Detective Awesomepants by xel

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made by xel for LD27 (COMPO)
Experience the epic adventure of Detective Awesomepants as he tackles difficult cases assigned to him by the world police! Travel to exotic locations. Meet unique characters. Put bad guys in jail! All in a days work for the greatest detective around.

Ratings

Coolness 71% 3
Overall 4.20 7
Audio 3.27 161
Fun 3.97 19
Graphics 4.15 43
Humor 4.38 3
Innovation 3.77 93
Mood 3.78 45
Theme 4.14 16

Feedback

DanHayesGamer
26. Aug 2013 · 02:23 UTC
That was awesome. Finalist material in my opinion!
VictorGrunn
26. Aug 2013 · 02:37 UTC
Excellent job, one of the most creative and theme-focused I've seen so far.
douglasv
26. Aug 2013 · 02:39 UTC
Awesome game dude
Ravetcofx
26. Aug 2013 · 02:50 UTC
I love murdur mysteries! Love this game man, best I have found thus far!
Yaguar
26. Aug 2013 · 04:46 UTC
Some seriously awesome pants.
Rabbits...
26. Aug 2013 · 04:48 UTC
That was amazing, I think his pants were somewhat awesome though..
zillix
26. Aug 2013 · 04:49 UTC
wonderful. what a great experience and presentation. well done!
Steve
26. Aug 2013 · 04:49 UTC
Awesome game!
Lancey
26. Aug 2013 · 04:50 UTC
Really great submission!
otresnjak
26. Aug 2013 · 05:29 UTC
Everything about this is wonderful.
RadJor
26. Aug 2013 · 05:36 UTC
haha... vintage dagger- I immediately said "where's the hipster?"

Funny game. Very easy of course, but looks good, sounds good, tastes good.
caranha
26. Aug 2013 · 08:34 UTC
That was a very well polished game, and you are a great sprite artist :-)

The game was funny, although I couldn't quite make the reasoning for some of the puzzle solutions.

Here is my playthrough on this game, as you requested! (sorry for the sound quality!) http://youtu.be/qbbJssZ8WMY
CustomPhase
26. Aug 2013 · 08:48 UTC
haha, awesome
Steve
26. Aug 2013 · 12:57 UTC
'RadJor says ...
Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:41am

haha... vintage dagger- I immediately said "where's the hipster?"'

That's exactly what I thought too!

This game really is excellent.
small trouble
26. Aug 2013 · 13:08 UTC
Awesome game, Captain Awesomepants would be proud.
Crowbeak
26. Aug 2013 · 13:23 UTC
This was really pleasant. I love the graphics.
TobiasW
26. Aug 2013 · 13:29 UTC
Oh my, were to begin! The amazing pixel art? The stylish choice of font in the funny titles? The dialogue? The humourous sitatutations? The riddle solving, sometimes just really funny and sometimes you have to think a little? I really don't know - I love everything.

All the riddles made perfect sense for me - except the beach. What's the reasoning there?

The only thing I'm not too sure about is the music. I'd suggest you give http://abundant-music.com a try - in my opionion, it's vastly superior to autotracker.

You did a really good job there, and I'm rooting for you to be in a top 3 list! Justice always wins!
Hypnohustla
26. Aug 2013 · 16:26 UTC
Awesome game! Really great use of the 10 seconds theme. Always love a good murder mystery! :)
Ludipe
26. Aug 2013 · 17:40 UTC
@TobiasW :"All the riddles made perfect sense for me - except the beach. What's the reasoning there?" There's a shoe next to the corpse and the murderer is missing one.

Awesome game. I played it a few times to make sure I understood every case. You did an amazing job! (Overall 5/5)
TobiasW
26. Aug 2013 · 17:54 UTC
@Ludipe: Oh! I just played it again, and it says "a bloody boot". I, erm, thought it said "a bloody boat". Like a toy boat or something. Please excuse me, I'll be busy sitting in the corner feeling stupid.
tripleVisionGames
26. Aug 2013 · 20:31 UTC
Awesome in pretty much every respect. Clever little puzzles although I did just click them all for the dojo guys :S but come up with more of these scenes and I'm pretty sure you've got a hit on your hands
amidos2006
26. Aug 2013 · 21:55 UTC
That's really funny and amazing I love it reminds me of old days riddles in mickey magazine :)
Andrew Shouldice
26. Aug 2013 · 22:53 UTC
Fantastic. This is a really great game idea. I only wish there was more!
wally2069
27. Aug 2013 · 02:08 UTC
Nicely polished quick style detective game
BNeutral
27. Aug 2013 · 08:58 UTC
Just lovely.
Erhune
27. Aug 2013 · 09:34 UTC
Just 2 words : AWESOME and PANTS!
bombjack
27. Aug 2013 · 09:51 UTC
Very fun, great job!
Sos
27. Aug 2013 · 11:18 UTC
Haha! Amazing! I'm the best detective!
BoaHeck_ArtGent
27. Aug 2013 · 12:51 UTC
This game was brilliant. It could have been longer, but who am I to talk. I only made 8 levels in my entry. I found my self laughing out loud. 5/5 overall.
ellipticaldoor
27. Aug 2013 · 18:19 UTC
Really fun and original :D
psychomonster
27. Aug 2013 · 20:07 UTC
Best game I've played so far...
BlennosoftGames
28. Aug 2013 · 00:44 UTC
Wow! I liked how the mysteries were generally complex enough to take some serious thought, yet straight-forward enough that you had a fair shot at getting them on your first try.

