Tiny Suspect by Prolich

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made by Prolich for Ludum Dare 56 (JAM)

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Your job is to watch suspects through CCTV screens, watching suspects in real time. Armed with a list of clues and detailed suspect profiles (photo, age, height, etc.), your goal is to identify the criminal. Each clue narrows down the list. Use your deduction skills to match the clues with the profiles, eliminate innocent suspects, and find the person who fits the description before it's too late.

Controls:

Arrow keys or A/D on a keyboard

Made by 2 people. Rotten Horse Games

Ratings

Overall 221th 3.895⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Fun 348th 3.618⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 550th 3.295⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1067th 2.026⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 165th 4.295⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Mood 114th 4.103⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Given 44🗳️ 26🗨️

Feedback

starvingindie
07. Oct 2024 · 21:14 UTC
Great art, great ambiance, and a simple mechanic with nice overall progression. Great job!
AxolotlUwU
07. Oct 2024 · 22:54 UTC
It's so awesome!
kenjimarcio
08. Oct 2024 · 01:06 UTC
Love the illustration and style
DarSor
08. Oct 2024 · 12:29 UTC
very good and interesting! I'm glad that I passed the game completely)
onlysleptfor4hourstdy
08. Oct 2024 · 20:30 UTC
I really had a fun time playing it. surprisingly i got a few times wrong even wif sufficient time.
LyaMgtt
09. Oct 2024 · 10:00 UTC
Loooove the ambiance, the graphics are amazing and I love the gameplay :)
Nurakim
09. Oct 2024 · 10:11 UTC
I like the gameplay
MihNo
09. Oct 2024 · 14:03 UTC
Cool game!
RichardGots123
09. Oct 2024 · 14:04 UTC
Decent one
imberny
09. Oct 2024 · 14:06 UTC
Very visually impressive! The ambience is great! I appreciate the fact that the suspects are procedurally generated. I didn't understand that until the fourth arrest. Good job!
Historymaker118
09. Oct 2024 · 14:07 UTC
I made a mistake one time and arrested the wrong suspect but I was otherwise able to beat the game. I really enjoy logical deduction puzzles like this and so I had a lot of fun playing your game, even if the constant ticking clock was a bit stressful. It's a shame you didn't really make a game that meets the theme of the event, however I still like what you managed to create and I'm glad you took part and submitted a finished product.
Game-mon
09. Oct 2024 · 14:21 UTC
Great game, looks really good! Audio ambiance is really nice. The puzzles are quite good! If you expand the game, here's what I would suggest: have several documents/source of information to look at. Maybe here, it would be interesting to NOT have the photos on the documents but just on the TV, so that you actually have to search for the information you want. Like: does suspect 1 have glasses? lemme check on my tv. You could have other mechanics like that, maybe using different medium: for example, would be very cool to be able to listen to voicemail, or read e-mails, or look at photos. Just throwing a bunch of ideas here, dunno what would work though.

Anyway a really cool entry, there's so much potential!
ChrisBeck
09. Oct 2024 · 14:30 UTC
Really liked this, felt very Papers Please. It took me a while to understand how to use the TV screen to blank off suspects I'd crossed off but that made it easier to keep track of. Really good stuff!
skbadger
09. Oct 2024 · 14:44 UTC
Really fun game, the metronome and crackling really give that feeling that you're racing against the clock like an old school detective. Great entry
LDJam user 372231
09. Oct 2024 · 14:46 UTC
Very beautiful graphics and sound design. I liked the game overall, but I wish there were a bit more challenge. I just kept receiving clues that made everything crystal clear. But again overall it is a great entry!
cliva
09. Oct 2024 · 14:52 UTC
The game strongly reminded me of "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" the same vibes. By the end, it becomes a bit boring. I wished that the suspects would give some clues about themselves on the TV. Or that you could ask them questions and receive truthful or not-so-truthful answers. Maybe a polygraph?

But this is a good project for jam!
Lussard Studio
09. Oct 2024 · 14:54 UTC
I really like the concept. The atmosphere and the graphics are great !
Nice job !
bhashimoto
09. Oct 2024 · 15:12 UTC
Liked the concept and art. It has a Guess Who mixed with Papers Please, the timer adds pressure.

Improvement suggestions:
- make it possible to deduce without all the clues and something to make it relevant (a par score, or some cost related to clues)
- add something to the screen so that it makes you want/need to look at it. I found myself mostly going arround the suspect list

Very cool
BroHeartTTV
09. Oct 2024 · 15:29 UTC
Top marks on everything except for theme here, this was really fun and I struggled on the last 3 levels.

Beaten on day 11!
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I didn't really make use of the TV so that might have helped, I just went through in order of suspects and revealed all the clues then worked down each list.
Artyom Volkov
09. Oct 2024 · 16:22 UTC
Nice tiny game, with good art. Gameplay wise it's fine, however it doesn't have any challenge. Opening clues feels pointless, as there's no obvious risk. I think, it would be better, if some of the clues took away time for opening them. Alternatively, some information about suspects can be hidden and to open it the player pay with time.
magopian
09. Oct 2024 · 17:05 UTC
I've completed the game! It was fun, interesting and kinda challenging. Love the ambiance, the sounds, the graphics and the mecanics which makes me think of "who am I".
Congratulations!
LilieBagage
09. Oct 2024 · 21:48 UTC
What an efficient game!
I really liked the original gameconcept, the whole deduction principle works beautifully, and the difficulty is superbly balanced. I particularly liked the fact that I couldn't see the clock and was stressed by the little music in my ears as the deadline approached! (it reminded me of Outer Wilds ahah :smile: ).
The graphics have an identifiable feel, and the sound design is minimalist, just right.
On the other hand, it's a bit far removed from the theme, but that's really the only flaw I found in this very successful game! Well done!!
monkseal
10. Oct 2024 · 01:43 UTC
would be nice to have an elimination mechanic, and add more risk to the reveal of the clues
SparklingSushi
10. Oct 2024 · 17:47 UTC
Cool and engaging submission!
I managed to finish and really enjoyed it :)
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macar0ni1
10. Oct 2024 · 23:18 UTC
Nice simple and tiny game with one, but cool and solid mechanic :> Love it!
Nicolas Guillot
11. Oct 2024 · 00:06 UTC
Great art !
Roroto Sic
12. Oct 2024 · 18:12 UTC
fun revisit of a " Guess Who ?" the game from our childhood :)

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