Passport to Perfume – Developer perspective
Angel Inokon

A field research trip to a world famous perfumer is a dream come true for most women – for me as a female producer - it was an eye opener into the decadent word of luxurious perfumes and one which truly informs the game experience in the upcoming game title, “Passport to Perfume”.

Passport to Perfume is a PC/Mac game that offers players the chance to engage in an end to end perfumery experience where you play the role of Sophia, a young adventure-seeker, perfume maker and shop owner in the 1940’s. The game encompasses three game genres: time management, economic sim and hidden object as you manage a perfume shop, create scents, select from an elegant perfume bottle inventory and sell your creations to customers. Your adventures don’t stop there either - on weekends, you get to travel the world searching for rare ingredients and exotic perfume bottles.

In making the game, the PlayFirst team and our development partner, Mean Hamster wanted to truly reflect the art of perfume making in the game world by immersing the player in the experience from the concept stage and sourcing the ingredients right through to selling the final product and setting the right market price.

We ventured out of our offices to “YOSH Olfactory Sense”, the downtown San Francisco perfume studio of Yosh Han. Yosh is the founder and an extremely passionate perfumer who has been practicing her art for 15 years. Her perfumery crafts signature scents for customers around the world including celebrities such as Nick Hornby and Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket).

Yosh has a patented process of selecting scents, using various natural ingredients, some classic and several very unique and exotic scents of which we had never heard. Our research unearthed many facets of the art of perfume making that amazed us such as how scent can be matched to personalities and how talented Yosh was at predicting which scents we would steer towards based on our characteristics.

In our research of the perfume market, we also learned that the industry is now producing several new “bespoke” scents and tailored fragrances for a more demanding clientele. Perfumers are also now leaning towards scents that are made with perfume oil and natural botanicals instead of alcohol which is how master perfumes crafted their wares centuries ago. In Passport to Perfume, Sophia’s quest to uncover the formula for Marie Antoinette’s perfume also seeks to uncover the classic, natural ingredients that were so admired in the decadent days of the French bourgeoisie.

As a result of such an inspiring visit, we’ve also featured many common and rarely used botanical ingredients in Passport to Perfume that you can combine to make your own signature scents that you sell in your own perfumery. You can also travel to the geographical areas that produce these botanicals as part of your own field research trip!

Look out for more sneak peeks into Sophias’ world and the exciting features in Passport to Perfume as we uncover more in the lead up to the game release this month!

This will be a FUN High Score Challenge!
 Beginning July 21st and ending August 3rd, 2009.

You know the rules...
if you don't, please read prior Challenge Rules....
post your intent to play here
and post 'em if you got 'em.
High Scores that is! 

I'm in. Got some playGold, and I liked the First peek...

im in on this one.  I just had alot of problems getting into the diner dash challenge, that just isnt one of my favorite games to play .

London:
1 - 753            773
2 - 922            1017
3 - 1308          1378
4 - 1910          2072
5 - 1518          1749
6 - 2168          2492
7 - 2120          2443
8 - 2504          2633
9 - 2476          2628
10 - 2689        3103
11 - 2926        2898
12 - 2949        3238
13 - 3370        3571
14 - 3396        3491
15 - 3470        3560
16 - 4044        4000

Paris:
17 - 904          947
18 - 1099        1313
19 - 1677        1966
20 - 2738        3108
21 - 3139        3294
22 - 2946        3188
23 - 3859        3981
24 - 4545        4452
25 - 5245        4705
26 - 5972        5591
27 - 5396        5561
28 - 6589        7983
29 - 7032        8017
30 - 8394        9822
31 - 8216        9451
32 - 8433        9352

New York:
33 - 2285        2885
34 - 1734        2454
35 - 2779        3717
36 - 3500        4408
37 - 4461        4866
38 - 4573        6712
39 - 6730        10089
40 - 8707        11046
41 - 11005      10905
42 - 11444      13051
43 - 15083      15473
44 - 14890      16640
45 - 14133      16916
46 - 25096      26682
47 - 26040      25908
48 - 24769      27636

Total - 291, 936    323,174

That was fun. Missing three trophies. From the top clockwise, the second, fourth, and sixth. I know one must be upselling the quality. Does anyone know what the other two are?




-- Edited by jinxjinx on Friday 31st of July 2009 09:43:45 PM

-- Edited by jinxjinx on Friday 31st of July 2009 09:44:26 PM

-- Edited by jinxjinx on Friday 31st of July 2009 09:47:26 PM

-- Edited by jinxjinx on Saturday 1st of August 2009 06:28:56 PM

-- Edited by jinxjinx on Sunday 2nd of August 2009 03:51:18 PM

are we doing it level by level or just final score?

if the former, be warned, you can't see your level score after you've gone to the next level...

thanks Rj - didn't spot that :)

I haven't downloaded it yet but I'm in if I decide to buy it.

oh yuck you dont get to keep any of your upgrades when you replay you have to restart all over

high scores are there but no upgrades yuck and double yuck

I'll participate, I'll post my scores tomorrow when I have more time to play.

I'll post my scores soon - been moving house the last 2 weeks and barely had time to play...

(edited to say d'oh given that the challenge ends today, I guess this is one I won't complete... bum!)

-- Edited by Ariadni on Monday 3rd of August 2009 12:10:13 PM

OOHHH PRETTY!!

Congrats jinx!

WAY TO GO JINX!!!!

Real nice going, Jinx!!