iPhone · In development
The Fjord Detectives
Nothing in Sundvik is quite what it seems.
A comic detective game set in Sundvik, a small, made-up Norwegian fjord town. You search the scenes, question the witnesses, catch them lying and put the solution together yourself — nobody does it for you.
The detectives
Bjørn is a grumpy detective with a notebook who has seen it all before. Leif is his young partner — tall, eager and curious, with a camera round his neck. And then there is Turbo, a scruffy dog who often finds the trail before either of them.
How it plays
- Search the scenes for clues — every location is drawn for the game
- Question witnesses; everything they say goes into the notebook
- Hold a statement up against a clue that contradicts it, and the lie falls apart
- Test theories about what happened, and finally prove who did it
- Stuck? Turbo helps — step by step, without giving the answer away at once
The cases
- The Last Ferry — the last ferry docked on time and a car is left on the quay, but its owner has vanished. Five locations.
- Room No. 7 — a hotel guest never came out of his room, yet someone ordered breakfast from it at ten past seven. Nine locations.
- Cold Storage — the alarm went off at an old cold store, nothing was taken, and it was logged as a false alarm. Thirteen locations.
The cases are connected: small details from one turn up in the next. New cases arrive as updates to the same game.
Fair puzzles
Every case should be solvable by thinking, not guessing. Before a case goes into the game, it is checked automatically: every lie must be exposable with a clue the player can actually find, the timeline must add up, and once all the evidence is in, only one solution may remain.
Status
The first three cases are playable from start to finish on iPhone, with illustrated scenes and voice acting in four languages. The game is not yet in the App Store. I do the stories, game design, voices and programming.
Technical: Swift, SwiftUI, cases described as data and automatic checking of every solution. Pictures and graphics are made with AI tools.