Thread: Dreaming artwork, music and media

Sadly I think the technology, time and cost restrictions placed on them stop most developers making really free or dream-like games

Originally Posted by Vampireboy

Sadly I think the technology, time and cost restrictions placed on them stop most developers making really free or dream-like games

I'ts really not possible. It would take way too much work doing it all with scripts and using a procedurally generated world would be either to wacky or too rigid. I would love to develop a proper dream game, if I ever get good enough at scripting I might be able to develop some randomly generated world based on what the computer learns from all kinds of things on your computer etc

Perhaps in the future then? A long, long, long, long ....

I find that the album Trespassing by Adam Lambert is a great album to listen to for dream inspiration, both in terms of lyrics AND music. A lot of the sounds you can hear on that album seems to take me to outer space, or some futuristic world. The same could also be said for the album For Your Entertainment as well.

The music that really inspires me is any soundtrack music, especially the oblivion soundtrack. It's by far some of the best tracks I've ever heard and they make me feel like I'm in a completely different land, no matter where I listen them.

I think game soundtracks are great for that because they're specifically designed to transport you to and immerse you in this world the developers have created. I'd recommend the soundtracks for Botanicula and Machinarium, Amanita Design did a fantastic job with those

I agree totally with soundtracks.. I collect them, from films/game/series and a lot of unknown obscure music.. I have around 5000 soundtracks and 1TB of music and I can pick anyone and make some unique dreamscapes or ideas appear. One of my personal favourites for big epic scenes is listening to trailer music... Music by 'Two Steps From Hell' is fantastic. If you haven't heard, youtube it and let me know what you see

It's amazing the way how one can talk with melodies. Perhaps I will go a little bit off-topic, but I really love the background music from those old cartoons about a cat chasing a mouse, it's incredible how you can know what's happening just by hearing the background music. And it used to be just a single piano played.

Originally Posted by MoltenMurw

I agree totally with soundtracks.. I collect them, from films/game/series and a lot of unknown obscure music.. I have around 5000 soundtracks and 1TB of music and I can pick anyone and make some unique dreamscapes or ideas appear. One of my personal favourites for big epic scenes is listening to trailer music... Music by 'Two Steps From Hell' is fantastic. If you haven't heard, youtube it and let me know what you see

I totally know what you mean man, the likes of audiomachine, two steps from hell etc etc. It doesn't stop there either, the likes of jeremy soule and hanz zimmer just keep pumping out great tunes too. I really like oriental soundtracks because they are usually really simple, most trailer music is really loud and epic and it's quite hard to visualize doing something mundane to it. Unlike medieval or chinese traditional music.

My favourite Lucid dreaming inspiration music (yes it's from animatrix):

Have to agree especially there with Hans Zimmer, probably a biased opinion but the Inception OST is fairly phenomenal if a bit repetitive

Yeah I know, trailer music is amazing but It tend to convey certain thoughts of epic proportions which is great when you're in that mood, and then the oriental and medieval is amazing for something totally different and enchanting..

I think Hans-Zimmer is great, I also like James Horner, but If you haven't heard John Debney's 'Lair' soundtrack, you MUST listen to that, the main theme and "Blood River" track are truly grandiose.

I have always loved Jeremy Soule since playing morrowind, he never fails to amaze.
Michael Hoenig does some amazing tracks in Baldur's Gate, one of my favourite games and soundtracks.

For all the most beautiful medieval soundtracks I go for

Baldurs gate series
Icewind dale series
Neverwinter nights series
Guildwars series (Jeremy Soule)
Stronghold 1 (Amazing, one of the best true medieval scores I've come across)
Might and magic series, including Heroes of might and magic series.

I could go on and on..

Oh, another beautiful soundtrack is 'Ico' and 'Shadow of the Colossus'

I think everyone needs to listen to these soundtracks just mentioned!
And can't forget Diablo 1/2 and Warcraft 2/3...


Oh and for oriental

The Last Emperor
Jade Empire
some Soul Calibur tracks
Onimusha, some
Okami, excellent
Kung fu hustle (is very beautiful) - which reminds me, everyone should watch this clip, it's such a brilliant idea for a musical weapon!!

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YouTube ... (you know the rest, can't post links because I'm new here) /watch?v=_IjA8U9MCL4
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Everyone watch it if you haven't already!

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Box77,
Yeah those Honky-tonk pianos are great! (I hope I'm thinking of the right thing lol)

Game:

Yume Nikki
Info:
Yume Nikki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yume Nikki Wiki (Download link found here).

Yume 2kki (fan-made sequel)
Info:
Yume 2kki Wiki (Download link found here).

You can't get much more "dream media" than the above two.

Stronghold, Guildwars, Neverwinter, Might and Magic, Okami, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus all stunning soundtracks