SNIFF is a game in which you can use drugs on yourself or your enemies to get out of a crazy hospital ! But beware of side effects ...
We created all assets, 3D models, animations, sounds, scripts, level design, concept during the last 72 hours and we've been very ambitious with this game that could be widely improved but we strongly suggest you to try it because that's a really insane experience ...
BugFix : After two days we decided to do a minor update to fix the MouseLook bug when player is upside down.
The drug effect was very interesting and well done. I had a hard time getting past the first set of pits - the character's jump seems to just barely make it and I got frustrated having to start over from the beginning over and over.
This is great! Really enjoy the concept, although the mental hospital theme both tired and insensitive to people who suffer in those institutions. I feel that the drugs threw so slowly that it was very difficult to accurately land them at a pursuer's feet. If they acted faster I could aim them much better. I also think the blue drugs may as well knock off the baddies just like the red, as stalling them temporarily didn't seem to add much. In terms of aesthetic presentation: audio was definitely noticeably weaker than game's graphics which were superb. Overall: excellent work!
I really like the concept and the mechanics! The graphics and music are great as well. The jumping and the controls need some work though. Still, great job!
Nice idead and well nice fitting graphics, but gameplay felt unnecessarily hard. Jumping felt weird and i died way to oft to enemies because of three things: They stand in place while i predicted they would have noticed me, the splash was to small, or they noticed me, i throwed the drug and then the splash took way to long.
I found that you can go super fast by holding 2 movement keys (W+A or W+D). You can clear really big gaps this way... I got myself stuck in an area I wasn't supposed to have access to.
Shiiiit, this is awesome. Just awesome. Great take on the theme. Visually fantastic - you picked a great minimalist art style and it works brilliantly for your style of game.
What lets you down I think is just a product of the rushed development - the controls feel floaty and difficult, and the difficulty scale is sort of all over the place. I had a lot of trouble lining up my drug bottles.
I hope you expand on this post-jam, you got something here!
I was just wondering the other day what to do with that new Unity free screen effects like the twisty thing :) Really rad, great presentation, nice concept, but it all seems pretty arbitrary - what I mean is that I don't know what I'm doing, despite there being a tutorial.
The pills go through the orderly when you throw it at them - I guess the collision is only with the ground, which seems like a bug.
Then a pill making you go through doors would do what to someone else? Surely the same thing? It doesn't make sense mechanically that way.
Sometimes the mouse seemed to lock up without any reason I could tell.
Generally good, but I'd like to see more mechanical consistency for this to be fun.
Being in the heat of the chase is pretty fun! Make it easier to pick up the drug bottles though. I love the minimalistic graphics and color scheme. Reminds me of Mirror's Edge
I severely love the "use item for ability or weapon" balancing act you had. Visual the game is simple, but amazing to look at, especially the drug effects. I got lost towards the end and found the estimating the jump to get over the laser frustrating at times. Good Work.
This game is fantastic! Excellent on all accounts. However the jump is very floaty " Which may be your intention" but it made jumps harder than they needed to be because it was hard to pinpoint where I was. Otherwise very good work.
Great work! Super easy to get disoriented so I would have appreciated some type of indicator of what direction the exit was, and I had some occasional issues with mouse look, but otherwise quite a successful game.
This is really cool, the idea is great and the mood feels right. I just wish it was less linear and gamey you know like I feel you could have done something really weird!
HI! A thousand THANKS to all of you for your encouraging comments and feedbacks. It was a huge pleasure to make this game and that’s really the best reward to see you playing and enjoying it.
We take note of everything you tell us and be sure that we will implement and fix SNIFF to offer a better experience.
Actually we just pushed a little bug fix that was really annoying: the mouse look problem. During the JAM we did’nt get the time to implement a smooth Mouse Look when Player is going upside down. It was a pain in the ass but in the rush we let it like this and submitted a buggy version. We just fixed that and we have to say that’s wayyyyy better now.
There is of course a lot more to do but for now we want to let the game as we did it during the jam.
As a few people asked for it and we want to go further, we wil do a post jam version and implement a few ideas you gave us like checkpoints feedbacks, better tutorial, physic corrections, etc…
THANKS again for your support and be sure that we go rate games of each people who posted a comment on this page.
Vraiment intéressant, bravo pour tous les effets, et l'ambiance que vous avez créée ! C'était parfois un peu frustrant de réussir à attraper les pilules avec le petit point (notamment si un ennemi nous poursuit), mais ceci mis à part vraiment impressionné par le boulot (et joli doublage :p).
The idea is really good, and the art is amazing, however I'm not really a fan of the character physic and the game is pretty difficult. Also knowing where the checkpoints are could have been cool. Anyway, these are just details, you have done a great job!
