Thanks! Yes, partially (AMOC games are great!), as other point'n'clicks like LucasArts ones. But another source of inspiration was L.A. Noire, as we really wanted to focus on the detective side (no "rubber chicken with a pulley" syndrom).
With photoshop. Set the pencil tool to one pixel and export twice as large with resampling set to 'nearest neighbour'. The levels are created with a program called 'Tiled'. See http://www.mapeditor.org/
I must reference Schrödinger in dimension 9 conversation with wormhole aliens. Will take care of that in next version. Can imagine a cat question :P Thanks for comment!
Thanks!!! :)