J'Accuse! by bobotast

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made by bobotast for Ludum Dare 45 (COMPO)

Your Tim Tams have been stolen, but you haven't a clue who dunnit! Everyone else can give you a clue, but a few disreputable individuals aren't telling the truth. When you think you know who it was, accuse them! And bask in sweet, sweet justice. J'accuse!

Made for Ludum Dare 45 -- theme: "start with nothing"

This is my first submission for Ludum Dare, and my first game made on Pico-8

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Ratings

Overall 250th 3.42⭐ 52🧑‍⚖️
Fun 193th 3.37⭐ 52🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 192th 3.44⭐ 52🧑‍⚖️
Theme 399th 2.91⭐ 52🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 222th 3.4⭐ 52🧑‍⚖️
Audio 326th 2.652⭐ 48🧑‍⚖️
Humor 114th 3.163⭐ 51🧑‍⚖️
Mood 241th 3.173⭐ 51🧑‍⚖️
Given 41🗳️ 50🗨️

Feedback

Kanonix
06. Oct 2019 · 17:00 UTC
Nice concept, it's a kind of remastered "guess who ?". Though, I find it pretty difficult, like I tried 5 times and I accused an innocent each time XD
iozsaygi
06. Oct 2019 · 20:15 UTC
It reminds the some game that i used to play but i don't quite remember that one. It was a detective themed game. Good job tho!
bjeaurn
06. Oct 2019 · 20:37 UTC
Fun art style, fun game idea. I like it, I had no clue how to solve it; so many people that could be lying. Great idea though!
🎤 bobotast
06. Oct 2019 · 20:49 UTC
@bjeaurn I'm glad you enjoyed it! Only about 1/4 of the people are lying, majority consensus has been correct for the games I've played.
CoOz
06. Oct 2019 · 22:15 UTC
Absolute fan of the moving legs and caracters graphisms! I had to try 6 or 7 times before accusing the bad guy! It's really fun! However what about the theme? :water_polo:
Stefanie Leitch
06. Oct 2019 · 22:17 UTC
Interesting idea, definitely enjoyed the graphics. Had a hard time figuring out how you were supposed to deduce the guilty party though. Overall, good job!
JediNeeson
06. Oct 2019 · 22:19 UTC
Great SFX and Graphics! It's Immersive to, GG well done !
William Carlisle
06. Oct 2019 · 22:24 UTC
That's Really Fun!
🎤 bobotast
06. Oct 2019 · 22:26 UTC
@cooz lol, it's tangentially related to the theme. You start with no idea who took your Tim Tams. And with no Tim Tams! But I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
Travis Carlen
06. Oct 2019 · 22:27 UTC
I do love the graphics style you had throughout, and it made me think a little as I tried to do a head count and remember exactly what "navy" meant in terms of color. Great Job!
888
06. Oct 2019 · 22:29 UTC
to have trusted one's advice and then realized i was lied to is the most i have felt myself to have nothing while playing through these games.
kuviman
06. Oct 2019 · 22:57 UTC
Hard. A lot of people are liars. They are not innocent at all, it is also a lie!
AdroitConceptions
06. Oct 2019 · 23:12 UTC
interesting air style. took a few moments to figure out how to 'talk' to people to get the clues.

one problem I had was the 100% reliance on color (I have a red-green color deficiency - various color blindness-es account for 8% of men, 4.5% of people world wide), something to consider for a color matching game.
Bocodillo
06. Oct 2019 · 23:15 UTC
I love the crazy walk animations. Never managed to find the culprit though, guess my Tim Tams are gone forever.
svyatozar
06. Oct 2019 · 23:19 UTC
can't win it! :-)
CalLavicka
06. Oct 2019 · 23:29 UTC
Fun little game! I like the art style you chose. It would be cool if you got to ask people for hints rather than them giving the hints automatically. As in you could ask for shirt/pants/shoe color and have more player choice in the game. It may make it more interesting.
MusicBlox
06. Oct 2019 · 23:36 UTC
Not my Tim Tams!
This game is just ridiculous fun. Frantically running around the black square and listening to people randomly shouting what the perpetrator was wearing. A tooltip for the accuse button could have been nice, but the game is brilliant the way it is right now.
Xacur
07. Oct 2019 · 00:28 UTC
Very good, ingenious game. I like the art style and how fast you can play it. It's hard though.
cirno
07. Oct 2019 · 00:36 UTC
The idea of this game is quite fun. It is not a logical problem but you need to investigate different people and find out the truth most people hold. This makes the game different from most similar games I have seen.
Iconocatstudio
07. Oct 2019 · 01:55 UTC
Love the walking animation, it's too good! It's a good concept, and a nice play on the theme. Well done!
blobo
07. Oct 2019 · 02:39 UTC
Oh man i'm a terrible detective. I can't figure out who's telling the truth and who's lying!
karlipoppins
07. Oct 2019 · 02:42 UTC
Love this little PICO-8 entry! Fun little concept, I actually had to get my notebook out to win the game :) Love the execution and simplicity, I think you can game the system by just checking if 2 people are giving the same (item/color) combo to know if it's the truth, but I may be wrong?

