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Law Simulator by bernardery

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made by bernardery for LD32 (JAM)
Defense attorney Mona Goodwin faces the most difficult case of her career! A prominent family is found murdered; can she prove that the butler didn't do it? All she has to go on are a handful of unconventional weapons which the real killer might have used. Mona Goodwin must valiantly defend her client and demonstrate how these strange items could have been used to commit the most heinous of crimes!

Cutscenes: Click to progress
Level 1: Click and drag to fling
Level 2: Left click to lower, right click to raise
Level 3: Click to toss

If you get stuck, press R to reset the level!

Friggin' Games presents Law Simulator
Written by David Bernard Houck
Constructed by Michael Webbon and Brundon Smith
Original art by Erica Speegle
Music by Wahrk, Brother Android, and public domain jazz legends
http://friggingames.com/
Web http://friggingames.com/Ludum32Finished.html
Windows http://friggingames.com/LawSimWin.zip
OS/X http://friggingames.com/LawSimMac.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=47646

Ratings

Coolness 37% 1769
Overall(Jam) 2.86 810
Fun(Jam) 2.81 674
Humor(Jam) 3.25 327
Innovation(Jam) 3.19 451
Mood(Jam) 3.00 549
Theme(Jam) 3.29 563

Feedback

Techblogogy
21. Apr 2015 路 14:33 UTC
Better Call Saul! This is an interesting game, great job
Liam :D
21. Apr 2015 路 14:35 UTC
Hello, the Windows executable did not work for me. A dll failed to load using the windows executable. I assume it is a compile-time error, so recompiling should fix it.

error text: "Unable to load mono library from "C:/Users/liam/Desktop/LawSimWin/LawSim_Data/Mono/mono.dll" (error = 126)."
馃帳 bernardery
21. Apr 2015 路 14:45 UTC
Thanks, Techblogogy!
Liam, I spoke with the guy who does computers and he says "make sure he fully unzips the folder, rather than just double-clicking the executable."
Liam :D
21. Apr 2015 路 15:20 UTC
Yeah, I subsequently realized the issue was on my end.
Dining Philosopher
21. Apr 2015 路 15:55 UTC
Such a huge file, but no game! Also a 'failed to load mono' error..
Smiley
21. Apr 2015 路 17:30 UTC
Unity Player crashed on OSX 10.10 in the first cutscene :(
Awpteamoose
21. Apr 2015 路 17:49 UTC
Doesn't work on my Windows either.
asobi tech
22. Apr 2015 路 09:14 UTC
Quite like the inner monologue of Mona.
The mini games were a little confusing, I couldn't work out to do the fishing part.
MasterOfNaN
22. Apr 2015 路 11:00 UTC
Absolutely love the writing - great stuff! Thanks!
Great overall structure of being story-heavy punctuated with totally different one-off mini-games, works really well.
Couldn't for the life of me do the fishing pole game unfortunately. (web version)
Now I'm just off to re-read Infinite Jest... honest.
馃帳 bernardery
22. Apr 2015 路 12:46 UTC
I actually had a lot of trouble with the fishing pole game as well! My other team members seemed to find it easy enough so I thought it was just me. IIRC what worked for me was lowering it as far as possible between his legs then raising it while jiggling it around.
dunin
22. Apr 2015 路 13:22 UTC
Doesn't work for me on windows. Unzipped the file and has the problem with loading the .dll
asobi tech
22. Apr 2015 路 13:26 UTC
@bernardery oo-eer, between his legs, raising it and jiggling it around?!?!?!?!
Reis Mahnic
22. Apr 2015 路 17:44 UTC
Really great take on the genre! I loved the way you interspersed action elements in, instead of just having dialogue trees. Great job! Good music and art too.
Taldius
22. Apr 2015 路 17:45 UTC
Nice game, I doesn't like reading that much but the mini-games were fun.
Good job!
SpringCabal
22. Apr 2015 路 17:55 UTC
Got to the garden, was good up until then, pushed what looked like a barbacue around for a while with frisbees, fell off the edge of the map and am now stuck in purgatory. Not bad.
TeamQuadratic
23. Apr 2015 路 00:21 UTC
Cool concept! Unfortunately I had a lot of issues with the controls on the first minigame. It was really hard to aim and I couldn't beat the level. Still, good work!
abuzreq
24. Apr 2015 路 21:06 UTC
there were clear difference in the art styles of the story and the minigames.
I liked how the animation of the characters were depicting what they were feeling .
good work though
ftvs
25. Apr 2015 路 16:36 UTC
I found the writing entertaining enough to go through the entire thing. I may not know who Dean Koontz is, but it was clear that it was a jab against the author, heh.

The minigame sections were presented with great humour and the jazz soundtrack accentuated the ridiculousness even more. The final minigame was confusing because I could not tell which the venus trap or the dog was. It could have been shorter and still got the joke across. Overall the minigames could have been a lot easier (especially since they seemed to be quick jokes anyway) and provided clearer instructions in-game, instead of being forced to refer to the description.

The fishing minigame was problematic on the web player because right clicking for the context menu was enabled.
gelisam
27. Apr 2015 路 13:55 UTC
Interesting story and dialog. Had problems with the fishing pole minigame that froze. Loved the idea of interlacing the story with minigames.

(rating and comment by my teammate Fran莽ois Mayrand)
jukimv1986
06. May 2015 路 10:52 UTC
Niceeeee! Great storytelling, absolutely! However there is a typo with "intergity"... Flimsy proofreader! The minigames are a treat too.
Unconventional take on the theme but yet refreshing. Guilty/5