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A jam submission

Smoke & MirrorsView game page

A diner, a detective, and a missing girl. Can you solve the case before it's too late?
Submitted by ShadowFlameDragn, Reyfly, tdcarroll, xcl2002-png, Themoonables, acog17, arrowtothejess (@arrowtothejess) โ€” 22 hours, 18 minutes before the deadline
Rated by 6 people so far
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Submitted(+1)

Oh My God. This is the coolest game i've played so far!!!

The art - amasing. Very atmospheric. And the combination of flat pixel art and 3d world is very well done! I adsolutely adore the typewriter dialogue box!

The music and sound effects - perfectly complimenting the artstyle!

The Main menu even, it's so cool how you made everyone in the credits into little photographs!

The writing - it was so cool reading all the articles! The ending sequence made me really nervous!

And the little details, like the coffee cup and the fact that things shift in your periphery - it adds up so perfectly to the overall spooky yet cozy detective vibe! This is an amasingly well done game, all of you people in the team did such a great job! :D

Submitted(+1)

Wow, the atmosphere on this one is through the roof!! It feels appropriately somber. It took me a second to understand how to navigate the game, but the mystery was intriguing once I figured it out!

Submitted(+1)

Genuinely scary game xD I love the atmosphere, it was so well done, especially the music and art was super immersive, and I loved the newspaper snippets. Does the game actually have a bad/good end? I still can't 100% tell if I got the right one or not xd
I did get some issues with the UI, for example sometimes the mouse would disappear and I had to navigate out then back into the game to get it working. Also the UI for the newspaper was offset so the click to flip pages bit was a bit hard.  But overall one of my fav games so far in the jam !

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Thanks for playing!! I'm glad you enjoyed the game. The art and sound team did a great job - I have no idea how they make it look and sound so good, but i will definitely let them know you liked it. As the UI dev I know we've had some issues with what you mentioned and hope to get it fixed soon. I think the text shifting is related to the aspect ratio of your screen.

There is a win/lose mechanic at the end. For example, if you lose, the final screen will be splattered in blood.

Thank you so much for the review and feedback!!

Submitted(+1)

I loved the vibe of the game so much! Beautiful assets and a fun premise. I will say that it did take me a bit longer than I'd like to admit to realize I could flip pages of the newspaper, so I was stuck for some time.

Developer (3 edits)

 Ha Ha, thanks for playing! the UI navigation is definitely something we noticed needed work. I think we will put it some arrow buttons to make it more clear. I will tell the art and asset magicians that you appreciate thier work!

thank you for the Feedback!!!

Submitted(+1)

This was a pretty interesting game! 

The gameplay was a little confusing as I didn't know I could turn pages. The mystery was intriguing though, my only complaint is that there is a little too much reading but I liked that it gave us clues into the world.

Overall, I enjoyed it. Keep up the great work!


Developer (3 edits) (+1)

Hi, thanks for playing! I agree, the pages are quite unclear at the moment. I think we will hopefully try to improve it by adding arrows soon!

Glad you liked the game and thank again for the review!!!