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A jam submission

Crimes Investigation Unit: The Orion MurderView game page

Become an investigator in a scifi world and use rewind technology to solve crimes.
Submitted by HDR Games, damoniano (@damonian0), Lynx, Doomed2Game — 3 minutes, 29 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#383.9633.963
Theme#1923.9013.901
Graphics#2253.8773.877
Overall#2463.5683.568
Innovation#4433.2963.296
Game Design#4993.3093.309
Fun#6293.0623.062

Ranked from 81 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

In what way does your game fit the theme?
In the city of Calaris, crime is rampant. Gangs fight for control of the city, and the United Federation tries its best to crackdown on criminals.

You are an investigator from the United Federation Crimes Investigation Unit.
You are accompanied by an officer droid and embark on an investigation that takes you to the Club Orion, a hot spot for local criminals.

Use your Rewind Module-equipped IF watch to rewind time, and find out how events really unfolded.

*** This game was done under 4 days, and is focused on a narrative experience, with fully voiced dialogue, with music and sound effects, so please set your expectations accordingly. ***

Did you write most of the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes! Except for a very few assets we got from the asset store.

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Submitted(+2)

Good idea and good implementation! You can say that there is a big team behind this game ahahahah  There is some small bug but, considering the entity of this project, it couldn't be otherwise. Excellent work ;) 

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+2)

Nice game with good graphics!

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

the story is cool! nice graphics, but in some cases its very buggy
 

in the same bug i even falled of the world, but other than that is very cool!

but i realy liked the idea! and if you want it can even be a full release out side of the jam!

Developer

Thank you! I think this bug is related to the lags you had. Everyone that said the game was laggy was also able to go out of the map. We will check it out. Thanks again, Hope you had fun :)

Submitted

yes i did had fun! this game is very cool and thx for listening!

Submitted(+2)

Great graphics and voice acting , I can really tell you guys are pros in that department. I personally would have liked to be more involved in the game and do some detective work. Like seduce Kelly wink wink.. but since your guys made it in 4 days its pretty good.

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+2)

Okay, so.
It didn't really feel like a game, since you have pretty much no input beside walking around and watching the story.

However, I still loved it.
The ambiance was nice (albeit could use some npc around, to make it seems more alive. Even more since it's supposed to be a wretched hive, which means a death and cops shouldn't be a rare sight).
I liked the story, it was nice and clear, with an original narrative, thanks to the rewind.

My only real gripes would be :
-The warp drive effect between scene is a bit too bright and too often used. Is there a technical reason for using it between each scene instead of opening new areas and letting the player move to where they should ?
-The text changing size while writing itself in dialogues and in the intro makes it a bit ugly and hard to read.

So, yeah, that's only some details.
Really great job.

Developer(+1)

Thanks for your feedback! We had to make each place in a different scene because the models and textures are large. In our updated version we didn't use the bright effect every time, only when you rewind. We also fixed the text issues in the updated version. We managed to fix all of this about an hour after the jam ended. If you want to try it, here is the google drive link: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1qcjHRZCSk7sYoF5583X9NVdF04kHXi9E&export=download.

Thank you again for playing, hope you enjoyed it :)

Submitted(+1)

I LOVE IT great story and graphics really BUT

i was glitching through the walls specially at last scene of bathroom i went outside the world through club walls 

game was laggy for me so dialogue was very late and not syncing at all

robot voice made him feel like generic worthless nobody

too short :/

Developer

Thanks for the feedback. The game has only high quality option so I guess your computer isn't powerful enough. I hope it didn't ruin the experience. I think the bugs with the colliders are a part of the lag.

About the length of the story. It was hard to even make that in less than 4 days..

I appreciate your feedback, but I really think you should try playing it without the lags to have the full experience.

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

agree about the lag 100%

I see you didn't mention anything about robot voice :D

Developer (1 edit)

I don't know what to say about it. It depends on what you like ;)
Anyway thanks for sharing your thoughts!

Submitted(+2)

Love your narrative drive for the game, the artsytle also went hand to hand with the narration, great one.

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+2)

Other than some finicky physics bugs where I was able to clip into places I shouldn't be, or pushing characters around and out of place by walking into them, this was a very immersive narrative style game. I loved the feel that the style has, like a retrofuturistic dystopian nightclub.

Great story game :]

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted(+2)

I love a good short story and you guys really did a great job. Props on the audio and voice acting. Not sure if you'll expand this later but if you do I'd be really exited to revisit this world.

