jakeonaut
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3 years ago ABOVE EVERYTHING:: A feeling:: -"The yearning feeling of transitiveness. I want to be somewhere new and lost and confused and fantastical so I may seek purpose and knowledge and peace. In yearning for this I am trying to escape my current loneliness and lostness and confusion in a world that I rationalize is insincere." -Fantasy is the abstraction of the emotional and situational state we find ourselves in, decorated with imaginative chimeras of the tangible details of reality mixed loosely by the mind.
"The mind game is a relationship between the child and the computer. Together they create stories. The stories are true, in the sense that they reflect the reality of the child's life."
- Dream game: platformer game structure. Each area you take on a different forme and there are different rules to the world/different palettes/ambience/soundtrack.
- Shining doors are the gateways between worlds. Teleporter stones can be activated in each world for quick access between them.
- Collect a crystal cube from each of the worlds to unlock the end of the world.
It's free roaming and if the immediate paths you've taken lead to the same areas, but new ones/expired ones lead to new areas. The various areas have various challenges to be beaten that lead to new areas/forms
Your actions have effects on the world and leave traces of remembrance. Make it haunting and creepy like japandreamgame, but never make it feel like there isn't something to do or learn, or somewhere to go (there was too much walking and not enough puzzles/combat puzzles in dreamgame), or things to play with/react to you...
- Make the dream game assess your personality, your insecurities, through the gameplay, and let you overcome them??? Dive deep into the 16
- Characters??? Or vague dreamlike themes of characters???
- "Will you be my friend?"
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- Survival of the Fittest Food Chain:: -Predators and Prey:: defeat and eat something to become it???
What drives you?
Who are the NPCs ? Who is the player character ? what is the goal of the game, how does she feel, what is the mission?