Dead Herring VR
Dead Herring is a VR-Experience in which you are a detective, solving a murder case. You can analyse and combine hints by zooming into the microscopic level using a special tool.
The game follows the idea of using an affective gaming approach as a possibility to develop new settings with chemical contents for learning chemistry at school or at university.
It was developed by students from the Animation department at the University of Art and Design in Kassel in cooperation with the Chemistry department of the University of Kassel.
Idea and supervision:
Dennis Stein-Schomburg, Mareike Frevert
Concept:
Dennis Stein-Schomburg, Mareike Frevert, Victoria Kudlek, Leon Böhm,
Áron Farkas, Stefan Kreller, Helena Hegele, Luna Hirt, Theresa Lucas,
Lara Hoffmeister, David Schütze, Sören Senkök, Paula Berger, Jan Reuter
Chemistry experts:
Victoria Kudlek, Leon Böhm, Mareike Frevert
Production:
Jan Reuter, Dennis Stein-Schomburg
Programming:
Stefan Kreller
Sounddesign:
Christian Wittmoser, David Schütze
3D-modelling:
Áron Farkas, Stefan Kreller, Helena Hegele, Luna Hirt, Theresa Lucas,
Lara Hoffmeister, David Schütze, Sören Senkök, Paula Berger, Jan Reuter
Animation:
Áron Farkas, Helena Hegele, Stefan Kreller
Interface-design and -animation:
Paula Berger
Interface-audio and text:
David Schütze, Leon Böhm
Actor "Benjamin Herring":
Niels Walter
Voice "ex-girlfriend":
Hannah Schrem
Voice "bad guy":
Silas Tranter
Actress:
Eva Keller
Supervision – videoshoot
Christoph Neugebauer, Christian Wittmoser
Characterdesign:
Jan Reuter
Script:
Jan Reuter, Helena Hegele
Casting:
Luna Hirt, Theresa Lucas
Make-Up:
Paula Berger
Director:
Jan Reuter
Camera:
Sören Senkök
Sound:
Luna Hirt, Theresa Lucas, Christian Wittmoser
Light:
Áron Farkas, Stefan Kreller
Teleprompter:
Paula Berger
Script /Continuity:
Stefan Kreller, Christoph Neugebauer
Post-production:
Paula Berger, Luna Hirt, Theresa Lucas, Sören Senkök, Stefan Kreller
Game Discussion
Steam User 2
It's free, it's definitely well made and also fun to play this (very) short but original and interesting little game. I really like the apartment which -I think- is created with the help of photogrammetry. The goal of the game is finding out what happened here, mainly by looking around trying to find relevant objects/clues which you then "scan" and the findings are stored automatically in a "file". Short experience for everyone who's looking for something different than the usual (zombie) shooting.
Steam User 2
This is a curious experience. The description says that you will be solving a murder case but that isn't really true. What you will be doing to hunting around a room trying to find all of the hot spots (like a VR version of an early point'n'click adventure) and then, at some arbitrary point (you don't need to find all the hot spots), you can trigger a long audio log explaining exactly what happened. The game doesn't really care how much you try to solve the case and if you do try to solve it then it doesn't give you any mechanism for checking or rewarding you for getting it right. It's a shame, but still worth a look for the detailed room environment.
Steam User 0
Short but fun experience. It would've been easier to get around the room and search using controller turning, but I managed without it. For free it's definitely worth trying out.
Steam User 0
Liked this. Would like to see more like it.
Not keen on the "hidden object" formula though. Far better to highlight clues and let us deduce what happened from them. The fun is in deduction, not in searching every nook and cranny for a vibrating controller.
Steam User 0
Neat idea, could definitely use expanding but a real solid idea for a VR game.
Steam User 2
Dead Herring VR is a free VR game where you find hidden clues in a room. It worked on my HTC Vive and Index system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok, was understandable. Has a tutorial. It is a short game, if you give up easy. This game was made by a college coding team. Has a dark and gory story. Has teleport for VR movement mode. Does not need the recommended 3m x 3m play space, since it has teleport. There is no interactive parts. You have to bend down some to scan everything you see. Has voiceovers in English from German people.
Try this short game.
Steam User 2
Before I played Dead Herring VR, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good