Thank you! I agree with you totally, some background mood music would have been the cherry on the cake. I also wanted to have a typewriter sound effect when the speech was being printed out to match with the typewriter style font, but I was worried that both the typewriter sound effect and background music would drown out the sound of the heartbeats. I'll include both in the next version with an option to adjust their volumes.
Thanks for playing, I really appreciate the feedback!
I built the dialogue system myself. I had a procedural framework in mind while developing it but I didn't have the time to implement it fully. I plan to build on it more in the next version so stay tuned for that :D
Hey, Thanks for playing! I'm glad that the story managed to grip you so well. The endings were left intentionally ambiguous. Each player is allowed to come to their own conclusions about who they think really did it.
I'd also like to mention that I have no formal training in programming or game design (or writing murder mysteries for that matter) and that this was my first game jam. A lot of this was new to me. I had originally planned to have multiple different responses based on the order you interrogate the suspects, how thoroughly you interrogate them and other factors as well as multiple endings based on those same factors but that dialogue system would have been too complex to build and the script too long to write within the time limit to submit. But for a first attempt at game jam, I think it was a good effort and I'm proud of it.
I absolutely plan to complete the game and add in all of those missing features and more after the Jam.
But if you really want I can message you privately with who really did it ;D
