Locked Away

Category	Rank	Score
Mood	9	4.09
Coolness	3	52
Fun	111	3.39
Overall	180	3.36
Innovation	278	3.07
Humor	318	2.22
Graphics	573	2.35
Theme	748	1.36

nedortgames 2012-08-27 02:27

Loved the fact you designed the layout of the screen were as all the TBGs I played so far have just used regular buring plain white screen with normal text!

cipher 2012-08-27 02:32

Mood was great, I felt like a detective from the future where crimes are fought using a terminal really great idea, you should expand upon it, but I fail to see what it has to do with evolution.

accidentalrebel 2012-08-29 13:00

First time I played a game like this and it seems very interesting. The text-based gameplay makes you concentrate on the case at hand and nothing else. I have to agree with Cipher though, where is the relation with evolution?

adamharte 2012-08-30 10:39

Very nice! Love the look of the terminal. A tab for auto-complete would have been super nice, but it was really quite fun anyway.

switchbreak 2012-08-30 10:50

Finished! I love this game, it is great. A detective adventure game that kinda feels like actually solving a case!

shmarah 2012-09-02 05:46

That was so much fun!

timtipgames 2012-09-02 06:46

This was actually one of the rare cases of a text-game that I liked. And that despite me not liking detective games. This really caught me and I was actually disappointed when it ended. Can't see the theme in it either, but nevertheless this was really fun. Good job!

localcoder 2012-09-02 08:19

Thanks for all the feedback so far.

I watched two of my friends play Locked Away. Both of them finished the game, but missed one little detail. Because they both missed it, I suspect that I made it far too subtle and that other people are missing it too.

If you've just finished the game, but still feel curious, this is the 'clue' I gave them: http://pastebin.com/x782KyM7

I tried to make it a bit more obvious in the post-compo version.

khananaphone 2012-09-02 08:52

This was actually really fun. It got a bit cumbersome typing in some of the longer names, but it was still the most engrossing game of the competition I've played so far.

darkshadow 2012-09-06 12:45

Amazingly fun puzzle game. They way you are searching the logs and the transaction details you do feel like a detective in an old vision of what the future would be like. What I really like is how the 3 cases which at first appear separate are actually all linked.

Please write some more cases!

frogmaster 2012-09-06 18:52

Wow! I didn't expect such deep game! The story and puzzles are really exceptional. Hmm, maybe only I hardly see any signs of the evolution here...

andygo 2012-09-10 11:47

Text based game ^-^ !
I liked it...