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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(+1)

wow the game looks really nicee.. did you made everything alone? feels like you work a lot on this and it was fun and interesting experience. feels a bit buggy but overall nice. if you have time please drop by my game;)

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+2)

Well this is an incredibly unique submission! I really liked the art style and the whole vibe was really interesting. Props for doing your own voice acting! Our game was basically entirely voice acting too so we know how much effort it can take to write the scripts and get everything right. Really well done! I hope you expand on it after the jam, I'd be very interested to see where this goes!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for your feedback! I really appreciate it. It's nice to hear you made voice acting too, and that you know about the effort it takes. Thanks a lot!

Submitted(+1)

Visual effects and voice acting was very nice. Normally I like story driven games, but usually they have a certain level of interactability. Since you couldn't interact with anything it felt more like a short movie. Also I didn't feel like the controls were very elegant.

I understand that 14 days aren't a lot of time when you aim to make a visually engaging game with voice acting. But this just didn't feel like a game to me at this stage of development. It could turn out great though. 14 days just wasn't enough. 

Developer

Thanks for the feedback. 14 days? The jam lasted 7 days, and we only had 4 days, and yes 4 days are not enough. Hope you enjoyed it anyway :)

Submitted

 I have no idea why I said  days xD I obviously meant  7 days

Submitted(+2)

Amazing! Would love to play a full version of this, with all the investigation and other cases! Nice work with the voices too!
Really great job! Congratulations!

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+1)

The environment, sound and music, and voice acting are really nice, and the use of the theme is good, but it didn't really fell like a game, more like a follow the story (which was cool but not enough for me).

Developer

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.
It is clear that not everyone likes storytelling games but it shouldn't affect your judgment. I appreciate your feedback anyway, hope you enjoyed it :)

Submitted(+1)

The voice acting is good, as well as the general idea, but I think it's more of a proof of concept than anything.

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks for the feedback! I think more time would allow us to do more than that.

Submitted(+1)

Nice game and it stuck to the rewind them but there was a lot of bugs but a lot but a rly good game overall for only seven day and im sure this game can go far

Developer

Hi! Thanks for the feedback! We actually had less that 4 days.. About the bugs, a lot of bugs? I heard about two bugs that occur mostly on computers that are not powerful enough. Anyway, if we had more time we would do some optimization. Thanks!

Submitted

when your in the office you can get out and then it bugs and you cant get in again in the map that you see the dead body you can easily get out of the map from diffrent places

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Good voice acting, animations, graphics and storytelling, but lack of interactions. Collision detection or movement is buggy. You can easily go out of the map in some places. 

Developer

"It's not a bug. It's a feature". Just kidding ;) Thanks for your feedback.

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

For being made in 4 days I'm really impressed but I must say I would've wanted to do more than just walk around :) And the transitions were a little to bright coming from a dark room. 

Developer

Thanks for the feedback! I guess 4 days are not enough to make it perfect ;)

Submitted(+1)

You're welcome! Yeah but still very good for 4 days :) And feel free to play my game as well :) 

Submitted(+2)

Amazing job! good storytelling, I would have enjoyed to take part of action but its a very good game! loved the concept and how you fit the theme. Great job!

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+2)

Amazing! I honestly can't believe how you were able to make this game just under 4 days!

Great story telling, loved the voice lines, they really helped me get into the game! I also like the concept of your game!

The transition when using IF clock was super cool, but at times I kind of felt like it was a little too slow, but that's just a minor thing.

Overall a great game and given the fact that you made this game under 4 days, it's just super impressive.

Developer

Thank you! I really appreciate it :)

Submitted(+2)

A great game. I don't know how you did it in a week. But awesome game. I really liked it. Great job!

Could you please take the time to rate my game too? Its not as good as yours but it would mean a lot to me if you did.

Developer

Thank you! We actually had less than a week ;). Yeah I'll play and rate your game soon :)

Developer

Thanks for taking the time to play and rate, I'll check yours out as well!

Submitted(+2)

Very cool story, It was executed quite well :) do you plan on working on this after the jam is over?

Developer

Thank you! Right now we have no plans for after the jam, but if it gets a good rating maybe we will :)

Submitted(+2)

Amazing how much you were able to include during the jam time frame. I especially am impressed with the effects you put in. That's usually put on the backburner, but they did a great job in helping to immerse the player in your world. Great job!

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+1)

Its a cool idea that was done really well the story and narrative a pretty fun and the graphics are good too

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+1)

I love this game, its very nice, but my only thing I don't like, is the lack of gameplay. I feel like I am watching a animated short instead of playing a game because all you do is talk to the robot bartender, see what happened, and walk to your destination. Watching the rewinded scenes feel like watching a clip. The presentation and graphics and audio is great, but I just feel like it lacks gameplay.

Developer

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(+2)

This game excels in many ways, from the story telling, immersion, graphics, audio... The thing I missed is some more gameplay depth, but this is just personal taste.  Great job, this probably has taken a lot of work.

Developer(+1)

Thank you! I appreciate it :)

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!

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