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A jam submission

Sanity DepartmentView game page

Take the pills. Keep shooting. Stay sane.
Submitted by Not Always Green, Pixie@has, granularbiomes — 2 hours, 8 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Sound#123.9003.900
Gameplay#223.2503.250
Overall#253.4673.467
Theme#283.4503.450
Art#393.7503.750
Atmosphere#443.5503.550
Polish#602.9002.900

Ranked from 20 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

I liked that one! The "gun"-play isn't tremendously deep, but it is a cool take on schizophrenia, both the presence of incorporeal things haunting you and hunting you down, and the coping mechanism of willing a weapon and ammo into existence. The animation and SFX on shooting, reloading and generating ammo are great and I think there is actually a lot of potential to expand this with i.e. dual-wielding your hands or using similar copes. 

One thing I found a little too harsh was the fact, so many eyes sneak up from behind. I could easily clear my field of view, but they would get me from behind and since I am pretty sure ghostly eyes can't actually hurt me physically, they shouldn't spawn and act when I am not even looking their way. Maybe take some inspiration from SuperHot and make them only move when I move (or rather when they are in view), while spawning in view, so there's a constant pressure, but the player doesn't get overwhelmed as quickly. 


Other than that I liked it a lot, nice visuals, the posterization was effective, I only felt like those levels could benefit from a few more 3D assets. 

Submitted(+1)

This is the most unique "shooting" I have ever seen in games, the pew pew sounds, the reload counting and snapping, is just perfect

Submitted

Fully agree on that! It's technically a gimmick, but adds tremendous value as a framing device!

DeveloperSubmitted

Hey appreciate it, seems like people enjoyed my silly voices, was a lot of fun making this happy everyone's having having fun with it

Submitted

The “Snap ammo into existence” is genius. The sound effects (especially pew-pew) are super enjoyable. And I like the atmosphere as a whole. Really cool game! Got 2:57 and cornered with no ammo to spare

Submitted(+1)

Cool concept! And music really add a lot of tension. I figured out what to do on the second try and got 0:55

Submitted(+1)

I really enjoyed this game, I thought the hand gun was funny and the music was awesome. Having the music grow along the insanity meter was a great touch. The eyeball mechanics really had me spinning around looking for enemies and I thought the backrooms type of environment really lent itself to the concept.

DeveloperSubmitted(+1)

Appreciate the kind words, was my first "layered" audio project and was a lot of fun to create something gnarly :) 

Submitted

this is pretty fun.  interesting twist having the hallucinations/enemies distinct from the level. Some kind of indicator alerting me to the direction of eyes closing in behind me could be useful.

Submitted(+1)

Nice concept. I enjoyed it, but I wasn't crazy enough to snap ammo into existence sometimes. I had a good run at just under 2 minutes.  Would like to see it fleshed out sometimes. 

Developer

You're always crazy enough to snap ammo into existence, it's just a  process (hold right click). 

There is a win condition if you survive long enough tho, thanks for playing! o/

Submitted(+1)

It's very atmospheric when there are so many eyes. An interesting take on an aim trainer.

Submitted(+1)

Really cool concept and gameplay mechanic! The hand animations were spot on haha

Submitted(+2)

Funny gun, I’ll dream tonight about those eyes 😅 On Safari using the Fullscreen mode helped in running the game.

Submitted(+2)

Pew. pew. 1-2-3-4-5

Submitted(+1)

Started with a couple of eyes and become a real assaul!

Submitted(+2)

Amazing "gun" and I like enemies mechanic.

Submitted(+2)

The sound effects are banging!

We really enjoyed the finger guns and the way it reloads. A real cool environment and vibe!

Developer

Thankyou<3

Submitted

Great job

Developer(+1)

Thanks alot!