Really cool/inventive game. I can't fathom how you did the twisted camera distortion in unity, is that a special library or something? Also can I ask what FPS controller you used? Or did you write the script from scratch for LD as well.
Great stuff, good graphics, cool mechanic. A bit hard but I beat it and I like challenging games.
Really really good entry! Loved the effects when you took the drugs, the graphics were smooth and so was the audio. Was a little frustrating jumping over the lasers though! Overall, really good job!
It reminds me of SUPERHOT a bit, I liked the concept and art style. The music was a little repetitive, the web version is a bit broken. I could clip through walls and doors.
Great concept, fantastic art and animation, superb music. Mechanics could do with a lot of polish though - jumping is frustratingly floaty, upside-down drug causes all sorts of control problems while transitioning, enemy hitboxes feel unfair, thrown drugs passing straight through enemies is frustrating.
Amazing game! i found a bug allowing you to easily skip huge portions of the game by hugging the wall though. i really love the drug effect and i wish this game had more!
-> joe40001 : Hi! for the distorted camera we used the Vortex image effect form Unity. You have many powerfull post process camera effect in there. Concerning the Character Controller we coded our own from scratch (mouse look, controls, physics) but that was not our best idea cause we didn't have the time to polish it. Anyway we learnt a lot by making it and that's what we are looking for when participating in a jam so no regrets and we will polish it later.
How stoned while programming? :D Srsly: Very Funny Idea....Drugs as a Weapon. Nice Sounds The Graphics: Well 3D Game for 72h Jam, nothing more to say so its fine. The only thing i dont like: After 10 mins. of playing i still didnt found sth. like Game Goal. Maybe a tutorial or Hint is needed
Absolutely fantastic, this is an incredibly well done game! I was blown away by the quality of the graphics-- especially the drug effects! Super trippy, super cool! Excellent work!
Thanks for the response, yeah unity has some standard character controller librarys but they are kinda lame. You game is really great, about the only negative is that it's disorienting as far as where you are and where you are headed, and the hitboxes on the spin lasers on the final hallway aren't clear (I had to just dodge them, but they are low enough that it looks like you can jump them).
These are super minor complaints though, the only reason a game like this wouldn't get top 10 in Ludum Dare is just because the competition is so competitive. Basically, you made an awesome game and you deserve a high ranking for it.
Interesting game... Would like to see the use of 'drugs' to be a bit more creative like the very first one I used at the start to get through the door. (at least i think it was the reason I got through the door) Like warping the players reality briefly to open up a different path.
Fun game and a neat concept, the drug effects were cool. The controls felt a little off. Jump felt too low, and the speed changed when you run diagonally (although that did make gaps easier to clear). Graphics were really well done, and the puzzles were challenging and interesting. I really enjoyed this one, great job!
It's an interesting project which uses some efficient shaders - maybe too much. Controls seem to me a little bit awkward, but it's good enough. Thumbs up ++
As others noted, the controls were pretty hard to work with, and having to return all the way to the start was frustrating in a "I think I'll go do something else" way, not a "oooh, I'll beat this if it's the last thing I do" way.
The drug effects were cool, and just enough to make motion difficult. It would have been neat to see a location that explained why drugs allow you to walk through walls, etc -- the asylum is (again, as others noted) a bit of a tired idea, and the least exciting part of the game to me.
Still, super cool work, and a great accomplishment for 72 hours!
Wow, I think this is the entry I found the most bugs and minor problems in! * It's quite difficult to pick up drugs, they are small. * They just fly through an enemy. Why not exploding upon colliding? * Checkpoints don't save your angle, and you might respawn facing backwards. * Some objects are not visible through glass sometimes, like enemies and drugs (including those in my hand). * Seems like the "windows" key is also a hotkey for sniffing. * You are caught when you barely touch an enemy. If you walk from behind, you get caught without getting noticed. * I found some drugs just floating in the air, twice. For the first time, it was a red dose flying high somewhere after a big floorless room, I couldn't pick it up, maybe because it's too high. The second time, it was 3 flying blue doses in the last corridor, I could pick up them, but the cursor only changes when I hover over one of them, not over other 2. * I can abuse checkpoints to lose/gain drugs I get when respawning, though I'm not sure how. I lost 1, then gained 2, then gained 2 more. It was by the last corridor. * Seems like I got stuck in the ceiling just before the last room. I was able to move, but my field of view was jumping up and down.
Sorry for the wall of text. Also, another problem is that I don't feel my legs. I mean, jumping is difficult, I died on lasers so much! Like, seriously, maybe you wanted to make a game about how bad drugs are, but lasers seem a lot worse.
Other than that, the game is great. I liked the level design a lot, you seem to give many choices about how to pass a room. And it was quite atmospheric, though I wish you made the scenery more detailed and various.
