Sanity of Morris — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
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| Sanity of Morris is OUT NOW! | 2021-03-23 | Sanity of Morris is out NOW with a special launch discount we'll keep running for a week. Today we'll do developer-commentary stream at Steam to celebrate the launch. We invite you all to come and watch, it's on the storepage! About Sanity of Morris Sanity of Morris is a adventure game with a psychological horror twist. Using your flashlight reveals the vital clues you need, but risks you being seen. The game combines elements of stealth games with detective-adventure and psychological horror for a gripping story. Discover the truth! Could aliens be real? Game Features: • Unnatural events are taking place in small-town Greenlake. • A bloodcur |
| Sanity of Morris - Launch in three weeks - Giveaways and more special events | 2021-03-04 | Sanity of Morris will launch Tuesday three weeks from now, on the 23rd of march. We’re already seeing awesome reaction from streamers and YouTubers with sneak-peek footage, delving into Sanity of Morris, theorizing, detectiving and enjoying the thrilling story. This is how the launch day will look like: There will be a developer commentary stream RIGHT HERE on Steam. We’ll play through parts of the game, and give insight on how Sanity of Morris was designed. 16:00 GMT / 09:00 PDT is a great time to tune in, when the game goes live. But we’ll let the stream run for a while, so you can check in when you’re awake and/or not at work/school. 😉 Ou |
| DevDesign Blog: New Artwork | 2020-11-06 | Stay hidden, find your father. So how are you supposed to find your father? Sanity of Morris has a unique gameplay element where your flashlight reveals hidden messages left by your father, that has mysteriously gone missing. In the game, footprints, secret messages and hints light up when you shine your flashlight over them. But be careful, because your enemies are all around you, and if they spot either you or you waving your flashlight around, they’ll find and kill you. This gives Sanity of Morris it’s ]unique balancing between wanting to find clues, evidence and leads, while risking your life. We’ve been working on a new piece of hand-pai |
| DevDesign Blog: Award Winning Voice Actors & Script | 2020-09-18 | Stay hidden, find your father. Cinematic gaming With major gameplay falling in place, puzzle designs being tested and levels that start to look spooky, the time has come for us to finish writing the script. Alterego Games LOVES to work with voice actors. We did it for True tales of Bloodstreet 13, we did it for Woven, we're doing it for Sanity of Morris and will probably always invest the extra time and effort to get voice actors on the team. It's why we were extra happy when Sanity of Morris was chosen to be highlighted by the Imagine Film festival, for it's narrative and cinematic quality. Background story The background story of the game w |
| DevDesign Blog: World Dressing | 2020-09-11 | Stay hidden, find your father. World dressing; making designed-yet-empty levels look good. This is where the talents of our Lord Art Director come into play (yes, that is his behind the scenes title). One of our founder, game-dev, and main worlddresser; Vincent da Silva, has been spending looooooots of his time making the world look pretty scary, pretty well. Object Design In the past few months our 3D team has been working hard at creating the 3D assets of the world. Guns, flashlights, guys with mask, chairs, skulls, you name it. As a small team, we don't have unlimited time or resources to do this, so we have to think smartly with what we c |
| DevDesign Blog: Gamedesign | 2020-09-04 | So, you have to stay hidden, but how, and why? Well, for the why you'll have to play the game, but rest assured, the game will give you ample reason not to be seen.. Staying Hidden Early on in the development of Sanity of Morris, we said we wanted to do conflict-avoidance as a game mechanic. Hiding behind objects, with enemies patrolling around actively searching for movement and visual confirmation. We gave the baddies a gun. We gave the player a flashlight. And there is where things got interesting. See it's easy ducking into an airduct (you'll be doing that) hiding behind a desk (that too) or corpses of the ones who have gone before you (j |
