Play Detective Game
Murder at Motel Avenue's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #10 | 4.507 | 4.507 |
| Game Design | #21 | 4.041 | 4.041 |
| Overall | #35 | 3.790 | 3.790 |
| Fun | #86 | 3.589 | 3.589 |
| Audio | #102 | 3.521 | 3.521 |
| Innovation | #123 | 3.370 | 3.370 |
| Theme | #134 | 3.712 | 3.712 |
Ranked from 73 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
We focused all of our efforts on making the gameplay and progression revolve behind each door in the game.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
- All the code was made during the time of the Game Jam.
- All art assets are unique and were created during the Game Jam.
- Sounds and music was sourced from "FreeSounds.org"
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So good game! It's very interesting when you need to find the murderer. I haven't seen any similar games at all. And I very liked graphics!!!very atmospheric =)
Wow!! Such an amazing looking game, really loved the character designs. Really gave that old school point and click feel but with modern pixel art graphics. This could be a demo for a much bigger fuller game, really really well done!
Thank you for your kind words Avecta! We're glad you enjoyed the game :) We also appreciate your compliments, it really means a lot to us. We hope to further develop the game or get more into the game development path ^^ Thanks for taking the time to check out our game!
Really well made! Nice use of theme, but I couldn't solve it 😅 Not sure what I'm missing. I thought combed over each room with the mouse to find things to interact with, but I'm still missing 2 motives for a suspect and am assuming one of those is the correct answer.
The only feedback I really have is nitpicks, because it's so well done.
Again, all nitpicks (or things I missed 😂). Great job! Hope to see more in the future!
Hi Dw3nt, thanks so much for giving the game a go. The feedback is extremely valuable, we appreciate you listing everything as it helps us to understand the player better and ensure that in our next project we can eliminate these issues :D. Thanks for taking the time to check out and play our game.
Nice little detective game! Only thing I would have liked to see is a way to speed up the ending dialogue to try the game again. Artstyle is very well put together!
Thank you, ghostentity12! We really appreciate your honest feedback, and we'll take your suggestions into consideration to improve our next game :) Thank you for taking the time to play our game ^^
A gorgeous game! I am really impressed with the amount of polish on this game, it's a fully complete game made in a week which is impressive. The art style is beautiful and all the little touches are great, you even made your own cursor. A fun little mystery with enough clues to figure it out without giving it to you. All told a really great entry, well done to the team!
Thank you very much for your kind words, Pigeon! We really appreciate it :) I'm glad to hear that you liked the graphics in the game, especially that you pointed out the custom cursor ^^ Thanks for taking the time to play our game!
Awesome game! And amazing that you managed to pull this off in this limited time! I really like the visuals and the story and... everything :D I think some talking sounds or something even if it was just gibberish would be nice I think (could also be too much, I don't really know). Nonetheless I really enjoyed playing it and looked for all the evidence and tried to find the different endings. I found the victory ending but also some other ones so far :D Good job!
Hey Paddy, thanks for the kind words, it was quite a balance of work to get it done in a timely fashion but we made it to the finish line :D. We actually did test out character gibberish but didn't think it sounded good enough to make the final product, hopefully in future titles we can make it work because we agree it adds a lot of flair to the character interactions. Congrats that you got the true ending. Thanks for taking the time out of your day to play our game :D
I like the presentation. The left and right side of the game were slightly cut off which made it hard to play (could not press the intercom for instance and barely see the night stand).
Characters look nice and have unique personalities.
Overall nicely made!
Hi Frank, sorry to hear you experienced the bug that shortens the screen, the usual fix we recommend people is to play the game in full screen but that doesn't fix it for all. Thanks for the kind words and thanks for taking the time to play our game :D
I really struggled with this game, I don't know if I was not understanding the clues or how to put them together but I really struggled to figure out how everything connected and solve the mystery. I managed to get 4 endings, but I wish there was a way to tell which items were intractable or have some highlighted words in the text. I always felt like I was missing something, like there was some hint or clue, or hidden dialogue to add to the final check. Coupled with the slow walk speed, it didn't feel fun and sometimes felt frustrating to recheck all the rooms and dialogue to see if I could find anything new. I didn't find anything so I went through the final "Can you solve the case" again and again hoping to have the right combo. I think overall I felt confused on what to do and how to solve the mystery.
