Toybox Detective

An entry for ToyBoxJam 3 (2022), hosted by Tom Hall (@ThatTomHall).

There are many dark, grim things happening in ToyBox town. All workers of an old police station trying their best in attempts to protect and to serve.  You are the one of the police detectives, and you job is to find criminals all  around the town. 

You'll need to search in archives for clues, make an identikits with them and after that, interrogate detained suspects. Don't forget to talk to witnesses, they might help.

Controls

• Left/right/up/down arrows - navigate player and menus
• z (PICO8 O) - quit, deny
• x (PICO8 X) - confirm
• Esc - pause the game

Created with Pygame and Python by Paul Pzhavyn

03-23.02.2022 (@_soochiko)

Credits (art and music)

• Sprite Ideas by That Tom Hall, Lafolie, Liquidream
• Art / Animation by Lafolie, Toby Hefflin, That Tom Hall, Smelly Fishsticks, Alice Stenger, thykka.
• Font encoding by Merwok
• Sound effects by Lafolie, Gruber, That Tom Hall. bikibird.
• Incredible Music by Gruber (and one lame one by That Tom Hall

Updates

version 0.2 (post-jam version)

If you stuck, now you can fFollow yellow '?' signs and carefully read text, labelled with 'YOU' .

•  improved dialogues word wrapping, added colored text highlights;
•  added '?' signs
• spellcheck (thanks to Mikhail Panin);
• archive, your comp and interrogation screens rework;
• added General Tips.txt file;
• minor fixes;