The Interdimensional Smoke Box Adventure
The Interdimensional Smoke Box Adventure
Get ready to explore different dimensions on your quest to find the mysteriously vanished BBQ Joint "The Smoke Box". Solve puzzles and meet quirky characters in this point-and-click adventure using hand crafted pre-rendered backgrounds reminiscent of the 90s.
Small Content Warning: This game contains some (dithered and pre-rendered) blood.
How To Play
Look around by clicking, holding and moving your mouse.
Interact with the environment by pressing the left mouse button. If you have something in your inventory, you can inspect it by clicking on it with the right mouse button. To combine items with the world or with other items click on them with the left mouse button followed by a click on the object you want to combine them with.
About
This game was created as part of the "Robot Party Jam 2024", which provided us with the overall setting ("The Smoke Box", a cold chicken sandwich etc.) and two of the games characters - "Smoking Steve" and "Jambon" - if you want to know more about the general setting and background of the game you can find additional information on the jam page :)
The game was developed over the span of around four weeks with Godot 4.2.2. The backgrounds and characters were created and rendered with Blender 4.2. Except for the assets mentioned in the section "Third Party Assets" music, artworks and code were created by us specifically for this Game Jam.
Third Party Assets
- OVANI Sound - Various Sound Effects
- Dialogue Manager for Godot 4 - as dialogue system
- Color Dither 1.0 (Shader for Godot by Donitzo2) - as dithering shader
Credits
A game by Cardboard Giant Games
Design, 3D art and Music by Christoph Pressler
Design, 2D art and Programming by Daniel Martinek
Story by Christoph Pressler, Daniel Martinek, Veronika Pressler
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This was my favourite game in the Robot Party Jam! Really lovely work, beautiful pre-rendered style. I'm suddenly filled with an urge to play more games like this! What were your main influences? Any recommendations? Hope to see more stuff from you guys in the future!
Thanks! Very happy you enjoyed the experience! The main influences for this game were Myst and Riven. Both have, in my opinion, this unique, slightly eery, atmosphere. Obduction also scratches that itch for me, albeit with more modern graphics. I also enjoyed Syberia, which is not quite as eery, but also a great game. Another one that stuck with me, altough I just watched a Youtube video about it and never played it myself, is "The Book of Watermarks" for the PS1 - it also gives these vibes.
Other, more recent, games that I enjoyed, which may have some kind of similarity with this type of game are: The Thalos Principle 1+2 (much more modern graphics, but I also enjoyed the sense of mystery there, especially the first part), That Which Gave Chase (which also has an interesting retro look, altough not pre-rendered) and Scanner Sombre (with an interesting graphics style which creates an unique atmosphere). "The Witness" is also a great game in my opinion, which is kinda related to this type of game.
I also asked Daniel about this and he recommends "The Traitor's Gate" and "The X-Files: The Game" :)
Thanks so much recommendations, really kind of you guys. :)
I've never actually played Myst so maybe I should just go straight to the source! When it comes down to it it's that atmosphere you described that I'm really chasing. The Book of Watermarks looks like a perfect example of that too - I'd never come across that before, that's a real gem.
I've played Thalos and he Witness and they definitely have the same sort of feel to them, that kind of dreamlike world outside of space and time. Loved Scanner Sombre's lidar aesthetic but it scared me too much!
Definitely checking out That Which Gave Chase and The Traitor's Gate, they look great.
After I sent you that message I played an interesting game called Fatum Betula that definitely scratches the atmospheric itch…doesn't have the beautiful pre-rendered look that you guys used though.
Thanks again!
Yes, I definitely recommend checking out Myst and the follow-ups! Fatum Betula looks pretty cool, I have added it to my list of games to check out, looks very interesting :)
Cool game!!