This NEW I'm on Observation Duty Game is AWESOME! - Para Eyes

Welcome to PARA EYES! This is a brand new I'm on Observation Duty style game with many very clever mechanics! I can't wait for more content to be added! Let me know what you think! Much love and see you during the streams :D
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[@ohnoezitsjoez]

"Grandmas hard. Good luck." is one of the most threatening phrases I've ever heard.

[@ryokiritani4187]

Grandpa should've never said yes to butt stuff

[@d4n737]

G R A N D M A ' S H A R D

[@DkKobaADV]

graaaaaaaaaannny's house

[@Redsparx]

Kek

[@AKoeberl]

I think it’s a nice touch that you can hear occurrences in other rooms, like when the picture frame fell in the living room when he wasn’t on that camera.

[@trumpetsk9897]

I really like that you can buy an arachnophobia pack and have it added instead of spiders just being there in base. I have crippling arachnophobia and have on a few occasions ended up having a full blown panic attack over a spider in a video game that I wasn’t expecting.

[@photonwerewolf9740]

Lmao, Grandma's slow scoot behind the shower curtain had me in stitches xD what a great Obs Duty-like game!

[@katiekawaii]

27:15 Frankly, I think the original OD games got this part right. The sudden notification that there are too many anomalies when you think everything is quiet really raises the stakes in a satisfying way. The sanity bar removes the excitement of uncertainty that is so much fun in OG OD.

[@Unstoppable_Unicorn]

Maybe as you play more the harder difficulties of this game will allow you to play under those conditions?

[@soulbounddoll1826]

Yeah, now that I think about it that sudden warning was absolutely awesome really.

[@GeeNo_]

As I watched I was thinking the same thing. I like the ideas Insym proposed to make the sanity bar more difficult though, and I think the sanity bar will help newer players get over the initial hump of not knowing how well they're doing. The uncertainty helps though, it adds this element of "Am I missing a bunch of stuff or is the game just off to a slow start?". It also gave you some grace where you could go the whole game not finding one or two particularly tough anomalies but finding the rest would keep you afloat. Still the newer system puts a different spin on things and I think different mechanics are important in a game like this, perhaps remove it for the hardest difficulty with an old school warning but that's all I'd want from it

[@whisper4379]

Agreed.

[@toookiez]

CREEPY GRANDMA LURKING 19:20 MASSIVE CHAIR 24:04 CREEPY GRANDMA LURKING AGAIN 35:55 GRANDMA IN THE PAINTING 37:37 GRANDMA IN KITCHEN 38:47 GRANDMA IN LIVING ROOM 43:48 GRANDMA IN LIVING ROOM AGAIN 50:34 GRANDMA SURPRISES INSYM 52:00 GRANDMA IN BEDROOM 1:01:30 CREEPY GRANDMA LURKING AGAIN 1:03:43 GRANDMA IN BEDROOM AGAIN 1:12:20 SUMMONING CIRCLE 1:12:48 GRANDMA IN LIVING ROOM AGAIN 1:17:19 SUMMONING CIRCLE AGAIN 1:19:35

[@Miguelos1154]

Thanks ,but you didnt have to CAPS EVERYTHING. And also you missed some.

[@yoyobagg]

BRO CALM DOWN

[@FreeBoulders]

HEY THANKS MAN!

[@carolynvogan5217]

AAAA

[@deadective]

WHY ARE YOU YELLING

[@HelloSunbeam]

There's a lot of potential with the sound in this game! I love that we can hear lights flicking off, items falling, and Grandma whispering. Now, all that's missing is the occasional Sound Jumpscare because, like in Observation Duty, you're so concentrated on item movement that the sound goes completely without thought. And more items having that sound when they move/break/etc would really hone in on that I feel. Also, the Monkey turning its head to look at the camera would be hella cool and creepy, like how the bunnies in Phas do.

[@rosssnyder4490]

I would love to see a sci-fi version of I'm on observation duty. . Like spotting aliens, UFOs, crop circles...ETC.

[@prestonknaack]

Or a Sci Fi anomaly pack for this game :)

[@rosssnyder4490]

@@prestonknaack that would be cool. You could do so many themed packs too.

