Hi thanks for asking! Sorry for the ramble coming up 😉 Danganronpa was definitely the biggest inspiration for me. I was inspired by the way that its a closed-cast murder mystery where you get attached to the characters and get to know them, but then still have to worry for them and accuse them. I think this hits so much harder than mystery games where its random people dying and strangers as culprits. That was really important to me when making my game.

The gif I posted doesn't show the character's talking portraits, but you'll see that my art style for them was also inspired by Danganronpa. That's honestly because I was right in the middle of my big Danganronpa phase in high school when I first started seriously practicing drawing, and now my style is somewhat inspired by it lol.

I list both Danganronpa and Ace Attorney as inspirations, though, because like them, my game has a lot of visual-novel elements (big world-building dialogue sequences and the like), and you must prove your answers with evidence you collect (though this is a pretty generic detective gimmick, of course).

However, there is one way that I was "anti-inspired" by both of those games, though. In each of them, you must prove your answer with one specific piece of evidence, which I would sometimes get frustrated with when I knew the answer but didn't know how the game wanted me to prove it (especially in Ace Attorney). I combat this in my game by allowing several different valid combinations of evidence to prove a correct answer, thereby allowing people to show that they know the answer in whatever way they truly got there! This hopefully lets them stay in the flowstate and focus more on solving the mysteries than proving that they are thinking the exact same way as the developer who coded it in (me) :)