We would first like to introduce ourselves.![image]()
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We are Omnibell, a company founded in 1991 in New York City. We developed several software and games for obscure platforms, such as the Phillips CDI. We recently posted on this forum as "Stinky Foot Games", which has been merged with Omnibell to form the new company generation of Omnibell. Our best known title, Urban Murderfiles Episode 1: New York City, was released exclusively on the platform and was a detective point and click/visual novel hybrid game. The game was about you, a detective, needing to solve the mystery of a murder in central park, which would take you to several locations about the city!
Here is a screenshot of the original game running in a CDI Emulator on Windows in our office:
The new game will play similar to the old game. It will however, not be a direct sequel. The series was planned to be an episodic crime detective game with each episode set in a different location. Springport was never planned as location 2. Infact, The Location was intended for the original version of Episode 2 to be in New Jersey, but the game was cancelled before release. The sequel was intended to be released on the CDI in 97, but low sales of the console caused us to reconsider.
We plan to release Episode 2 by December 1st 2014 exclusively on the Ouya. We also have the source code for the original game, and plan to port that to Ouya and release it around the same time.
We want some feedback though! Anyone interested in Crime/Detective visual novels?
We want some feedback though! Anyone interested in Crime/Detective visual novels?
(Also, now that we look at the main menu from the original game, us being from NYC, we are a bit sad to see the twin towers there... if you know what we mean...)