[@jamesrussels7766]

brb learning unity

[@rosssnyder4490]

@@jamesrussels7766 if you need any good ideas concept wise I am always willing to help.

[@Jirodyne]

Got to say, this is one I might be the first one I actually buy and play. I love the Difficulty aspect, each difficulty slowly adding in more rooms, and not just hand you 9 rooms and go "Have at it" like some of the other games. Plus with the Sanity Bar showing when you need to look for anomalies is also good. Maybe having an option to turn it off, but reward more points per anomaly if it's off. I also like the point system. That is one thing I can say for sure I love over the other games. The other games you played, just for the experience, but you can get that just watching you, Insym, Lets Play that game. But with Rewards, especially if there are multiple, with multiple kinds, maybe even skins for houses, such as turning Granny's house into a haunted house, or more child like house, or maybe unlocking room specific skins to change just that one room's layout, which could have different anomaly spawns, and even an option to randomize which skin is used when playing the map. That's the kinda stuff I would like to see. Tho the prices, and rewards, will need to be balanced and rebalanced so people are having fun, without it being a massive grind fest. This isn't an MMO, we don't need to be repeating a map 5 or 10 times just farm enough points to unlock stuff.

[@psyendacy]

Agreed, I'm on observations duty's big flaw is that there is no reward system so it gets stale very quick.

[@Thrythlind]

I also like how there's a distinct ghost haunting the first house, gives it a bit of a story and personality.

[@TehDalek]

Agreed, it is actually very interesting for each location to have it's own "intruders" And things like Emily's room for instance adds even more lore potential.

[@ChrisGamingNL333]

Funny moments 19:20 grandma in bathroom 35:55 grandma in bathroom 38:46 grandma outside 43:47 moving grandma 50:32 moving grandma 51:57 grandma in Emilys bedroom 1:01:29 grandma in bedroom 1:03:41 grandma in bathroom 1:12:00 insym finding fan part 1 1:12:15 grandma in bedroom 1:12:47 summoning circle 1:17:17 moving grandma 1:18:32 grandma outside 1:18:36 grandma in bathroom 1:22:36 grandma in bedroom 1:24:13 grandma outside 1:24:53 insym finding fan part 2 1:25:15 grandma in bathroom 1:29:19 moving grandma 1:34:00 grandma in Emilys bedroom 1:34:30 *arachnophobia mode* 1:35:33 insym finding fan part 3 1:39:48 moving grandma 1:43:12 *spider eggs* 1:44:40 grandma in Emilys bedroom 1:45:04 *bathroom spiders* 1:47:19 grandma in Emilys bedroom 1:48:10 moving grandma 1:49:50 insym finding fan part 4 1:51:24 grandma in bathroom 1:54:19 *spider eggs* 1:54:59 grandma outside 1:55:36 insym finding fan part 5 1:56:27 *!!!BIG SPIDER!!!* 1:57:36 grandma in bedroom 1:59:05 *bathroom spiders*

[@ChrisGamingNL333]

i guess i got a new job, putting funny moments in the comments of im on observation duty videos

[@MatthewDeJesus]

PagMan Timestamp Terry

[@areolata]

Even though I knew it was a crack in the wall; the garbage bag "smoke" automatically attracts my attention every single time. When I watched stream I was glad to hear that someone else thought it looked like smoke. I was getting annoyed by it and I really want to shift the wall texture so it's not lined up like that. It's funny how certain things always catch your eye.

[@HotAppleKai]

These things are called visual tangents! They're super interesting! They're one of the important things you study in art and composition!

[@MM-jf1me]

​@@HotAppleKaiThanks for the info -- I'll have to look up visual tangents.

[@local6335]

I think an eye tracker for these games would be cool

[@UntiltedName]

I love that this game doesn't have you clicking through some giant menu to report an anomaly. By putting the "report" feature directly into the environment you don't break immersion to go read a bunch of words in that pop-out menu.

