Good way of representing the effects of weed in video games? - General

Is there even one? I can't really think of anything besides smokey overlays, but that doesn't properly do it, anyone have any ideas? It's been bugging me.

make the guy think about random shit that you're looking at.

Make his health slowly decrease unless he eats.

I thought of a hunger bar, but then I thought, is smoking virtual weed and eating virtual munchies fun? What else could be added to such a game that would make it both fun and about the illegal use of the drug we all love?

You have to fight the police if they catch you. Knock em' down, steal a gun, etc.

char is slower, wanders towards beds and couches etc

make him go on a mission to steal munchies from a liquor store but the liquor store catches him and it was run by terrorists so now you're a high guy fighting terrorists and if you win you get a award from the president. [editline]04:12AM[/editline] [QUOTE=billyman;19418308]char is slower, wanders towards beds and couches etc[/QUOTE] loses items in couches.

[QUOTE=Luke510;19418329]make him go on a mission to steal munchies from a liquor store but the liquor store catches him and it was run by terrorists so now you're a high guy fighting terrorists and if you win you get a award from the president. [editline]04:12AM[/editline] loses items in couches.[/QUOTE] Not if they have the melting into couches kind of weed! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f_PLXw6JdE[/media]

[QUOTE=Luke510;19418329]make him go on a mission to steal munchies from a liquor store but the liquor store catches him and it was run by terrorists so now you're a high guy fighting terrorists and if you win you get a award from the president. [editline]04:12AM[/editline] loses items in couches.[/QUOTE] "You just lost your Death Sword of Eternal Hellish Painbringing in the couch. You should really stop smoking so much pot..."

Let him go on some crazy adventure and at the end make it all turn out that the adventure was just one of his high thoughts that he dreamt about when he fell asleep on the couch.

[QUOTE=SomeRandomGuy18;19418290]You have to fight the police if they catch you. Knock em' down, steal a gun, etc.[/QUOTE] Yeah, like you can fight when you're baked.

[QUOTE=leet;19420224]Yeah, like you can fight when you're baked.[/QUOTE] That should be a TV show. Watch two high as fuck guys try to beat each other up. Would be hilarious.

[QUOTE=SomeRandomGuy18;19420302]That should be a TV show. Watch two high as fuck guys try to beat each other up. Would be hilarious.[/QUOTE] It'd only be funny if you watched it high... Watching two high people fight is pretty retarded when you aren't high as well.

[QUOTE=CuriousFper;19420337]It'd only be funny if you watched it high... Watching two high people fight is pretty retarded when you aren't high as well.[/QUOTE] That was the point. Most TV is stupid as fuck when you're sober. TV = made for drugs.

The overlay should have a slight increase in contrast with 5% extra red. If you get too interested in a side quest, the current story quest may completely disappear off the list until it randomly pops into your mind later on.

You need to be able to green-out and cross-fade too.

make a sort of slightly grainy textured overlay.

If you stare at one thing for a while, everything around that should start to blur out and blend to one colour while whatever you're looking at remains in focus.

When music comes on while the player is high. Put noticeably more bass and treble in it and maybe some echoes. With visual make it a tad bit more cartoonish and sharper. Have some random pictures with opacity of 15% to 20% playing in the background. Thats all I've got.

Maybe a cardboard cutout type visual aspect. Some blur/hdr type effect. Heals you. I think it depends on the game a lot.

personally when i'm high, everything seems sharper and i get a sort of tunnel vision effect where the outlines of my vision are darker/blurred oh and bloom so i'd use that as visual effects, no idea what you could do as gameplay effects that wouldn't take away from the fun

A tractor beam effect towards the nearest fastfood establishment, or refrigerator.

[QUOTE=actionhank;19431135]A tractor beam effect towards the nearest fastfood establishment, or refrigerator.[/QUOTE] I did not know that.

best thread ever

You could have the option to grow your own plant and sell instead of getting a job and buying.... it could be a sorta RPG

[QUOTE=Luke510;19418329]make him go on a mission to steal munchies from a liquor store but the liquor store catches him and it was run by terrorists so now you're a high guy fighting terrorists and if you win you get a award from the president.[/QUOTE] I just noticed this, but this sounds pretty similar to the first day on Postal 2.

Make a Quest in "Quest menu", with reward points or something, Quest being - eat, sleep, etc... at end, reward points disappears. There have to be simulator for hallucinogens ^^.

[QUOTE=jonashappy;19440723]I just noticed this, but this sounds pretty similar to the first day on Postal 2.[/QUOTE] Thats a fucking great game I love taking cat nip on it, also pissing on things/people.

I haven't played it for ages, I used to love running around taking people's heads off with the shovel :smile:

I'm gonna reinstall it, I never played it high but I'm gonna try I bet its great. Also going to the zoo and shooting it up is also great.