absolutely gorgeous graphic !, love the hand drawn style

I don't really understand the mechanics of the game; I tried playing as a judge but just got a note saying I should wait until more players play as policeman. I then tried playing as a policeman, and got treated to a very long intro sequence. Then a guy came up and started explaining things I had to note down. But the typewriter didn't register over half my keypresses, and adjusting it precisely was impossible. So I just wound up with a bunch of random characters in random order on my paper and eventually got tired of waiting for something else to happen.

I would love to come back to this game, but I need the typewriter to register my inputs properly, and I'd like the rules explanation not to take longer than some games take to complete. Just throw a line or two at the start: "you have 13 lines. Take notes from the witness. Later these notes will be used to...something". If you have time to do those two quick changes for a post-LD version hit me up and I'll try to give a proper review.

@Ghen Thanks, I try something new, and I like it too.

@mras0000 Thanks for long feedback!

It's a little experimental maybe. The goal was to reproduce the role of a police officer who takes statements, who is in front of a person who does not stop talking and who must try to write down precisely what is said...

For the typewriter, I tried to reproduce an old machine operation (I have an old one, a little capricious, an I love the accidents it causes). So you have to type the letters one by one, for example and the number of letters is limited (letters + a few punctuation marks, I didn't have time to write them on the buttons). But maybe there are bugs in addition...
And I have to admit, I like long introductions, sorry...

Love the graphics. I had a really difficult time understanding what I was doing though. I like the idea of the type writer (which was beautiful) but controls I just didn't understand. I would have played through again but it took too long to get to where you do anything and there are a lot of games to be played :)

I think with a bit of polish and control description it would have been a decent little play through though. Maybe a way to skip through story for those that have played once already? I liked some of the humor too

I love the artstyle. You did a really good job setting the scene and atmosphere too. I really felt like I was a police officer who had to take notes. Good job! :D

Graphics are really good. The ambiance seems like old Thomson T80 that i really like. Unfortunatly control (not really understand all) miss a little tutorial. By the way keep it up you got something really nice.

> I'm just going to take a moment and point out how much I love the art for this game! :heart:

I got a bit confused. And the cinematics are a bit too long. Might need some music to add energy to the game.
But the concept is really cool. And the art style is really amazing.

Nicely done.

The great paper drought is here! Honestly one of my favourite entries so far. Wonderfully written, beautifully drawn - loved that the typewriter keys aligned with the keyboard inputs, loved that the typewriter malfunctions sometimes and I loved the dual paths you could play (didn't have the same effect on me because I played it alone but the idea was good). I really would have loved some jazzy background music to give it that bit extra, with regards to atmosphere. I would have also liked to have been able to click to skip through dialogue once I had read it (not during the interview stage though because that seemed to be timed well). Overall, really good job!

I couldn't resist. I have played both sides.
The writing with the typewriter felt like a real (old) one. It's a nice feature that you can get the written report to see what you wrote. The dialogue is quite funny. I like your game :)

I LOVE the art for the game, the only complaint is for the text to go by faster

Great Graphics and good typewriter simulation. The depositions are a bit long and without context is hard to tell what to write and what to skip.

Looks really interesting, unfortunately I was unable to figure out how the controls worked. The up, down, enter and minus (?) keys did not seem to make anything happen when I pressed them, and I don't know if that's a bug or I didn't understand the controls.
In any case, I can see there's some really cool ideas here, hope you keep working on it!

Nice game, graphics are really good!

I agree with most of the feedback. If the controls were a bit clearer and the dialogue was skippable, it could make for a compelling party game. I'd just like to say that I'll rate it higher for what it could have been rather than what it is :)

Would be nice to be able to skip dialogue, but I did like the reason you can't use the back of the sheet :)

Hey cool idea! The functionality and working with the typewriter was executed great! I found the text moving quite slowly when I'm introduced to the game even I finished reading haha. Fresh art style and the idea of having only small piece of paper and to actually work with the typewriter was really cool. :) Nicely done.

Cool graphics, but after dialogue I didn't know what to do !

This is awsome the hand drawn style, it's first time I see something like this here, great job!

Great to see a hand drawn game in the jam! It was a very slow process taking the notes as a policeman, which is a shame as I'd have loved to have skipped through parts of the dialogue, but I did enjoy the idea of seeing it from 2 different sides, and as a concept it's very clever. Well done!

I really like this concept a lot, though I think it may require more guiding so players don't get confused. I picked to play the judge first and was incredibly confused by the note brought to me. I managed to click the right person on accident.

It clicked when I chose to play the police officer, and I was excited to play that perspective. However, the typewriter seemed to break on me and I couldn't move the typewriter down to the next line. I still really like this concept, but unfortunately I couldn't get far in the jam version.

I came here to evaluate your game, but after launching it I was greeted with unskippable dialogue. A lot of it. Then, just to try the mechanics, I realised that I had already used 3 or 4 lines of paper. This discouraged me from playing any more. So I didn't leave you a rating, because I haven't basically experienced the game. I just thought you would find this feedback useful, hopefully. It's a shame, because I found your premise quite intriguing, otherwise.

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Absolutely brilliant!
I never thought a typewriter could make me laugh so much. I loved the attention to detail added to how the machine records your input, and how stupid reading a deposition as a judge felt :smile:
Great, coherent artstyle and mood and well polished. Congrats!

Nice game and I loved the concept! The artwork looks good and the gameplay was fun, although I think you should shorten the intro sequences. Overall, great job! :thumbsup:

The layout seems to be a bit messed up, or is this intended?

I was really confused on what to do, until i finally realized that there is a lot of setup dialogue. I love the style and the typewriter sounds are extremely satisfying.

Gosh, I am utterly sorry for the repport I sent to the judge :sweat_smile:

But I have to say that in the begining the game annoyed me A LOT: unskippable and VERY long text, no indication in regars of controls or how to operate the machine, when you finally learn how to write, you don't even see the text you're writing. It's like if everything was made on purpose to make this not fun at all... (I think these things desserve your game a lot as some people may not have the perserverance I had to stay until the end).

but in the end when I saw what was going to happen to my repport I laughed out loud and it was great. It's a really great surprise. And I forgave you all that was before.

So overall it was a very refreshing experiece. good job! :smile: