Love the style of the game, and this is probably the most fully realized murder mystery I've seen in this jam. I'm always a big fan of the Disco Elysium style of dialogue trees, and the investigation itself was pretty fun as well (made better by the beautiful artwork). Really impressive, especially given that it was made in just a week.
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Murder at Crandock Hall's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #23 | 4.579 | 4.579 |
| Audio | #55 | 3.877 | 3.877 |
| Overall | #68 | 3.830 | 3.830 |
| Theme | #84 | 4.158 | 4.158 |
| Enjoyment | #193 | 3.702 | 3.702 |
| Gameplay | #253 | 3.474 | 3.474 |
| Innovation | #499 | 3.193 | 3.193 |
Ranked from 57 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
It is a murder mystery game and you can't trust anyone. Even if they are your family.
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Everything was made during the week of the jam besides a plugin for dialogue which was heavily modified
How many people worked on the game?8
Comments
The beginning seemed a bit drawn out to me, but overall the concept is interesting, as is the art style. Great job!
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I Wanna Be The Chill GuyI'm so STUNNED by this game, it's incredible you managed to make all of this in just one week! I really love the aesthetic of the game, it fits amazingly the theme and it's really well done (can tell you put a lot of effort in it); I liked the writing a lot too, I found it enough straightforward but still enigmatic, so perfect for this kind of games. A really big good job and good luck for the future, I think with more than 1 week of work this can become an incredible finished game <3
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Listen, Hero!Great game with a nice artstyle, fitting music, cool gameplay & deduction techniques. I wasn't really sure how to progress after reaching the code sections (I couldn't find the answers of figure them out myself) to get into the laptop or safe, so I randomly guessed & got the bad ending. Apart from that (the answer might've been obvious & I missed it), very cool!❤️
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Error 404Enjoyed it overall, thought the characters were well written but got stumped on how to open the safe, which seemed like the only way forward after talking to everyone, looking at everyone's suspicious item, and getting into the gun safe. I wish the note book had been tutorialized slightly as i didn't think to take notes until i eventually clicked on it and saw that was something i could do. Also, unsure how to progress i accidentally ended the game when accusing Robert of blackmail, because i guess i thought the accusing of something not explicitly related to the inheritance would open up a new dialouge tree or something. In hindsight the tab is literally marked 'Conclude' but all the different options of how to combine the info and people made me think it would give me more content instead of instantly ending the game, Also call me a casual, but, at least in the context of a jam, i wished i coulda gone back and brute forced or tried to find more without having to restart the whole game. The artwork and style was nice as well, and I played for about an hour.
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HOMUNCULUSI love point and click games and this was non-the-less one that I really enjoed playing, from start to finish. The atmosphere is really good and the art is amazing.
Though we're here to get feedback, here's mine:
Some text that appeared when interacting with objects was cut and had to manually scroll to see it all; also about text, really not that deep is the fact that I could continue on only one line of the note book without starting a new line. Now the important stuff, I think there might have been a bug or at least me not being able to solve the puzzle of the book in the bookshelf even though the tubes connected the 2 red parts correctly; so I might have missed in-game hints about how to chiper the safe, that said I can't say for sure if that puzzle was possible or not without a hint. Other than that, awesome game, I played it about 1:30 hours :D
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Better Left Unsaid (J)Thank you for playing! Yeah some of these things we've already clocked in and will solve in an update. About the wires, all the wires need to be connected in order to solve the puzzle not just the red part, in hindsight we should have explained this better. Any ways thankyou for all the feedback! :D
[SPOILER ALERT] Wow I thought a caesar cipher was way too niche. That said it was satisfying to crack. The hint besides the lock is worded a bit differently than in the safe though. I think "the length of [crandock]" is a lot more useful than "number".
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Birds Aren't RealI feel like I've just played the winning submission?! Really really good job everyone, I just recently played Type Help and The Red Pearls of Borneo, and I genuinely think this stacks up against them, and you made this in a WEEK!
Sensational work everyone!
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No-oneogramsLove to see another disco-like game! Crazy polished for having been made in a week.
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AbsolutionI really like the UI and art, the music was quite atmospheric. The dialogue UI reminds me of Disco Elysium... I would have liked a way to progress the text with spacebar or something like that.. You have added a lot of dialogue and content into this. very well done! who was the anonymous inheritor... it is a mystery...
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Decide in DungeonThis is quite a nice suspenseful murder mystery game, quite love the art and the writing! Great game
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Is that you?Super impressed with the murder mystery theme and execution. Some QOL improvements would be to press Enter or the Spacebar to advance the dialogue. Also, the Charlie Brown talk kinda knocked me out of the murder mystery vibe. I would def play more games like this. I enjoyed it alot.
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Oops! All MimicsThe art, the writing, the ability to type notes FREELY in the game? I love that by the way, I've never seen a game do it but always wanted it to be a thing. This game is awesome. Can't believe you did it in a week.
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The Search -- Game Jam EditionReally great game to everyone who worked on this. I liked the color palette and dialogue, the story was interesting as well as the puzzles that came with. Great job!
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