Hey sandman! I happen to be a games programmer, which should be good for the team. I'm willing to take part in this, because I have always wanted to make a decent 3D game, related to lucid dreaming. I have some ideas too.
My ideas:
- When you load up the game, there will be a nice background with soothing breathing noises coming from somewhere. There will be the usual Start/Load, New, Options, ect...
- When you enter the game by pressing new, a character creation system will load up, giving you a variety of male/female options.
- After making the character, you will see a cut scene of this character slowly drifting off in his/her bed. (maybe a loading screen?)
- When you enter a dreamscape, which is randomly generated (similar to minecraft, but not all blocky). We can decide on the different terrains/environment objects that will occur randomly.
- There will also be a huge range of enemies that randomly occur with random colors and weapons. For example: a green rabbit with a gun appears in a yellow cloud place at one point, then a blue dog appears with a sword in an ocean village.
- The player could be able to find random weapons and armor lying around the dreamscapes. (The whole randomness helps create a dream feeling, where every time you enter it's something unique and different to explore.
- There will be a gradually decreasing bar on the screens somewhere. This wil be the lucidity bar, which is basically a time limit to each dream. You may increase this time by finding reality orbs located randomly around the dreamscape. Each orb would increase the time available by around 30 seconds. When you collect a reality orb, you perform a reality check of your choice. When the time completely depletes, the player will wake up and you can buy certain things.
-When killing an enemy, you will acquire an item called a control orb. This item lets you unlock powers in a menu that appears when you wake up. You can 'buy' powers like fireball, ice blast, ect...
- Finding items called ability orbs will let you unlock actions like flying and fast running. They will be available in the same menu as the powers.
That's about it for now, but when I have more ideas, I will post :). Thanks for reading and i hope you like these ideas.
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More ideas will be posted here.
-Upon killing an enemy you will get XP and level up to make your player have more health, dream power (basically mana/magic points)
-Dream power will be consumed when an ability or power is used.
-The player will have an option to wake themselves up if they want too. This is similar to 'quit game' or 'exit to menu'.
- There will be an option to close the game when awake.