Arson Investigator by Josh Riley

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made by Josh Riley for LD27 (COMPO)
In a party full of people, try to find the arsonist who starts a fire every ten seconds. On top of that, make sure you don't let the fire get out of hand, or the party will be ruined!

Controls:
Movement: WASD
Space: Toggle Fire Extinguisher
Enter: Pause
Left Click: Mark Suspects
Right Click: Accuse someone

Have fun!

Ratings

Coolness 66% 3
Overall 3.43 224
Audio 2.82 394
Fun 3.41 192
Graphics 2.66 694
Humor 2.68 318
Innovation 3.73 109
Mood 3.06 313
Theme 3.17 566

Feedback

frankbsad
26. Aug 2013 · 02:10 UTC
I really liked it. Pretty hard though.
nathanhoffer
26. Aug 2013 · 02:10 UTC
Great work! I really liked it. Nice idea with the tagging feature and such.
Xatulu
26. Aug 2013 · 02:11 UTC
Liked the graphics, really fun gameplay mechanics, not too easy!
Tork
26. Aug 2013 · 02:11 UTC
Liked the game, a little racist (all my bads were black XD)
I would have made it with lvls with less people in the start, also I didn't find the theme in the game
Keevor
26. Aug 2013 · 02:13 UTC
I like the concept, and the execution wasn't bad either. A good entry!
Sink
26. Aug 2013 · 02:15 UTC
Cool idea, I like how people can spread the fire around the room. Makes for some interesting gameplay.
CTATZ
26. Aug 2013 · 02:28 UTC
Awesome game! Could definitely be expanded into a full fledged game.
flamecow
26. Aug 2013 · 02:58 UTC
Wow, this is very nice. I'm surprised how well polished it is.
matthias_zarzecki
26. Aug 2013 · 03:18 UTC
Ha, this is a great idea. Reminds me of Spy-Party, only starring a lunatic spraying everybody with a fire-extinguisher :)
Jorqell
26. Aug 2013 · 03:21 UTC
Brilliant concept.
LevelUpJordan
26. Aug 2013 · 03:34 UTC
I really like these Where's Wally/Waldo type games. Yours is no exception!
TinyWorlds
26. Aug 2013 · 08:16 UTC
Good idea! Since you used Unity, mind to provide executables for Linux and Mac (it did run under Linux using Wine, though).
The graphics are ok, but not really beautiful. The music song is short and thus repetitive.
N427
26. Aug 2013 · 23:30 UTC
Really fun and original, can get REALLY hard when there's a lot of people though.
doonay21
27. Aug 2013 · 19:06 UTC
Hard one. Difficulty level OK, and the music is also good :)
AdventureIslands
27. Aug 2013 · 19:07 UTC
Fun game! Not easy even on easy setting, but it was interesting take on the theme.
refreshcreations
27. Aug 2013 · 22:57 UTC
Hehe, I' m impressed by the fire retardant piano ;) I mean, I totally didn't at one point chose to let the party erupt into a massive inferno and giggle mischevously to myself. (Well, maybe a little)

Yup, I enjoyed playing through the game, it's pretty tough on the normal and hard settings, I kept getting the wrong person on those ones, easy mode was certainly more forgiving but still offered a challenge, kudos on adding the difficulty settings btw. Helps to expand the audience of players with differing skill levels, some nice sound effects with the fire erupting!

Overall, a fun, quick game with some decent challenge, me likey!
tchem
29. Aug 2013 · 01:17 UTC
creative and original,,, beautiful work ...
Reverend Speed
30. Aug 2013 · 13:23 UTC
Amusing, thoughtful game. Minesweeper with people. Great theme - with a little more work (polish, settings) this could really be something great!
ashdnazg
30. Aug 2013 · 15:08 UTC
That's one of the most original games I've seen this compo! Well done :)
Diogo Muller
31. Aug 2013 · 15:42 UTC
Nice! A bit hard at first, if you try to rush, but really nice idea.
Jan Marcano
03. Sep 2013 · 15:22 UTC
Nice take on the theme!

I found it quite easy on both EAsy and Normal difficulties, but only because the arsonist start more than one fire and I could often look at the group of people near the starting fire and follow them until I saw someone running and doing additional fires. So if they would make only ONE fire and then start running like if he was anybody else, it would be significantly harder overall.

On hard my hardest problem was putting out the fires, I won only because I had two suspects and one of them died so it had to be the other one :P

Nice work overall! Had fun with this neat little concept :)
Lianne Booton
12. Sep 2013 · 03:12 UTC
Tough game but really enjoyable. A full version with nicer graphics and different settings would be quite fun I think :)
MrBlade
14. Sep 2013 · 04:46 UTC
Amazing work! This is such a great game. I did all of the difficulties! I think it is a bit unfair that if anyway runs through fire, then their hair becomes red.