Hello! I like the mystery genre and am new to mystery games. If it's helpful to the dev team to know, I played this in one sitting and solved the game in an hour!
I enjoyed using the yearbook to identify the bodies and since some of the characters/archetypes are distinct, I didn't spend much time going back and forth (although I did need to Google what the Grand National was!) I did think that the report part was a little more underwhelming than the initial investigation, but it also directed me to clues that I hadn't read fully during the identification portion. Having the forensics and arson tabs/buttons to reference was helpful as well! (As an aside, I found body #17 to be the hardest to identify...)
Shipping this whole in a single month is impressive enough and I would love to see how your team develops it further now that the jam is over! I'll make sure to keep an eye out for any future updates. :)
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Thanks very much for your kind comments. You are more than welcome to chip in with new ideas. :)
It's great to know how long it took you to complete the game---we couldn't estimate it reliably because we knew all the answers, but now we have an actual idea :).
Also, it's interesting to know that body #17 was difficult. We thought the most difficult ones would be the ones around the dance floor!
We agree about the report. We had a deadline to meet for the jam and couldn't put as much work on the report part as we would have liked to. Our executive decision under pressure was to make it functional enough for the game to be "finishable". But we know it doesn't look awesome, and also that some of the answers are a little ambiguous. So let's just say it still needs a bit of work. :)
Our idea is to keep improving the game. Who knows, maybe we'll launch it on steam at some point. This jam is being a great opportunity to collect feedback, so thanks very much again for taking the time to comment.