Murder on 39th Street by vadinci
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Murder on 39th Street is a murder mystery that utilizes your devices battery. You, Heather, have been murdered at the start of spring. You have until the end of Winter to collect clues and find out who murdered you. Your devices battery level determines the in game time. Come back when your device is lower on power to progress in the story, or charge your device to go back in time!


| HTML5 (web) | http://www.vadinci.net/39street |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/murder-on-39th-street |
Ratings
| Overall | 12th | 4.371⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 298th | 3.333⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1th | 4.789⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 8th | 4.5⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 29th | 4.59⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 17th | 4.314⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 221th | 2.967⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 27th | 4.237⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 36🗳️ | 35🗨️ |
There is no android build yet, but the game should run in your mobile browser!
Thank you for the game. For me this was the most creative idea I have seen in a Ludum Dare.
I'm really impressed you guys did this in 72 hours. I've seen so many excellent uses of the theme this time around, and your team is no exception, well done. Full points for both theme and innovation.
Full points for mood, full points for humor (for the so bad they're amazing jokes from Patrick, and for Harry). Graphics look very nice, though the cars sometimes drive backward, which is both very minor (I still gave 5 points) and pretty funny ;) Music is nice and suitable to the tone of the game.
I correctly pegged the killer the first time! Then went through and looked at all the other options, which was neat. The characters were great.
This is one of the best entries I've seen so far, really excellent work, guys!
To Vadinci's team, I highly recommend putting an explanation of the debug mode in your game description on this page so people are less likely to just see that error and move on. It took me a moment to realize it was an option. Vadinci should be able to edit this page to add it to the description.
Regarding the cars moving backwards, the cars move backwards when your device is charging, because time is going backwards ;) Similarly, snowflakes will 'fall upwards' or downwards, and the streetlights will be turned on or off depending on wether you are charging your device. In the debug build, this can be toggled with [T]
Glitches:
Clicking somewhere between Fiora - Detective and crime scene pops out both windows.
Good luck!
P.S. Probably **SPOILER ALERT**: I noticed cars move backwards :wink:
A well-achieved mood through music, the changing scenery and writing combined with a rather original way of presenting the theme and idea, it's certainly a very good entry!
Everything about this game is so cohesive, the graphics, the music and sound effects, everything, I'm so impressed that you all managed to pull off this massive of a project on time! This is easily something that would be worth paying for, really great job y'all.
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Also caught the murderer :)
Very cool game, lovely graphics, good background music. creating a great mood. The story is really great as well. I'm not a fan of the battery mechanic, though only a few entries came up with actual devices power as a mechanic, I don't feel that the mechanic was used very creatively adding nothing more than the passing of time, scaled by your computers specs. (Though I admit it does romanticise the gameplay a bit). Does this make the game any worse? Not at all. This is a very solid entry. Cheers!