Illegal Crime Game by angrygeometry

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made by angrygeometry for LD25 (JAM)
ILLEGAL CRIME GAME.

THIS GAME IS HIGHLY ILLEGAL.

DOWNLOADING AND OPENING THIS APPLICATION MAY LEAD TO ARRIVAL OF COPS AND LATER ARREST.

PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

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Explore the city and commit crimes. Collect money and commit crimes. Pray to your Crime Deity and invade tombs.

Arrow Keys - Move
Enter / Z - Confirm/Interact
Escape / X - Cancel/Menu

RPG Maker is a little fiddly. If you encounter flickering, try pressing alt + Enter.

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Post-compo version contains some bug fixes, and a few more little things.

Thanks to:
coda - https://soundcloud.com/coda
magicdweedoo - https://soundcloud.com/magicdweedoo
Pero - https://soundcloud.com/pero_o

rusalkamask

didn't get to finish properly, i think this game had potential but got too fatigued to do anything interesting with it.

Ratings

Coolness 81% 2
Overall(Jam) 4.06 4
Audio(Jam) 3.83 21
Fun(Jam) 3.79 17
Graphics(Jam) 3.30 147
Humor(Jam) 4.30 2
Innovation(Jam) 3.28 82
Mood(Jam) 3.73 23
Theme(Jam) 4.30 7

Feedback

leafo
18. Dec 2012 · 02:29 UTC
best game in the whole comp
AtkinsSJ
18. Dec 2012 · 15:12 UTC
Bizarre, and I love it!

/me goes off to commit crimes.
gameXcore
18. Dec 2012 · 21:33 UTC
Simply brilliant :D
youdonotexist
18. Dec 2012 · 21:51 UTC
Is it possible to get a Mac version of this?
Schwiggy
18. Dec 2012 · 22:11 UTC
Ohh... ha, I just read your description. Before then I thought the flickering was on purpose. Much easier to play now :P It looks like you put an insane amount of work into this.
mikemacdee
18. Dec 2012 · 22:16 UTC
BEST IN SHOW. great scribbly graphics, fantastic soundtrack. i'm setting time aside to really get immersed in this little world.

there's no wall behind Shifty. might wanna fix that.
Soggyclog
18. Dec 2012 · 22:39 UTC
Awesome! This should be mandatory playing for impressionable kids everywhere.
Saisaith
18. Dec 2012 · 23:11 UTC
wow this was really fun! love it!
jackspinoza
18. Dec 2012 · 23:25 UTC
pretty nice, reminiscent of Space Funeral, which is a good thing. I liked all the criming. Criming aint easy but it sure is fun.
NiceAlexanderAS
19. Dec 2012 · 00:21 UTC
WOW! COOL GAME HERE! NICE STORY, I LIKE TO COMMIT CRIMES IN THIS GAME >:) XD
Patrick64
19. Dec 2012 · 00:28 UTC
Very funny, the dialogue is great.
Cake&Code
19. Dec 2012 · 00:28 UTC
Hahaha, this is by far the most hilarious game I've played so far. Brilliant humour and good writing. Love the glitch character... ??????
netgrind
19. Dec 2012 · 02:37 UTC
This game is the best thing ever. Fucking hilarious text.
mcc
19. Dec 2012 · 02:37 UTC
this was very funny! loved the gfx and music too. i'm gonna come back to it once i can manage to find more things to steal.
Toadpud
19. Dec 2012 · 03:13 UTC
My favorite so far
LaughingLeader
19. Dec 2012 · 04:37 UTC
Hahaha. "I love sewer." The game had me right there. So much awesome, funny dialogue throughout the whole game. Everything was great. Amazing job!
moomoo112
19. Dec 2012 · 05:26 UTC
there's a surprising amount to this game for such little time
Mythalore
19. Dec 2012 · 12:11 UTC
Good, RPG! Well done!
wzl
19. Dec 2012 · 14:49 UTC
This is so enjoyable. Good atmosphere going. I couldn't make up my mind if the graphics are horrible or genious though :D I didn't manage to commit all of the crimes though ;/

Minireview: http://ldmr.wzl.vg/#angrygeometry
taqutor
19. Dec 2012 · 16:13 UTC
This game is awesome. Great job!
farmergnome
20. Dec 2012 · 05:09 UTC
One of my favorites for sure, good job.
recursive frog
20. Dec 2012 · 08:03 UTC
Man, it's a shame to see what Ness grew up to become.

