Detective Trowel & The Rotten Posy

Engine: Unity

Programming Tools: MS Visual Studio

Language: C#

Role: Programmer

Team Size: 5

Date: 2023 (University Third Year)

Genre: Point & Click (Narrative game)

Blog: Narrative Game blog

Controls: Mouse

Pitch

Detective Trowel & The Rotten Posy is a point & clicker where the goal is to investigate the death of Bloomsted Council-head Col Tulip.

Description

Detective Trowel & The Rotten Posy takes place in the detective's office (Trowel), and the playing area is his desk, where he builds dioramas based on the visited scenery and replays the case to figure out what happened with Col Tulip. To progress in this game, the player has to talk with the NPCs to get more information about the case and search for evidence around the dioramas to earn evidence cards. The evidence cards are another way to interact with other NPCs and gain further information about the case. However, if the player shows the wrong card, the detective gets stressed and smokes a cigarette to calm down. When the cigarette pack is empty, the game starts over.

Narrative Design - Jimmy Rammelkamp

2D Assets - Chanae Henry

UI Programmer - Joshua Mootoo

Game Design/Gameplay Programmer/3D Assets - Konstantin Teale