Slick! Bit on the hard side though? Seems like I had to disable all the guards and go across most of the level to get through the second door, and since disabled guards are still a threat it was too much for me...
Can you explain why you go over to shit on my entry and called it bugged without even giving some usefull feedback? Turned me off enough not to try your game.
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nice shaders though :)
I agree this is a concept to explore. I'm still on red drug :p.
I found that you can go super fast by holding 2 movement keys (W+A or W+D). You can clear really big gaps this way... I got myself stuck in an area I wasn't supposed to have access to.
What lets you down I think is just a product of the rushed development - the controls feel floaty and difficult, and the difficulty scale is sort of all over the place. I had a lot of trouble lining up my drug bottles.
I hope you expand on this post-jam, you got something here!
I'd 2nd others comments about tightening the controls, and perhaps the check-pointing.
The pills go through the orderly when you throw it at them - I guess the collision is only with the ground, which seems like a bug.
Then a pill making you go through doors would do what to someone else? Surely the same thing? It doesn't make sense mechanically that way.
Sometimes the mouse seemed to lock up without any reason I could tell.
Generally good, but I'd like to see more mechanical consistency for this to be fun.
However, movement is quite bugged (unnormalized) Diagonal speed is much higher.
And this game has some really good UI.
Check ours too if you want http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=44367
When an enemy caught me, there was an Unity console error.
I just want to comment please add checkpoint notification.
We take note of everything you tell us and be sure that we will implement and fix SNIFF to offer a better experience.
Actually we just pushed a little bug fix that was really annoying: the mouse look problem. During the JAM we did’nt get the time to implement a smooth Mouse Look when Player is going upside down. It was a pain in the ass but in the rush we let it like this and submitted a buggy version. We just fixed that and we have to say that’s wayyyyy better now.
There is of course a lot more to do but for now we want to let the game as we did it during the jam.
As a few people asked for it and we want to go further, we wil do a post jam version and implement a few ideas you gave us like checkpoints feedbacks, better tutorial, physic corrections, etc…
THANKS again for your support and be sure that we go rate games of each people who posted a comment on this page.
Much love and JAM spirit !
Anyway, these are just details, you have done a great job!
Great stuff, good graphics, cool mechanic. A bit hard but I beat it and I like challenging games.
Srsly: Very Funny Idea....Drugs as a Weapon.
Nice Sounds
The Graphics: Well 3D Game for 72h Jam, nothing more to say so its fine.
The only thing i dont like: After 10 mins. of playing i still didnt found sth. like Game Goal. Maybe a tutorial or Hint is needed
These are super minor complaints though, the only reason a game like this wouldn't get top 10 in Ludum Dare is just because the competition is so competitive. Basically, you made an awesome game and you deserve a high ranking for it.
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good job with this hallucinogen
Loved the theme, graphics, and gameplay. I don't have any cons, really, just that I would love to see a more developed version of it1.
As others noted, the controls were pretty hard to work with, and having to return all the way to the start was frustrating in a "I think I'll go do something else" way, not a "oooh, I'll beat this if it's the last thing I do" way.
The drug effects were cool, and just enough to make motion difficult. It would have been neat to see a location that explained why drugs allow you to walk through walls, etc -- the asylum is (again, as others noted) a bit of a tired idea, and the least exciting part of the game to me.
Still, super cool work, and a great accomplishment for 72 hours!
* It's quite difficult to pick up drugs, they are small.
* They just fly through an enemy. Why not exploding upon colliding?
* Checkpoints don't save your angle, and you might respawn facing backwards.
* Some objects are not visible through glass sometimes, like enemies and drugs (including those in my hand).
* Seems like the "windows" key is also a hotkey for sniffing.
* You are caught when you barely touch an enemy. If you walk from behind, you get caught without getting noticed.
* I found some drugs just floating in the air, twice. For the first time, it was a red dose flying high somewhere after a big floorless room, I couldn't pick it up, maybe because it's too high. The second time, it was 3 flying blue doses in the last corridor, I could pick up them, but the cursor only changes when I hover over one of them, not over other 2.
* I can abuse checkpoints to lose/gain drugs I get when respawning, though I'm not sure how. I lost 1, then gained 2, then gained 2 more. It was by the last corridor.
* Seems like I got stuck in the ceiling just before the last room. I was able to move, but my field of view was jumping up and down.
Sorry for the wall of text. Also, another problem is that I don't feel my legs. I mean, jumping is difficult, I died on lasers so much! Like, seriously, maybe you wanted to make a game about how bad drugs are, but lasers seem a lot worse.
Other than that, the game is great. I liked the level design a lot, you seem to give many choices about how to pass a room. And it was quite atmospheric, though I wish you made the scenery more detailed and various.