I don't know what I just played, but I know it was really brilliant. :)
ddionisio
20. Dec 2012 · 08:39 UTC
I feel like there's a strong message here about society, and the silliness of it is quite true. The art works out well, along with the music. Also, the dialog is pretty amusing. Great work, there is definite potential in this game!
Aslai
20. Dec 2012 · 18:53 UTC
I was laughing the whole game long. Good job.
fishbrain
21. Dec 2012 · 07:32 UTC
Very nice! Great graphics-style and awesome dialogue. Had fun.
Nick Cash
21. Dec 2012 · 08:57 UTC
This game was surprisingly endearing and addictive. Must be all that crime! Well done :)
feili
21. Dec 2012 · 09:40 UTC
nice game!
timtipgames
21. Dec 2012 · 10:25 UTC
Fun to play and quite some content. I thinkg the music was really great! Well done. Oh, sending this from public prison-wlan of course.
StoneMonkeyStudios
21. Dec 2012 · 10:28 UTC
Realizing that I had the "Den of Crime" theme stuck in my head, I went back to re-check my score for the audio of this game, only to find that I DIDN'T RATE THIS GAME THE FIRST TIME!

Good thing I checked.

Ahem... Anyway. Sporting janky-yet-charmingly crude graphics, a catchy soundtrack, tons of lines of silly and humorous dialogue, Illegal Crime Game remains one of the more memorably entertaining LD entries. The funky-brass music, the seemingly 90's-esque atmosphere, and odd characters are reminiscent of Earthbound, a comparison that itself is worthy of note.

Though I suspect it's unintended, I found it funny that you could clip into the jail with the rest of the criminals from right above the trash can in the Cop station. I guess crime is as crime does, haha.
Hatscat
21. Dec 2012 · 11:44 UTC
WOW! What's a huge game! Nice and hilarious, well done!
Pierrec
21. Dec 2012 · 13:16 UTC
I'm having a lot of fun since at least half an hour. But Nos I'm stuck : I don't find any crime to commit except stealing the TV, but I can't because when I give him the rocks, the owner go through a wall and the game gets stuck :/
goerp
21. Dec 2012 · 16:35 UTC
Great great great! A lot of locations, puzzles, nice and varied music. Plays well, you just run around and try things and explore.
And the dialog is very very funny, and theres a lot of it.
Best so far for me.
🎤 angrygeometry
22. Dec 2012 · 00:05 UTC
thank you so much guys!! i am completely overwhelmed by the positive feedback!!

@youdonotexist sadly rpg maker is rigid and as far as i'm aware, not compliant with mac or possible to port.. but i might make a mac version in the future.

@ Pierrec there are sadly a few bugs in the pre-compo version.. the post-compo version fixes most but i think there are still one or two lingering around :(

thank you for playing and the comments and the review and everything else! i really really appreciate it.

i put a link to the soundtrack in the main body so if you want to check it out, do so!! its very good!
naughtyloose
22. Dec 2012 · 02:06 UTC
that was fun, but a bit hard.
Tobias Wehrum
29. Dec 2012 · 00:04 UTC
(WARNING: The following comment is written with CRIMINAL INTENT. Please report it to the next police station.)

Wow, I love it! The graphics, the humor, the music, everything blends together so well. At first I was doubtful that I could steal anything at all (the skull family house barricaded, "not the right tools" for the car), but then I actually stole something! And some more! Commiting crimes is so addicting!

The best part of the game is obviously the humor. You did a really good job on exaggerating the whole crime thing without being annoying.

And whew, the world is big. I kept expecting it to end, but no sir, there is another screen after that one. Obviously a lot of areas that seemingly did nothing (or maybe I actually didn't figure them out?), but still - so much content.

You did a very good job there! Thanks for this cool game!

And now excuse me please, I need to commit more crimes.
SuperDisk
31. Dec 2012 · 20:13 UTC
One of the better games. The writing was great, and the concept of a town obsessed with crime was really funny. RPGMaker was a nice choice as well.
JaJ
07. Jan 2013 · 20:09 UTC
This is great, I ended committing only 4 crimes though, but I did manage to steal the car.