Detective Horse

Detective Horse is the result of my biting off more than i could chew for Mini Jam 115: Noir: an attempt to draw, animate, and write a point-and-click graphical adventure game in less than 72 hours.

I liked much more the noir style of the jam’s theme than its required limitation, Everything is Temporary, and you won’t see much “temporary things”, but i could not let the opportunity of developing a simple black-and-white, film noir adventure game pass. Of course, i one can argue that, since this is a game, once the browser is closed, everything will be lost, thus “temporary”. There, limitation satisfied!

Unfortunately, 72 hours are not enough for such an ambitious project, and i ended up with a very, very short game that does not even have a proper story. Also, i am afraid that my sense of humor is very bad, so forgive me for the crude jokes.

As always, thank you a lot for playing!

Controls

The whole game is played with the primary mouse button, the left one by default. It should work with a touchscreen too, but i have not tested it.

Click anywhere on the screen to advance the dialog. It will show a notice when the conversation is over, and then you can point-and-click at objects. The pointer will change whenever the mouse is hovering anything that can be clicked. Sometimes it can be a small object.

Assets Fonts

• Amatic SC by Vernon Adams (github.com/vernnobile)
  Licensed under SIL Open Font License
  http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Music

• Bass Walker by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Fast Talking by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sounds

• Breaking a glass by Vincent Kurt Anderes (freesound.org/people/VincentKurtAnderes)
  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• Camera Click NIKON by Snapper4298 (freesound.org/people/Snapper4298)
  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Switch ON - Livingroom by MastersDisaster (freesound.org/people/MastersDisaster)
  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/