Developer

Thank you :)

Submitted(+2)

i don't really know what to say uh great game :D

Developer (2 edits) (+1)

Thank you! I Hope you don't know what to say because you liked it ;)

Submitted(+1)

its so good my brain cant find the words to describe how good it is!

Submitted(+1)

Nice game! The voice acting gave the game another layer which gamejam games don't usually have. Cool mechanic but also a bit simple, anyway I've enjoyed it!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the feedback! Hope you enjoyed playing it :)

Submitted(+1)

The models, audio and graphics look incredible, great Job.

Sadly, the scenes feel too empty. Whats the point of having a murder in a club if in each scene there is gonna be only 3 different character? you could make it happen in a department and it would make more sense in my opinion. You should reuse the assets you have to add more life to the scene (for instance, add more police droids investigating the crime scene, just as decoration. add to the main police droid a hat to differentiate it, our you could even make like they share the same AI and know everything).

on the second scene (motive) I walked out of the room and couldnt get back in. i have no idea how i walked out, because there seemed to be a collider trying to prevent me from entering when i tried to return (it didnt prevent from leaving at all, though).

Overall, good game :D

Developer

Thanks for your feedback! The club is empty for two main reasons: 1. A murder has occurred there, the police is investigating and no one shall enter till the investigation is done. 2. We didn't have enough time. I'm not an artist, but I'm sure out artist worked a lot to create 3 complete rigged, textured and animated characters in less than four days. Try do it yourself ;).
The idea about adding more police droids is so cool and could add a lot to the game, but again wasn't possible to make during the very limited time we had. We tried to concentrate on the main story.
About the collider - this is so weird, first time I hear about it, and I actually didn't manage to do that myself :)

Thanks again for playing it and for telling us what you think!

Submitted(+2)

This is indeed a different game from most of the games in jam. Great work on models, textures/shaders and voice acting, I loved level transition animation  too (would be amazing for a 3D space shooter :D)

As for the story, combining rewind with a murder story was a  pretty unique take but since the focus of game is on story, I think there could be more depth to the story. But still great job for 4 days. This could make a great story if you work on it more.

Btw did you make the models in 4 days too?

Developer

Thanks for the detailed feedback! Yes, we made all of it during the game jam. We used very few assets from the assets store.

Submitted(+2)

Something different than most other game I rated, I liked it.

As someone already said, the text resizing hurts readability, scrolling text would be better.

Also, it seemed like some dialogue text boxes were out of sync with the voices (a bit before or after) sometimes. And there were some strange silence between the lines of differents characters (that reminded of some old games^^), I thought it hurt the flow of the dialogue and story.

Now, for the positive :

- A story ! Although short, it's a pleasant change from most game in this jam.

- Good audio (sound effects, music...) and graphics.

- And... voices ! That's a really nice touch, and combined the audio effects, it really gives life to the whole thing.

Impressed that you did this in 4 days, good job :)

Developer

Thank you! Unfortunately we have managed to fix all the bugs you told about only a few minutes after the jam ended. You can try the better version here. I hope you had some fun anyway :)

Submitted(+2)

You did  SOOOOOOOOOOO much in 1 week? Amazing work man.

Developer

Thank you! We actually started working late so we had even less than that ;)

Submitted
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Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+2)

First of all awesome what you've done in only 4 days! I love the wall texture a lot. Would totally put that into a night club. The case file at the beginning was hard to read. Maybe adjust the UI to automatically fit the screensize and center the text at the left, so you can easily read rolling text. Same with the textboxes. Whenever the text gets smaller, you get interrupted with reading. The voiceacting is fantastic btw! Not easy to do in this little timeframe. The Audio is peak! Super super cool! The style of the characters really have sth interesting. With more time I'm sure you can expand the environment and interactables. Really something cool you built here!

Developer

Thanks for the detailed feedback!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Very cool story, however I wish there was a little more interaction with the setting other than just walking from one cutscene to the next

Developer(+1)

Thank you! We made it clear that the game is focused on a narrative experience, with fully voiced dialogue, with music and sound effects. We wanted to focus on storytelling. If we had more time we would add some more interaction in the game. Hope you enjoyed it :)

Submitted(+1)

Yeah I did

Submitted(+2)

Very good game! I really love the animations and graphics. The sound effects are also well done. Congratulations and good job!

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+2)

Beautiful graphics! The game is smooth and polished, which makes it immersive and enhances the experience. The use of objectives was a nice touch to guide and keep players on track. I noticed the UI including the subtitles are too small to follow the dialogues. The objectives should also be consistent in size since a few of them look smaller than others. Overall, it was a great experience. Good job! 

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks! I appreciate your feedback.

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