Ornare Oculos
A downloadable game
Solve a murder in an old shotgun shack using visions from a ghost!
Intro
Ornare Oculos Team:
We are in need of your firm's unique skillset once more. We've had...unusual activity at the old shotgun shack on the edge of town. We've sent in other units, but they turned back as soon as things started getting active in there. The ghost is leaving some sort of cards out. They seem to be trying to give clues about their death, but all our efforts have ended in losses.
We need you to go in and figure out why this ghost is so volatile. Use your visions to solve this case. Go room-by-room through the shotgun shack and use your visions to figure out what the ghost is trying to tell you. The shack is full of clues. But be careful: when you go into a vision time gets wonky. But, guessing the wrong thing will bring you a lot closer to midnight. Trust me...you don't want to get to midnight. I know we've sold this job well, but as always, there's good money in it if you can stop the haunting.
Good luck detective - or whatever you consider your job description...
Guide
Room 2 has 4 visions about how the ghost died.
Room 3 has 4 visions about the ghost's unfinished business.
Once you clear a room, there's no need to go back. If you clear all 3 rooms before time runs out - you win!
Credits
Designed and built by DustyRedBird and ItsMrSam.
Tested by friends on the DustyRedBird discord server.
Built within 72 hours for the MiniJam 117 Game Jam!
Check out DustyRedBird's game dev YouTube Channel!
Assets Used
Anything not listed below was made by DustyRedBird and ItsMrSam.
Art for Visions and Newspapers generated by Stable Diffusion AI.
Assorted Rocks, Trees, and Shrubs from Unity Asset Store:
- Manufactura K4
- shui861wy
- PolyFix
- Pixel Games
3D Textures from:
- 3dtextures.me
Skybox from Unity Asset Store:
- Avinox
A few SFXs mixed from files from:
- freesound.org
Voice lines generated using xVASynth v2
Download
Install instructions
Download the .zip file. Extract it and open the .exe file to run the game.
Comments
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Comments below clip:
I thought I knew what I was doing, but fvcked up anyway.
Thanks for making such an interesting game.
Well done and kudos to all involved!
I loved the whole concept and at first I was confused but the game did a good job explaining what to do, great job!
It's a spooky little game, that I can fully recommend to check out for yourself, the answers and visions are randomly generated/picked each run which gives it quite a bit of replayability. I did question myself if the visions were AI generated, after taking a look at the assets before writing this comment I know they are, which would explain their unsettling, dreadful appearance. I wish you the best of luck for the jam and hope you'll create more games in the future.
love it thank you
Thank you so much for playing and making the video! It's great to see how someone else plays the game and interprets our clues :-)
Since we had the time crunch, we didn't include as much of a tutorial or guide. We added some more explanation on the itch.io page so hopefully it's easier for folks to get the mechanics (even if the visions themselves are very hard to guess depending on which you get).