Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze v1.04 is a fact!

The big update! Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze has been updated to v1.04 with achievements and trading cards! You can now boast to your friends about catching any one of the suspects and completing the game, as well as finding small secrets in the story.

But that’s not all! Playing Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze will now give you trading cards! You can collect a full set to create badges and gain emoticons and backgrounds for your Steam profile page. All these are hand-crafted by the awesome studio Enalya for your enjoyment.

So, what are you waiting for? Those crooks are not gonna catch themselves! Go play Detective Hank and the Goldens Sneeze for the fame and glory that is fit for the greatest detective in the world!

Big update coming up!

Coming Friday, we will release the biggest update to Detective Hank as of yet, and still bump the version number by 0.01 to v1.04. It will feature the most requested update as of yet plus a couple of minor bugfixes.

What will it be? What will we do? If you’ve been contacting to us, you probably wanted what’s coming in this update. If you really want to know, don’t you just love surprises?

Keep your eyes peeled coming Friday, 7 October.

Detective Hank version 1.03

Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze has been updated to version 1.03! The game is now usable on more platforms due to the new features of this release.

The new features of this update include:

• This game is now fully touch-screen compatible. If you want to play the game on a Windows tablet or other PC with touch screen, every button is now fully usable.
• We've added gamepad support! You can now enjoy Detective Hank from the comfort of your couch and solve the mystery on a big screen with your friends and family.
• The gamepad support together with Linux support makes Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze now fully playable on Steam OS.

But we are not done yet! In a couple of weeks we hope to bring you the next big update. Stay tuned!

Detective Hank version 1.02

Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze has been updated to version 1.02! Apart from fixing a couple of glitches, we've also been listening to the feedback from the community and started implementing new features to the engine.

This update includes 2 new features:

• You can now jump to the next choice. If you feel the need to get straight to the next choice when, for example, you want to 100% the game, you can do so in the pause menu. Select the gutton to jump to the next choice and see the whole game fly by at super speed until the next choice arrives.
• The mouse scroll wheel now lets you read back previous text. If you missed a part of the story by an accidental click or jumping ahead with the new jump feature, you can now read back previous text by scrolling up with your mouse wheel. Incidentally, scrolling down brings you back to the end again.

In the coming weeks we will be releasing more updates. Keep an eye on our site and Steam page!

A lot happened the past weeks

With the Steam release we've been very busy preparing for the new update and we've had a lot of offers for new stores. This post is to keep all of you up to date, but it can't look as fancy as we usually do.

IndieGala

Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze is now available on the Indie Gala store here. This is a store separate from Steam that sells Steam keys. We've launched with a 20% discount that will be available until Wednesday 17 August.

Lazy Guys Bundle

Detective Hank got the top spot in the Lazy Guys Bundle #18: Summer Light. This bundle is available until 29 August 2016.

Giveaway at PCGamesN

And last, but not least: We have a lovely giveaway promo at PCGamesN.com for the next 24 hours.

Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze is doing great and will do even greater. There is an update coming up that will add a couple of features to the engine to enhance your enjoyment. Keep an eye on the Steam page!

Detective Hank released on Steam today!

After a lot of hard work, Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze finally released today on Steam. Become the greatest detective that ever lived in this interactive whodunnit with a different culprit for each playthrough. Buy it now!

'Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze' available on Steam coming Friday!

Coming Friday 'Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze' will release on Steam Greenlight. If you purchase Detective Hank on itch.io or Indie Game Stand, or have done so in the past, you will receive a key to redeem on Steam too!

Save the date!

Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze now available on Indie Game Stand!

Indie Game Stand has joined our places of distribution. We start off with a 10% discount. Go buy it now!

Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze released!

We have released Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze! Don't waste your time and buy it now on itch.io for only $9.99!

But that's not all, we've got more! You can buy the soundtrack here on the composer's site for only 3 Euros.

Itch.io was the easiest platform to release on, but in the coming weeks we will be looking at more platforms. We are looking to branch out to different systems, but we will reveal the details later on. Also, Detective Hank is still up for votes on Steam Greenlight, so make sure to give us an upvote.

And last, but not least, we have a blog post about the making of Detective Hank! You might know how a visual novel is made, but did you know we made our own scripting system and that it can be used for more than just visual novels? Go read it now at this link! (After you bought the game, of course, we need to eat.)

17 June 2016: Release Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze

On 17 June 2016 we will release Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze. We will start on itch.io, but we will expand to more stores, one at a time.

Save the date!

More music coming up!

As there is quite some demand for the music of Detective Hank, we've released the next set. The 2 tracks from the demo "Detective Hank; A Prelude to Tea" are now available for your enjoyment on the Youtube channel of Storytime Symphony.

Come play the Detective Hank demo prelude.

We are happy to announce the demo prelude to "Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze," called "Detective Hank; A Prelude to Tea." This prelude contains a completely different story, so you can play it separately and with no spoilers.

Play Detective Hank; a Prelude to Tea on itch.io

Detective Hank finds himself at tea after work hours when his cookie gets stolen. Since Hank is a detective, he's going to find out who took his cookie and in the mean time, get himself another cookie from the kitchen.

Features of this prelude:

• Find out whodunnit in 3 different scenario story lines
• Changing clues, depending on the culprit
• Red herrings, not every clue points to the right culprit

We hope you'll enjoy this demo. The full game will have more suspects, more culprits, more locations and more functions, including a save option.

Detective Hank: Stay awhile and listen to the full trailer song.

For "Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze" we wanted to put extra care into the music and it seems you all really appreciate that. On social media, during play tests and even discussing the game casually, people tell us that the music is fun and nice to listen to. Thank you all for your kind feedback!

To show our gratitude, we had a talk with our music composer, Storytime Symphony, and we decided to release the game music song by song. To start off, we released the music from the game's trailer, a song called "Let me think". You can listen to it on Youtube or here in the embedded player:

"Let me Think" is part of the full game's soundtrack to "Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze." If you want to support the game, please vote for us on Steam Greenlight (or take a look in the steam client) and share the links with all your friends!

Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze follows the trail to Steam Greenlight

We are eager to announce that “Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze,” our upcoming interactive whodunnit visual novel, is now up for votes on Steam Greenlight. Go take a look in your browser or take a look directly in your steam client.

But why would you want to read about us when we also released a perfectly good trailer to go with our Greenlight campaign? Enjoy!

We did not build this project on our own. Art is provided by studio Enalya, music is provided by the upcoming Storytime Symphony and our trailer is voiced by the lovely Francesca Hogan.

Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze is scheduled for release in june 2016. In the mean time we will be working hard on finishing it and we hope you will enjoy playing the game as much as we had making it.

Vote for us on Steam Greenlight! In your browser or directly in your steam client.

New game coming out in the next months

At Obsessive Science Games things might have seemed quiet on the outside, but secretly we've been working hard on a new title. We proudly present to you: Detective Hank!

What kind of game will it be? When is it coming out? Who said it will be just one game? Keep an eye on this website for the coming months and you will find out!