This game is well made, The art is really cute, and I love the palette, I didn't experience any bugs, and the "Behind the door" theme was captured well. Your team did an incredible job making a functional game.
Hi 6lbsofshrimp, thanks for the feedback on the game, we're sorry to hear that you struggled with the game and didn't find it enjoyable. The feedback is very valuable and important to us :D as it'll allow us to improve for our next game. We're happy you liked the art and how we captured the theme. Thanks for taking the time to check out our game and leave some valuable feedback.
Hi HoangSon, thank you for your kind words! We're so happy to hear that you enjoyed the graphics and audio, and that the cat sound caught your attention :D (adding that meow sound was probably one of the best decisions we made lol) We've added your game to our list of games to play, and we can't wait to check it out! Thanks for taking the time to play our game ^^
very cute!! Amazing game!!
Thank you Luquinha_R! We really appreciate it :)
Super cute and polished game. Enjoyed talking to the characters. Great work!
Thanks a lot, Echo :) We're glad you enjoyed talking to the characters! It might be a lot of reading to do, but I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it ^^
the game is great. I played it for a while trying various options to see the various endings. is all well done, I also tried in the room of the crime to click various objects while I read the diary and nothing happened (I wanted to find bugs but I did not find them, great :3). again congratulations guys! I hope it can officially come out as a game
Hi 27wounds, thanks for the kind words I'm glad you enjoyed it and tried many different endings. We put a lot of effort into play testing to make sure it was as polished as possible, our bug report page was pretty big aha, but thanks to giving ourselves a lot of time to test we were able to squash a lot of them (not all of them ;D) I actually really appreciate players that try to find bugs, so thank you so much :D. We don't have any plans at the moment to continue development on this game post jam. We really appreciate you taking the time out of your day to play our game :D
keep it up! <3
I really liked the art. I would appreciate it if you could rate my game.
Hi Aaarass, Thanks for taking the time to play our game. I've added your game to my personal list of games to play. It looks super cool, can't wait to check it out :D
the game is very pretty and immersive. i kinda wish there was an easy way to check on all clues I've found. Also, I didn't pick up instantly what some of the clues were. But apart from my skill issues, I enjoyed the game.
Thanks BRKoda, thanks for the kind words on the art. We also wish we could have added a notes system to the game but we had to cut it from the final product. Thanks for taking the time to play our game :D
Great game! I love detective stories, and the pixel art is amazing! ^^
Thank you plasol! I'm glad you enjoyed the game. We really appreciate it :)
Thanks for submitting your game to the stream! If you wanted to look at the vod again in the future here it is timestamped to your game
Thanks for taking the time to play. It always helps watching others play, as it allows us to see how players take their own path and see reactions to design choices we make. It helps us improve as designers. So big thanks to streaming the game we appreciate it.
The vibe of the game is so good! Also a fun an engaging story! Incredible job!
Hi Joram, we're happy to hear you found the game engaging and fun :D It's also great to hear that vibe of the game matched the setting. Thanks so much for taking the time to play our game :D
i love how the pixel art felt alive in this one. the way the trees and characters move was very appealing. you did a great job with the text system, and the controls were simple enough to where you can get right into the story immediately. nice job!
Hi AliasNess, thank you so much, the artist did an amazing job with the art. We're very happy to hear that both the text system and controls we're easy to understand and navigate for the player :D Thank you so much for playing, we really appreciate it.
What a Twist! I thought that highlighting 2 or more person is a bug, but apparently it was a proper feature! I know whothe murderer is, obvious from the clue found but because of the constant dead end i though it was mistaken
I'm glad you enjoyed the twist, we wanted to design it in a way that makes the player go "it's obvious, ohhhhh there's still more" and encourage them to come back for a second round. Thanks for taking the time to play the game :D
Cool immersive game with amazing art style. really like to play it ! grate job !
Thanks a lot, Slisov! We're glad you liked it ^^