Justice Hammer starring Gavin McGavel
Justice Hammer starring Gavin McGavel is a game where you play as the judge in a series of courtroom cases.
It is structured as a visual novel, but with a twist: At any point during the trials, you may chose to deliver you verdict and decide if the defendant is guilty or not guilty!
Depending on your choices, the story will change.
Justice Hammer contains three cases, but you will only see two of them in a single playthrough. To get to the others ones, go back and change the choices you make!
Justice Hammer is only played using the spacebar, as it is my entry for the 1-button jam 2023! It was entirely written and developed by me, FFenril, as my first solo game jam experience :)
Please leave your thoughts in the comments (or message me via Bluesky) if Justice Hammer interested you!
This game supports mobile devices, but please make sure you put your phone in landscape mode!
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The Game Jam theme was three words : "Plan/e, charge, invoke".
This game involves defendants having bad plans, being charged for crimes they may or may have not committed, and invoking their rights. It’s got nothing about planes though :)
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Credits :
- Fancy dialogue UI by Ezra
- Cartoon balls by gamedeveloperstudio
- Ambient LoFi Jazz by Rusted Music Studio
- Gavel sound by odditonic
- Synty Studio for the assets used in the project
- The Ace Attorney series, for making courtroom dramas so fun to play, and allowing me to come up with this fun twist
Development log
- Post-jam polish!Nov 27, 2023
Comments
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Wow, I'm impressed, that's beautiful and well designed. It's a pleasure to follow and judge those cases. Congrats!
What a nice and creative idea, I loved making verdicts. It would be great if the verdicts had some additional influence in the future (more than in these to scenes). I'm curious about this uprising if you plan on developing it further
The first verdict actually has an influence beyond its own scene! It changes the second case you get :)
I think it’d be interesting to develop it further but I’d have to think more about having an overarching story. I’d also like to have the characters react a bit differently if you give the verdict super early :)