[@AKoeberl]

This progression system feels so smooth

[@Pneuman1ac]

I love how chat is always doing the intro with Insym, it's so wholesome

[@TheMongral]

This seems like a legitimately interesting variation of Observation Duty. Gonna be interesting to see how it pans out when the developer gets more stuff into it. Personally speaking though, I don't mind the sanity mechanic, but I think it should probably be broken into something like 5 individual "bar chunks" (each worth 20% sanity) and the bar only updates visually when you lose a full chunk, that way you get four "strikes" before you run the risk of losing, while also being required to stay focused on the cameras instead of the sanity bar. This way it serves as a wakeup call to pay closer attention instead of a dead giveaway that something is going on.

[@Justini0]

Nah, the "strike mechanic" from OD 5 is why I skipped that one, I hated it... Fuessing bu room was an interesting trade-off though, but no redeemable "guesses" for a correct answer was downright brutal! I think clicking on locations is a nice added challenge, as I would "guess" a lot in OD. Granted, there was a longer wait time as punishment, and my issue was not being able to select the correct identifier to obvious anomalies, and that was frustrating at how many things it could be, and failing while "looking at" the obvious anomaly, LOL!

[@RANDOMPLANET]

Insym trying to tell on the game and make it harder... when hes only in Normal mode so far... Classic Insym haha. Too bad this isn't out for everyone.. this is an amazing addition to the genre.

[@Novius8]

48:45 “Grandma’s hard good luck!”🤨📸

[@Schnagelkott]

Plot twist: The player is actually the real ghost. Granma is trying to redecorate at home and take out the trash, but some pesky unseen entity keeps resetting every change she makes.

[@Quinlana83]

That was really fun! Very cool game. Thank you for playing, Insym!

[@ThomasVye]

I absolutely love the maps here! They are really nice looking! Also Grandma is great! XD

[@GlaciesYin]

19:21 that's ingenious! The anomalies being visible are not the only scary thing now~

[@DimmuDeer]

How about losing sanity when you are wildly clicking? Not only does it make sense since you are basically going insane irl, lol, but it would be a little less forgiving. On easy there would be no punishment at all, on harder difficulties there would be a window for a misclick every few seconds, just in case you truly miss what you were aiming for. A good guess also resets the timer.

[@johnwalpole7186]

On hard/insane mode if they did something with shadows like shifting them or shaping them as entities. That might be interesting

[@misskitiefantastico]

I feel like they missed a trick not calling the moving grandma ‘Grandma Malfunction’. Hahaha

[@f7oggy75]

i love how in this game a smaller rug than usual makes you go crazy

[@phytorjackpack5543]

lol that clock/timer in the top right going to '60 minutes' before quickly changing to the next hour xD

[@Astrella.Alhena]

The bathrooms with toilet paper on a roll should definitely unwind like a cat/kid played with it.

[@kosakukawajiri5007]

I have an idea for Cj and the other Phasmo devs, it would be easy to make a game called Truck Duty and play as the cowards who hide in the truck and let their comrades go in. All they'd need to do is use their maps, set up cams, make a mess, have creepy events, and it would be so fun. The Observation genre could be a goldmine. Since Phasmo got the train rolling for ghost hunting, Observation could pave the way for new games and devs.

[@LycanVikin]

I think it be better if you could send ghost hunters in with a emf or spirit box to get evidence, you watch the camera help them survive the night. Kinda like the new aliens games that's like five nights of fredys but a ghost game. Get that thrill of seeing a ghost coming for your team and getting them to hide or run. With ghosts that have different abilities to make your job harder. Knocking out cams. Radio flairs. Lighting. Finger prints. Cold temps Demons

[@Tamamo-no-Bae]

Holy crap this is actually really solid! Definitely something I'm gonna try to grab when it comes out! Fox be with you! ^^

[@BEEDRILL303]

Insym getting a magazine and a newspaper mixed up is great. Do spiders replace grandma popping up so it's just a huge spider ? They should deff add grandma crawling out of cabnets and stuff and a clown pack for Halloween and the clowns can be like clown toys to actual ppl dressed as clowns trying the break in, like a jack in the box toy can pop up in a room or a clown marionette can come out of the hole in the ceiling in the dinning room a clown can show up in the reflection of mirrors. Oh! one can slide out from under the beds too!

