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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER

@detfantasia.bsky.social

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⦿ Murder mystery game in which Excalibur is the murder weapon! ⦿ Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2622180 ⦿ More links: https://excalimurder.carrd.co/ ⦿ Dev: @teochhim.bsky.social

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · Apr 16

This is a non-linear murder mystery game in which Excalibur is the murder weapon.
Wishlist here if you're interested!
store.steampowered.com/app/2622180/...

Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER on Steam

EXCALIMURDER is an open world murder mystery game inspired by the sword in the stone legend. Explore an orphanage, meet weird people and solve logic puzzles, all in a colorful pixel art world. Bonus: ...

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you :)
It's all 2D!

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · 15d

Wasn't sure how to make a wind effect so I stole it from another indie game...

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · 16d

This room won't be in the demo, sorry!

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · 17d

Here are three new NPCs! The last one is naked

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · 18d

I made sure to put plenty of, er, "shortcuts" in the game

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · 19d

The story actually doesn't borrow much from the Arthurian legend (even though Excalibur is the murder weapon)
There's Lancelot and Galahad though!
#pixelart

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · 20d

Light peeking through the leaves 🍂

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · 21d

I want the "clues menu" to feel like your own personal notebook you can skim through whenever
Feels more engaging!

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · 22d

New wood type area 🍂
Spooky woods for a nice murder story!

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · 23d

This is still a detective game with Excalibur as the murder weapon o/
(nothing's changed)

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · 24d

Been a while but I'm working on a demo!
I'll try to post more often ✌️

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · Apr 22

I've been looking for the right genre for a long time and I got really inspired when I found his Dungeon Synth works.

The charm and personality made me reach out to a composer for the first time ever and I got really lucky ✌️

Link to his work here o/
www.youtube.com/@Simeon_Neese

Simeon Neese

I am a singer/songwriter who has recently fallen very deeply in love with Dungeon Synth, and I am currently enjoying exploring the genre and releasing Dungeon Synth albums as Argonaught.

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · Apr 22

The game now has a COMPOSER 🎵👏

Argonaught (Simeon Neese) has been working on the soundtrack for two months now!

Here's a preview of the main theme, more about him in the replies!

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · Apr 19

All updated walk cycles 🏃💨
#pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · Apr 18

Thank you :) !!

Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · Apr 18

Various shapes of fireworks 🎆
#pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · Apr 16

Thanks!
Yeah there's a lot of different techniques involved, though some of them are really inefficient!
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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · Apr 16

Ocean level breakdown 🌊
Never posted this on Bluesky so here it is o/
#pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · Apr 16

Thank you! It's all 2D magic ahah
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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · Apr 16

Ocean level breakdown 🌊
Never posted this on Bluesky so here it is o/
#pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · Apr 16

This is a non-linear murder mystery game in which Excalibur is the murder weapon.
Wishlist here if you're interested!
store.steampowered.com/app/2622180/...

Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER on Steam

store.steampowered.com

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · Apr 16

Ocean level breakdown 🌊
Never posted this on Bluesky so here it is o/
#pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · Apr 15

New swimming cycles 🤿
(with the updated sprite!)
#pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · Apr 14

It's a shader yes, the game and all its assets originally look like the image on the left!

The shader uses the blue value of a pixel as an x-coordinate and the red/green values as a y-coordinate to pinpoint which color on the current palette must be returned 👌

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · Apr 14

Smoother idle animations 🧈
#pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · Apr 13

Easy palette swapping 🎨
Had to replace ALL assets with indexed colors for this!
#pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

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Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social · Jan 21

Updated Hank animations 🃏
#pixelart #ドット絵 #indiedev

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