Oddities

This is a sub-page of Crushed In Time.

Chapter 1#

Living Room Differences#

Sherlock's and Watson's living room had some various changes, noticable between the in-game version, game's 2025 teaser and even Steam profile background (purchasable from Steam's Points Shop) which was added around a month after the game's release.

Steam Screenshot	In-game	Steam Profile Background

• In-game's version is the only one missing a picture of a tree, placed above the exit doors. This wasn't present even in the early 2026 demo. Interestingly, the texture of this room still contains that unused picture.
• Steam profile background contains a framed note (probably a diploma), above the chimney.

Chapter 2#

Hidden vent screenshot#

Texture Be_ManorLabM_Grids_Diffuse, which is the one used for Manor's vent grids, contains a cropped-out screenshot of one of the grids being open. Interestingly, this isn't representing the actual in-game setting, since grids in Chapter 2 cannot be interacted with (and so, they always remain closed) and in Chapter 3, they have a green "alpha" outline.

Chapter 3#

Pre-release "Watch&Play" game#

In the game's 2025 teaser, the "Watch&Play" minigame looked completely different than what's present in the final version.

2025 Teaser	In-game

• The game was originally titled CHRONO DENSETSU 2, before it was renamed to DEADLY NUMBERS,
• The side buttons were originally called GAME, TIME and SET, before they were changed to GAME A, GAME B and ALARM,
• Instead of the various alarm icons, the minigame had a clock system. This means, that the game might have had a different puzzle, which could be related to a player setting a correct time. Although this puzzle was removed, the game still contains some unused sounds of it in its files.

Chapter 4#

Skipped Voiceline#

After the player flings Sherlock Holmes upwards, the game then proceeds to play the voiceline Proto_Room01_Ejected, which in-game is made out of two audio clips. However, the game files and the localization file reveal, that it was supposed to be made out of three audio clips, with an additional voiceline being placed at the start of the whole dialogue:

Proto
┕ Proto_Room01_Ejected01wav
┕ Proto_Room01_Ejected02
┕ Proto_Room01_Ejected03

Because the first audio clip contains an appended "wav" to its filename, it contradicts the text ID present in the localization file:

Since the TextID in the file reads Proto_Room01_Ejected01, the audio clip cannot be played and gets skipped. If the TextID gets manually edited to Proto_Room01_Ejected01wav, the clip can be restored and be heard in-game.

Chapter 5#

"AVOID" Sound Effect#

When the player is prompted to quickly react to avoid an obstacle, an alarming sound plays named REMA_GPE_Action_Timed_Alarm_LP_01. This sound is actually pitched up in-game, compared to the source sound found in the files.

Chapter 6#

Development Notes#

To do: Decode the "???" parts, or at least put in an inference that would make sense within the context.

Chapter 6 takes place in DRAW ME A PIXEL's meeting room, where there are some notes laying around the table. It's impossible to see what's written on them in-game, but digging through the game's texture files reveals that some of them appear to be related to the game's development (doubling in-game as notes for the game that the in-game version of DRAW ME A PIXEL is making).

The following notes come from the texture bg_MeetingRoom_Props_Diffuse+Rough, and are written in French.

Texture	Text	Translation
	Gameplay 4: Voie anim in one mouton pour avoir la main sur la trajectoire - Cheminée ajourter squish rythme a chaque rythme beat. changer le point de pivot en bas . A la base. - Essayer squish rythme chaque beat pour les persos. - Switch de position de la pomme entre 2 persos pratiquement instantané - Frappe la pomme -squish dans n'importe quellle direction - Squish de réception d'un persos avec la pomme.	Gameplay 4: Check animation in out sheep to control the trajectory - Chimney added squish rhythm at each rhythm beat. change the pivot point to the bottom, at the base. - Try squish rhythm at each beat for the characters - Switch the position of the apple between 2 characters basically instantaneously - Strike the apple - squish in any direction - Squish of landing of a character with the apple
	- Mouton quand il se tourne. le nuage doit avoir le même comportement que country side . fx pas même direction quand y en à plusieurs - scale ??? cheminée squish x - revoir le modèle de la cheminée - augmenter range snap - eff - desynchro persos en déplacant la pomme. - son - fx furmée lors de l'éjection. - revoir le squish de la cheminée x - ne pas pourvoir réinitialiser le tableau penché -	- Sheep when he's turning the cloud must have the same behavior as country side . fx not in the same direction when there are multiples - scale ??? chimney squish x - redo the chimney model - increase range snap - eff - desync characters when moving the apple - sound - fx smoke during the ejection - redo the chimney squish x - Can't reset the tilted painting -
	- Cheveux d'emma fix graphique - agrandir ? ? - fx de smoke quand perso et pomme / mouton touche le sol - 1er Quand on envoie un personnage en arrière créer une anim repoussement push back. - 4 Temps - 3 temps à a revenir quand il est frappé 4 temps il est a ne pas anim de course - tête penchée en avant / en arrière - ajouter système de balance chaque erreur 0,25,0,0' erreur 0,03 + réussit 0,015 - maintient 0,3	- Emma's hairs graphical fix - enlarge?? - fx of smoke when the character and apple/sheep touch the ground - 1st when you throw a character to the back create a pushback animation. - 4 Beats - 3 beats to come back when he is struck 4 beats he is ?????? running animation - head tilted back / forth - add a balance system each errors 0.25,0.0' error 0.03 + success 0.015 - maintain 0.3

"Please do not read this"#

In the asset bg_MeetingRoom_TableauElements_Diffuse+Rough02, which contains textures for whiteboard items, there is a hidden message on a yellow background which reads "Please do not read this" (not to be confused with the actual "Please do not read this" text, used at the back of the "Good Ideas" note).

Chapter 10#

Hidden suitcases screenshot#

Similarly to the hidden screenshot in Chapter 2's texture, Chapter 10 includes a cropped screenshot of the suitcases, hidden in the texture Pr_Train_Case_diffuse. Again, this is not representing the actual in-game setting.

Miscellaneous#

Office Monitors#

At the beginning of the game, where we go through DRAW ME A PIXEL's office, we can see several computer monitors with software parodies related to game development. Most of them are quite well visible in-game, while some are left in the background, unseen by the player. All of those screens come from a texture t_screenAtlas.