I didn't figure out the reasoning in the sumo wrestler one though, just randomly picked the right guy. The rest were all very satisfying to solve though.
Nezzhil
28. Aug 2013 · 08:18 UTC
Very funny. With five suspects it'll be perfect. :)
Oxydam
28. Aug 2013 · 11:37 UTC
One of my favorite entries so far. Very original use of the theme and great realisation.
I want more case.
aquilicoco
28. Aug 2013 · 14:25 UTC
Awesome ;)
pereubu
28. Aug 2013 · 16:25 UTC
hehehe, very mcpixely :3
chambers
29. Aug 2013 · 00:53 UTC
Great idea, I had a great time playing it, this is the best game I've seen so far. Please make more levels, this game deserves to have TONS of them :D
matthias_zarzecki
29. Aug 2013 · 11:08 UTC
Ha, this is great! love the pixel-style and the hover-texts. The story is great too.

And the title just makes it brilliant :D
canvapps
30. Aug 2013 · 12:43 UTC
graphical adventure! I was missing some of them!
Great work!
Antidote
30. Aug 2013 · 18:03 UTC
I enjoyed playing this so much. Nice humor and interesting gameplay. I think it has potential to develop further, looking forward to play it post-jam :)
zkenshin
31. Aug 2013 · 01:52 UTC
Would make a fun mobile game. Well done. :)
23
31. Aug 2013 · 03:49 UTC
That was fun! Very polished.

I played this in a pub in Tokyo with some friends, and one thing that was immediately obvious to me but not to some older people / long time expats was the guy behind the forest murder. While I had an easy time tying "going to Starbucks, impatient" to "vintage dagger" and then laughing about the Instagram reference, that sort of stereotype just wasn't on the radar at all for some people.
paulmcgg
31. Aug 2013 · 13:06 UTC
Really funny, good job. Great art too.
blackotus
31. Aug 2013 · 20:20 UTC
Awesome game!
Very funny and polished!

I specially liked the second case, haha
Nice job!
GeorgeBroussard
01. Sep 2013 · 03:12 UTC
This was funny, and fun to play. I got them all right on the first pass. I must be wearing awesomepants!
Colapsydo
01. Sep 2013 · 07:35 UTC
Well realized. I like how easy but not obvious the cases are.
The case of forest fiend is hilarious.
Zerkruemler
01. Sep 2013 · 09:49 UTC
Very funny adventure
TijmenTio
01. Sep 2013 · 11:50 UTC
Haha this was awesome and it just worked perfectly! 10 seconds are just enough to solve the mystery!
Martin_Monosys
01. Sep 2013 · 13:50 UTC
Great game, really a lot of fun.
But somebody please tell me about those sumo wrestlers, I didn't get that one... :(
SneManden
01. Sep 2013 · 15:32 UTC
Really great and fun! Quite humurous and really liked the artwork. Only thing I found a tad odd, was that a few elements didn't fit the art style ("Pick the Culpit" font, an arrow, etc.). However, a fantastic entry.
Volute
01. Sep 2013 · 22:12 UTC
Great idea, great game !
DreamTeam
01. Sep 2013 · 22:21 UTC
Refreshing take on the theme... great job! Nice pixel art and the song worked well with the game. Some of the puzzles were a bit easy but for 10 seconds, what else could I expect? Some of the scenarios were pretty funny, too.
megashroom
02. Sep 2013 · 01:12 UTC
Perfectly executed.
The graphics were amazing, the gameplay was enjoyable, and the dialogue was hilarious.
One qualm, the culprit of the first murder didn't align to any clues, but the rest did.
Zccc
02. Sep 2013 · 15:45 UTC
Amazing, very well done :D
withoutpillow
02. Sep 2013 · 17:14 UTC
everything is awesome. except maybe that i can't figure out what the logic behind the sumo wrestler case was.
GarethIW
02. Sep 2013 · 17:54 UTC
Those are some awesome pants!
ashdnazg
06. Sep 2013 · 13:46 UTC
Conan Doyle is rolling in his grave...

Anyway, I enjoyed this game, and the cases were good.
However, I kinda can't stand auto-tracker anymore.
SecondDimension
06. Sep 2013 · 19:54 UTC
so so good, great work. Every scenario was funny, required a bit of quick thought and looked lovely
moomoo112
06. Sep 2013 · 20:24 UTC
Great game, I love the graphics too.
LTyrosine
07. Sep 2013 · 15:05 UTC
"Sure! Blame the foreign" hHAHAHAHA amazing game
ratking
08. Sep 2013 · 10:40 UTC
I love the settings and the characters. Hilarious!
Rick Hoppmann
08. Sep 2013 · 17:15 UTC
Autotracker music :D
Pixelart was ok, the puzzles were mostly fair.
Cosr
09. Sep 2013 · 00:22 UTC
Good game, good pixels, good sense of humour throughout. Decent polish and feels nicely complete.
Pierrec
09. Sep 2013 · 12:29 UTC
The game is good and funny! I would have loved to play more difficult levels! Will you make some more ?
The music was a bit boring in the end.
tigerj
17. Sep 2013 · 00:28 UTC
Really awesome, really pants. nice job!