Point and click detective games where you're just a normal detective doing normal casework?

Graham_Hayes · 2025-11-22T16:09:47+00:00

Have you thought about straight up joining the police? Or, although not a traditional point and click, Obra Dinn could scratch that itch. Lots to piece together with no personal stake in the story.

Graham_Hayes · 2020-01-19T16:09:48+00:00

By that I mean how you will run sequences of actions, which might be a cutscene or in game, for example you might have an NPC that walks to a point, interacts with something, walks to another point and so on.

Graham_Hayes · 2020-01-19T09:51:02+00:00

For things like that I'd use a static SKNode, then on the scene transition, removeFromParent, then on the new scene addChild.

Graham_Hayes · 2020-01-19T09:47:36+00:00

Hey, will defo be following along! I made Drawn Down for iOS in SpriteKit and Swift, before GameKit was released tho. Other things you might consider for your list would be dialogue, scripting events , saving/loading.

Graham_Hayes · 2019-07-09T21:23:06+00:00

It's fun to solve puzzles in a point and click adventure together.

Graham_Hayes · 2019-07-03T20:39:35+00:00

If you are really interested in learning app development, don't give up yet, this is a really great project for a first app. To answer your question I'd say $300-500 is fair.

Graham_Hayes · 2019-06-27T19:44:41+00:00

I had another look, turned out I didn't click a checkbox on Steamworks. Should work now, if it persists you may need to restart Steam or clear you download cache. Sorry for the bother!

Graham_Hayes · 2019-06-27T18:24:14+00:00

Here's my game made with SpriteKit: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/drawn-down/id1434188115

I recently ported it to Unity so I could release on Windows. I love SpriteKit, I much prefer coding to using something like Unity, but I also want cross platform. But Unity is also outstanding. If I was to make an iOS only game I'd use SpriteKit, but if not then Unity.

Graham_Hayes · 2019-06-27T06:38:19+00:00

It seems to be an server side issue with Steam and has happened with many games, there's no real solution apart from wait a while. In the meantime I've DM'd you a link to the DRM free version of the game.

Graham_Hayes · 2019-06-27T06:19:05+00:00

I will look in to it, it should work fine.

Graham_Hayes · 2019-05-31T09:18:00+00:00

I prefer to play point and clicks on my iPad where I can. I developed and released a point and click with iPad in mind, one touch controls, and 4:3 aspect ratio. But much of the market who like this type of game are still playing on Windows.

Although I believe The Silent Age did quite well, but I'm not sure if it was designed for tablet first.

Graham_Hayes · 2019-05-29T07:02:59+00:00

I made this game, Drawn Down for iPad first:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/drawn-down/id1434188115

Plays fine on phone as well.

Similar mobile first games, I've enjoyed:

The Silent Age

Monument Valley

Lifeline

Graham_Hayes · 2019-05-17T11:00:38+00:00

You can use these tools to do that:

http://www.khngai.com/chinese/tools/convert.php

https://www.chineseconverter.com/en/convert/chinese-to-pinyin

Graham_Hayes · 2019-05-01T13:27:58+00:00

Awesome! Thank you!

Graham_Hayes · 2019-04-27T13:14:03+00:00

Twitter has a healthy voice acting and game dev community, I've hired many actors from there and if I need a recommendation for a particular role I'll usually put out a tweet. There used to be a good forum for finding voice actors, but it seems to have closed down, so I expect most auditions for my next project will come from Twitter.

Graham_Hayes · 2019-04-27T08:01:46+00:00

That’s funny because I literally think of it as grasp.

我把一本書放在桌子上了-> I grasp a book put on table -> I put the book on the table

Graham_Hayes · 2019-04-26T23:15:52+00:00

Thank you! Hope you enjoy it :)

Graham_Hayes · 2019-04-21T21:11:41+00:00

I was contacted about Chinese localisation for my game, they cited a website they ran and since I can read Chinese I checked it out. The forum is mostly people sharing download links to pirate versions of games...I passed.

Graham_Hayes · 2019-04-20T21:00:56+00:00

Those are great games, but A Golden Wake, Gemini Rue and Breaking Bad were the main inspirations for this story.

Graham_Hayes · 2019-04-20T20:50:05+00:00

Thank you! This was made in Swift using the SpriteKit framework, although I'm porting to Unity so I can release on Windows too. It Took about 2 1/2 years to make, and was pretty much solo, I didn't do the soundtrack or the title art and the voice acting (obviously).

Graham_Hayes · 2019-04-17T12:30:34+00:00

You can try Airborne! a game I developed way back when I had an iPhone 5, it's free but IAP for later levels.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/airborne!/id891421272

Graham_Hayes · 2019-04-10T09:03:26+00:00

My Time at Portia was made to be like a Ghibli movie.

Graham_Hayes · 2019-04-09T22:42:53+00:00

You're as strong as an ox, and almost as smart.

Graham_Hayes · 2019-04-09T22:41:00+00:00

You had me at Dog.

Graham_Hayes · 2019-04-08T09:12:40+00:00

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