[@birchbarks550]

Woah i am EXITED for this to fully release :D One of the few observation dutie-esque games I am considering buying :D

[@FlyingShisno]

Lol I like the intro when loading a level. Grandmas HARD Good Luck!

[@user-qz6nk1le5n]

Maybe losing a little sanity from time to time to induce panic, also the disappearance of the sanity bar, or the frozen of it like anomalies

[@Skypater]

Congradulations!

[@carlhoward4273]

Apreciate you man that helps

[@sincitysinnermike]

If the dev is reading this, I would suggest the sanity bar change color when it is depleting to indicate an anomaly is present. If not for all difficulties, maybe the easier ones.

[@shawno8263]

Hey! Dev here, been looking three all thr comments and taking in all the feedback. Thank you!

[@Cyra.43]

@@shawno8263 Is there a chance the game will be out on phones as well?

[@shawno8263]

Yes, at some point im going to look at making a mobile version.

[@Cyra.43]

@@shawno8263 ty! Best of luck with your game, hopefully it will be a hit!

[@silveramaryllis]

I think one criticism I have about this game is that it actually looks *too* good in my opinion. I think it struggles a bit as-is atm to capture the eerie-ness of the original observation duty games. The house actually looks really cozy lmao. The model for grandma and the "ghost events" are both really cool, but it doesn't have the same impact as some of the anomalies in OD since it feels like so much tension just isn't there. This game has SOOO much potential and I'm so excited to see where it goes! 💙

[@NovaDragon]

Maybe the sanity meter only drops if there are 2+ anomaly's active, so people can do a "no sanity lost" run or like more than 1 anomaly but a 5 sec delay timer till it starts ticking down

[@VNocturn]

Maybe the sanity bar could be hidden until you hit certain thresholds like every 10% you lose (100 to 90 to 80 etc) where it'll appear on a screen for a short time.

[@lepigeondusud5533]

I love your channel :D

[@FlyingShisno]

This looks amazing. I hope some friendly competition will encourage Notovia.

[@tigababy89]

Keep up the good work

[@KKxam]

I feel like the sanity bar should have a hold down button to observe it.

[@racheljohnson7926]

I watched the whole video and couldn't stop noticing all the weird stuff "King_Ed93" said. Had me howling and no one even questioned him! "I have spiders in my belly" "Let them crawl into your mouth" "I will call him Willy because he gives me the willies." Cracked me up! xD

[@GoobyDucky1]

The cutting board was geenome soldier and it likes to Speeeeeene

[@Gibsonnnnn]

Love that pun title

[@datalore3841]

When I watch these videos I always wonder if there is someone watching with photographic memory thats just flipping out watching lmao

[@Schnagelkott]

I think as the surveillance guy, you would feel if your sanity is draining, so for immersion purposes it wouldn't make a lot of sense to hide the sanity drain. Instead of a sanity meter they could have something like an "integrity of reality" meter. Once it goes too low, reality starts to break down and flood the site with distortion anomalies until a portal opens for the elder gods or the site is lost to the netherworld, or something.

[@FlintenJones]

I love your channel!!! More indi games please!!!!!

[@christinehaver2]

Twitch plays observations duty. I'm on obsolete duty. Gold.

[@DragonSoul66]

I love how the Ouija Board's spelling 'help me'.

[@hanonondricek411]

Instead of a sanity meter, it should just be a heartbeat that fades in and speeds up. (With an option to make the border/screen pulse for hearing-impaired.)

[@gordonmorgan3131]

Absolutely losing it at insym and 98% of chat missing the bathroom ghost orbs for the whole game two games in a row, dying to em once and nearly again the second time

[@sashahensley9742]

That face to made said it all: Me and my big mouth 😱

[@lexodus8552]

we found Insym's weakness, stopping fans

[@redspill0738]

Your basically the guy looking for orbs in phasmophobia, i mean come on the mirror, the crucifix, Ouija board, sanity

[@Heebum88]

lol just started a game of isaac when you started talking about it XDD

[@literalcode]

Most people: Para eyes My Mexican ahh: Para eyès

[@Lucarioux]

I think the penalty should be much long scanning as if it’s trying to find the anomaly while if there is one it’s very short like it is right now because when it scans it easily detects the anomaly since it’s there.