| DevDesign Blog: Controller support & Y-Axis | 2020-08-28 | Stay hidden, find your father. Controller Support For our developers, this week has been all about drinking Coffee and creating Controller support . While the artdepartment is making some pretty cool promotional art, our coders are sweating to make sure Sanity of Morris plays as awesomely with a controller as it does with mouse and keyboard. It's actually a lot of work. Not only coding the input, making sure all (or atleast most) devices are recocnized but also making sure all tutorials are correct across different platforms. We did a lot of this stuff for Woven aswell, but in the end it often still boils down to coding a lot of things four t |
| DevDesign Blog: From level to level | 2020-08-21 | DevDesign Blog: From level to level Stay hidden, find your father. This week we've been working on stitching the levels of Sanity of Morris together. (Pardon the knitting metaphore, old habbits...) Sanity of Morris is a game aiming to give you several nights of thilling terror and intriguing plot developments. We're planning three seperate levels each with their own game mechanics, style, flavour perspective of the story. Bridging worlds. As you might see in our screenshots, these area's have very distinct flavours. We knew from the very start of gamedesign that we wanted to to this, make the three levels and story told within, very distinct |
| DevDesign Blog: Collectibles & Achievements | 2020-08-14 | "Stay hidden, find your father." Right. So we're hiding, and finding our father. That makes sense. What do we do in the meantime? Well.... We get scared and pick up a bunch of stuff! We already spoke about Collectibles in our blog about the Journal feature. But one might ask 'is this stuff just for the achievement-buffs' ? No! (and yes!). We'll elaborate. Achievements First off. Yes! Of course there will be achievements in the game. And seeing as how we're hiding all our special files, unique pictures and audio tapes throughout the level at the WORST find-able locations, of course we'll reward you with achievements for having found them all. |
| DevDesign Blog: AI and Hiding | 2020-08-07 | Stay Hidden, find your father. About staying hidden. In Sanity of Morris, being chased by bad-guys with guns is one of the first-minute plot-twists this game has to offer. There are people in Greenlake that don't want you around, and all you carry around is your journal and a flashlight. Life is like a box of chocolates and you have to run! This week we've been working hard on the AI of the bad-guys. That's right, you won't just encounter these guys in the cinematics, but they'll be actively looking for you in the game as well. You don't have anything to fight them so staying hidden is important. Three elements of the AI we've been working on |
| DevDesign Blog: Journal | 2020-07-28 | Stay hidden, find your father. About finding your father. One of the tools we'll give the player while searching for hidden clues and solving puzzles, is the journal. Early on in playtesting we decided we wanted a journal that would help the player organise information. The journal has two functions. Guidance– Johnathan keeps you on track The first function is to help you along. Each time you find a piece of the puzzle, or an object you can interact with, Johnathan will write a note of it in his journal. This helps you keep track of all the different puzzles you've come in contact with, what it is John is looking for, and sometimes even holds |
| Quick Pitch | 2020-06-16 | Hi there, this is Dominic from Alterego Games. Sanity of Morris is our second big multi-platform entertainment game release. As a company we've learned a lot from releasing our first game Woven on PC, Mac, Linux, Playstation 4, Xbox One and the Nintendo Switch. Now we're getting ready to finish developing "Sanity of Morris". Sanity of Morris is a First-person Psychological Horror game where you play as John Morris, son of Hank Morris who has gone missing. Can you find your inner detective and figure our what has happened? Want to know more? Join us on our discord: https://discord.gg/TwkMyyY Cheers! Dominic Lead Developer and Producer for Sani |
| Steam Games Festival: AMA chat with the Developers behind "Sanity of Morris" | 2020-06-15 | The whole Alterego Games team is active on their Discord all day long, only when they are asleep or scared to death (yes our game is that creepy to develop on) is when they can't answer you! Join us on discord: https://discord.gg/TwkMyyY |
| Steam Games Festival: Meet the Devs behind "Sanity of Morris" Live Stream Event | 2020-06-08 | Do you want to meet the Alterego Games development team? Now you can! Join us on our Discord channel and ask us that one (or more!) burning question you have about game development. Or perhaps you want to know more about the psychological horror adventure game Sanity or Morris? This is your chance! Jump in on our Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/TwkMyyY |