One of my favorite entries so far!
khaotom
07. Oct 2019 · 02:58 UTC
The walk animations are funny, really like them. I like the minimal visual presentation too. I caught two perps on the first try each. Maybe I'm destined to become a detective?
🎤 bobotast
07. Oct 2019 · 02:58 UTC
@karlipoppins I'm glad you enjoyed it! How it works is, there are 31 other people (besides yourself). Seven are liars, and one of those liars is the thief. Everyone else gives a random detail about the thief, but liars give a random detail about some other random person.

So if two or more people give the same detail, it's probably right. But there is a (small) possibility, that two or more liars will happen to give the same (incorrect) detail.
6smith
07. Oct 2019 · 03:01 UTC
being colorblind makes this pretty hard haha
Yayiest
07. Oct 2019 · 11:38 UTC
Nice game! It took me a while to work out that X was the accuse button, does it mention the controls anywhere? But after that managed to guess the correct person first try! :smile: I also really like the walking animation.
Kazatan
07. Oct 2019 · 14:37 UTC
I like these sorts of deduction games :smiley: and i love the crazy spaghetti legs :laughing:

It would have been awesome to have a little background music to add to the tension but otherwise this is a solid little game, nice work! :thumbsup:
randdir
07. Oct 2019 · 16:56 UTC
Really nice concept, loved it really fun to play keep it up :)
Lukvasando
07. Oct 2019 · 20:53 UTC
I didnt get the tim tams!
W0lfEnstein
07. Oct 2019 · 21:30 UTC
Cute graphics and animation, interesting and simple gameplay. Enjoyable!
starvingindie
07. Oct 2019 · 21:40 UTC
Neat little game. I found that some of the clues were contradictory, was this on purpose? All in all I enjoyed this pico :) great work!
Danielcmcg
07. Oct 2019 · 22:07 UTC
Very good art style, I'm pretty bad at it though =P.
simXple
07. Oct 2019 · 22:27 UTC
Nice artstyle, and game idea! But quite hard to solve.
netmute
08. Oct 2019 · 13:50 UTC
Loved the idea! A bit like playing werewolf with your friends :)
I just walked around and tried to find common clues, then accused the first person who claimed the opposite xD

Edit: You even randomized it each time! *highfive
Raomer
08. Oct 2019 · 18:06 UTC
Yeah, got my tim tams on the first attempt :) Maybe i was just lucky.
Interesting take on the theme. The walk animation is nuts, i love it!
People with difficulties telling colors apart will have a problem, i would say.
lesinvisible
08. Oct 2019 · 20:20 UTC
I don't know how I did it, but i WON, great game, 10/10!
agrdev
09. Oct 2019 · 20:22 UTC
Really fun! Characters design is great :D Very solid entry.
F1Krazy
11. Oct 2019 · 20:38 UTC
On the one hand, this is short even by Ludum Dare standards. On the other hand, the fact it's randomised gives it a level of replayability that very few LD entries have. Gameplay-wise, it's simple, but tricky: you gotta try and chat to everyone, keep track of the most common colours they mention, and then try and find whoever matches that description. I love the stylised character designs, they have real personality to them.

And it's always good too see other people using PICO-8 for this!
Hcursino
14. Oct 2019 · 10:08 UTC
Aaay! A game that is different! Good job at this one, it was quite fun and I just LOVE those legs animation! hahahaha Great game.