add move options in the future! Running in doors felt a tad weird for this but if its what the ppl whant then so be it! Thanks for playing my game <3
Guess I am the duke now! ;-)
This takes me back in the best possible way to the golden age of classic Flash games. The hand-drawn visual style is super charming and full of personality!
My only real wish is a sprint button (holding Shift would be amazing) with all the backtracking and exploring.
Dude, how did we simultaniously left such similar comments?
That's hillarious
Thank you for the feed back! I considered it but thought it might make the suspense of the game a little less, but ill add if i update it! Thanks for playing my game! <3
Maybe I had chosen the wrong character to play as because the admiral was an old dude and painfully slow to walk around with. I liked the cute level art design.
These things tend to happen as you get old! But it reminds us to reflect on the moments we have left <3 Thanks for playing my game!