[@RoxyTheRed]

Will there be more of this? Because I need more of this!!

[@tegmentum.official]

This game needs 👏🏻 music 👏🏻 to ramp up the fear. I think one way to get the player scared is to have there be too many anomalies in one volley, and then the game switches over to a challenge of diligence and endurance to beat their rapidly diminishing sanity due to overload. A challenge that can be beat, but punctuated by gradual, intensifying dissonant ambiance to punctuate how likely the player’s failure is if they don’t keep up

[@kinggamerkingkylep2227]

1:04:48 "Boobas makes an apearence at some point near this time in the garage bruh ahgjhdfjhg" moment

[@Yamez226]

I think your sanity should only start going down when there's 3 active anomalies, but it goes down a bit faster.

[@OtakuNJS]

Game on wish list already.

[@Aui_stormchaser]

Cool concept

[@zembagaming7841]

dude you upload so much!

[@aceress2789]

31:30 - Ouija Board Said "H E L P M E"

[@Silverlugia1256]

Oh lord having a dream where you could do anything these allowed me to set my future @.@

[@Boko346]

Looks like a good game for this point in its development. Would love to see more creepy noises. Like really go ham on some of the creepy noises, especially during the jump scares. I also wonder if there will be any instant lose scenarios in the future.

[@shawno8263]

Thanks! I plan on adding a bunch of noises in general , and tie more noises to anomalies.

[@muhammadraihan4981]

Anomaly was smart , hide behind curtain so you can't report him

[@ricardodasilva7382]

about the tourist prices, in brazil we say: pra gringo é mais caro

[@DKHZStudio]

we need a best of all Grandmas scenes ;)

[@Ilovefnaf192]

It would be cool if the awijiboard got bigger I think. and maybe the gramma wanted a big chair to be more cozy and I think they hate the rug that's why it disappears

[@mineofitsown]

I would make a very big room with lots of things in it but never allow anomalies to happen in it. Just to make you question your own sanity.

[@edalex3489]

I think ill be much cooler if sanity bar is replaced with camera effect. Maybe perhaps the more stuff happens, some black stuff will appear at the border of the camera. It grows more and more if you unable to find the anomaly. Maybe even grow faster if more anomaly active.

[@TehDalek]

While it sounds cool in theory, It'd make the game very difficult and annoying if things could get obscured by camera effects.

[@i.r.3016]

1:41:52 Yeah I've heard of that! I don't remember which country it was exactly, but I remember something about the currency being so useless they'd give it all to children to make paper kites.

[@i.r.3016]

@@nikolai_kury Sorry I genuinely don't remember 😭

[@BriBear5193]

My brother made this game I’m actually excited to see people play it and see how it is

[@TheSilverStrikeforce]

Can you ask him to add an intruder like Huge Man?

[@Twentydragon]

16:45 - Pfff, 5:60, lol. It'd be really funny if one of these games had the timer go all the way up to 5:99 before you could win. Also, I wonder if it would make more sense to replace "Sanity" with "Stability", with optional mechanics that could introduce more frequent anomalies as Stability drops. I do think there should be _some_ penalty for losing (it makes winning a reward!). But maybe you just lose half of the points you'd collected instead of all of them?

[@Tangent08]

The person in chat who said the Luigi board spelled "send nudes" broke me.

[@Korr_derg]

idk why but the sanity meter draining more and more with each difficulty just reminds me of fnaf 1 where the power meter drained faster as the nights went on so u had to be more and more careful with your power usage

[@shawno8263]

I considered adding a power generator for a different difficulty or something like it, where you can turn on and off lights + keep track of the generator levels

[@Korr_derg]

@@shawno8263 i think a cool thing you could add is a bottle of sanity pills as like a rare easter egg anomaly that could appear anywhere and refills 50% sanity when reported, of course also have it where that anomoly doesnt drain sanity

[@shawno8263]

@@Korr_derg yes! Sanity pills was another idea ive been playing with

[@Korr_derg]

@@shawno8263 i can even see that fitting with more references to insym cause i can easily see him thinking of phasmophobia when he sees the pill bottle and having it refill his sanity

[@sckeletonlord6551]

I feel like they should make like the 5th game, more gamemodes (the 3 lives one and og one) and add this point&click style with sanity but still get to play the ogs in other maps.

