Private Detective is a procedurally generated murder mystery game, where you must solve randomly generated crimes by finding leads, questioning suspects, and gathering evidence from the crime scene to compare with samples found in the homes of the suspects. It plays a lot like an adventure game, but with a lot more deduction and a lot less inventory object puzzles.
The game has no end goal, except for the completion of as many cases as you can. I’m developing it to be something akin to Minesweeper or Solitaire. A fun little distraction that you play for a short while. As such there's no story (although I'm thinking about adding something extra after a hundred cases).
I know the title is really boring, but it's the best I could come up with. And unless I think of something better, it's probably going to stay like that.
Screenshots:
Current Progress:
The game is roughly 85% complete. I would be more specific, but I'm kind of winging it, so I'm not sure how much more I'm going to add.
What I can say though is that it’s fully playable, but it’s lacking a lot of cosmetic fluff (art, writing, and programming wise) and it no doubt has plenty of bugs.
Release Date:
The deadline I’ve set myself is mid-july (which would make the full development cycle for this game around four months). And if I continue at the pace I’m going, and nothing major happens that distracts me from working on the game, I think it’s quite likely I will meet that deadline.
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