DO NOT DISTURB THE SANE MAN (Visual Novel / Adventure Game; Pilot)
DO NOT DISTURB THE SANE MAN
A surreal existential horror retelling of Alice in Wonderland in a late 90's setting.
Dedicated to the memory of David Lynch (1946-2025)
This interactive film / Visual Novel / Point and Click adventure game is available on donotdisturbthesaneman.com
The protagonist is searching for his missing daughter, "Alice", who was lost 2 days prior in Hotel Mirabilis (latin for Wonderland), A place (or time) where events loop, reality bends, death isn't real and all time exists at once.
This is a pilot episode with an intended full release of the game in 2025.
The Game Engine and the Visual Builder were created by Frederick Pelletier Goulet @frederickpelletiergoulet (Claude AI and Cursor were used as tools).
Almost all assets were created using or in collaboration with AI tools:
All animations were created with AnimateDiff in ComfyUI (fractal animations were made with Pytti)
Init images were either from Midjourney or created with Flux as well as a mix of LoRAs on Civitai and home-made LoRAs.
All voiceovers and SFX were created using ElevenLabs.
Most characters were inspired by Lewis Carroll.
Music was created with Suno.