[@AnonymousUser2023]

It looks awesome! But if the sanity had some sort of percentage, would be a little better

[@angrycastiel]

I think that sanity should drop faster if you make mistakes

[@kiratheusagiisworkshop5266]

Really cool game! I think it should be easier to tell when sanity drops, especially on easy. Because it's really hard to tell when it drops.

[@crazywarriorscatfan9061]

Looks promising!

[@TehDalek]

Very interesting! This is a nice game. Suggestions: Getting an anomaly wrong should take away an anomaly point as a penalty. While causing a sanity drop or increasing anomalies would make sense as penalties, I think it would be most effective and fair to take away anomaly points. Make "Normal" default. Easy is nice for trying out new maps or as a new player, but normal being, well normal, makes sense. You'd also need to of course update it to say easy gives 0.5x, hard gives 1.5x, and insane gives 2x (edit): Steam workshop! It'd be cool if players could add their own anomaly packs via steam workshop What I like: Clicking the item to report it is so intuitive! Also quick and non-obstructive. It's neat that it tells you what item you're reporting too. Difficulty settings are cool, earning rewards for correctly reporting is neat. I really like how you can see the anomalies occur and repair. The black and white being an option is a wise choice. Neat that it tells you when you complete a map what anomalies you missed and gives clear info on how many anomalies you've found this map and total. What I don't like: Sanity meter. While it is nice that it informs you of active anomalies and provides a clear metric of how close you are to failing, I think it will inevitably cause unfair losses. Like the fact that it goes down, but never back up means you may know there is an anomaly and report it, but you still lose cause you ran out of sanity. I guess it may not be that big an issue given it doesn't begin going down until a bit after the anomaly appears, but this could be a real problem where there are too many anomalies appearing and not enough sanity to go around, specially on higher difficulties. I do agree that it may be best if it was also reworked to be a sanity % that just goes down every so often instead of a bar that goes down visibly when an anomaly is left too long. Like you said, it would still decrease at the same rate, but you'd see it go from 100% to 95% to 90%.

[@TehDalek]

Still have a ways to go in the video yet, but these are my impressions after the first half hour. Will likely have more comments later on.

[@TehDalek]

I think not getting anomaly points when you fail the map is a good thing. Prevents cheap farming. What would be cool (if possible) is if this game to have a steam workshop where people could contribute fan anomaly packs. It would really keep the game alive and interesting.

[@shawno8263]

Hey! Thanks for the feedback. Im the dev :) slowly been reading and taking in all the feedback :)

[@eight10aaronn]

I started watching and somehow I skipped ahead 2 hours on accident and it ended and I was like "what 😃"

[@gentdab3817]

I think it would be cool if the sanity bar got less reliable or was missing in harder versions of the game, like in phasmo how some of the screens in the van are broken on Nightmare mode

[@YourPalKindred]

"Grandmas hard. Good luck"

[@Scatterbop]

Chat is playing the game in this one! ;)

[@MarkStClair-ky5xp]

@insym there's a pattern to the grandma that moves alot,hope it's helpful the next time u play

[@CyntasticGaming]

The clock counting the 60 is a super secret special anomaly....you weren't supposed the find it... (whips out neuralizer) please look over here sir. :)

[@britronizzo9750]

Who ever in chat said ghost balls had me laughing for 10 minutes. Yes I’m an adult

[@Scufix311]

It still needs a lot more content, but the framework seems to be really solid! It will likely be a really good game in 1 or 2 years.

[@crazymus_pride]

It has potential. And believe me point and click games are not easy to make

[@needham831]

Hey Sym. You should have a play on Project Nightmares Case 36:Henrietta Kedward. It's just the kind of game you will love. 😉

[@jessica94psu]

He already played some of it but wasn’t really a fan so it never came to KZbin.

[@drakeequinox5133]

Its like im watching dora the explorer but in horror and realistic hahaha