🔎 Constable Comedy: The Crime Solving Comedian
The prompt for the 2024 Global Game Jam was 'make me laugh'. Our team landed on the idea where players need to identify a criminal at a standup comedy show. This is done by remembering details from the crime's dossier and selecting jokes that might help to make the criminal standout. Whether or not an audience member laughs, boos or is indifferent to the joke is based on their interests.
Feel free to play it in-browser on itch.io!
Platform - PC
Genre - Detective
Game engine
Godot 4
Other tools
Affinity Photo
🖥️ Screenshots
Below are some screenshots of the gameplay and menus. For the UI, I focused on a feeling of a old school crime dossier (even if the UI isn't explicitly that). One of my favourite aspects if the redaction of information when players hover over "got it" (as seen in the above gif), doing it's best to suggest this info would no longer be available to them when continuing, thus needing to memorised.
🛠️ Development
While brainstorming ideas, I created a quick sketch which helped us get on the same page. From there I further refined the sketch and worked to complete assets. The original title was "Criminally Funny", as seen in an iteration of the main menu, but we enjoyed the, perhaps unnecessarily longer, newer title of "Constable Comedy: The Crime Solving Comedian".
