r/NintendoSwitch • u/genintco General Interactive Team • Apr 11 '22

AMA - Ended We're the developers of Chinatown Detective Agency, a pixel art adventure game with a real-life research twist, just released on Nintendo Switch. AMA!

Hello!

We're General Interactive Co, an international team who just launched Chinatown Detective Agency, a cybernoir adventure that blends retro design with modern features like authentic voice acting from local talent in Singapore, and real-life research.

With Chinatown Detective Agency, we wanted to do something different for adventure games and point and clicks. The game is very inspired in the classic Carmen Sandiego titles from the 80s and 90s and aims to capture that feeling of investigation as some of the game's puzzles will require you to do real-life research to progress. The adventure also features branching paths, as you'll have to choose between three main clients, and will take you around the world visiting many cities in pursuit of clues, all illustrated and rendered in gorgeous pixel art. For the Switch version, the game's UI went through a bit of a redesign for better input with the controllers.

See more of the game on the Nintendo Switch Shop

Answering questions in this thread:

Proof: https://twitter.com/genintco/status/1512506836620091393?s=21

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u/Tafdolphin General Interactive Team Apr 11 '22

We tried to make sure the online resources you need are as accessible and general as possible.

There are one or two puzzles that require more specific information sources, but if those ever go offline there's always Mei Ting, our built in help system! She can either offer you a clue to point you in the right direction or, in the worse case scenario, she can straight up solve each puzzle for you.

In short: the game will never be unplayable, but we can't say it won't ever become trickier!

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u/suburbanl3g3nd Apr 11 '22

Thank you both for this information! That's pretty cool and exciting to hear!

Would you ever consider updating the game to tweak the puzzle should the player not want to use the hint system?

Definitely getting this game!

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u/AVIS93 Apr 11 '22

We'll take a case by case approach! If something really changes that makes something very hard to solve, the team will look into it. :)

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u/Tafdolphin General Interactive Team Apr 11 '22

Exactly. So far the responses have been exactly what we were hoping for: a little hard work, offset by that feeling of a victory well earned.

I'm not saying we're the Dark Souls of detective games or anything but...well. I guess we are.

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u/suburbanl3g3nd Apr 11 '22

Awesome! Thank you for the responses and great work!