Thread: Lucid Dream Game Idea

I was thinking about the idea board. There should be a place where everyone can view all the ideas, but reposting to include additions is not very efficient.

Do you think we should have a web page outside of DV? Is there a better way serve up the data ON DV? Could we use Google Docs? Any other ideas?

Then, if I, or someone else, could be a clearing house for ideas, I would post all ideas without regard to personal preference, and then field opinions or rankings, yay's and nay's, or whatever.

Along the same lines, every other issue regarding adding roles will end up clogging this thread up. I think we should keep posting here, but we shouldn't have to look for certain posts in the thread. Don't you think that will get to be a...well, you know.

Originally Posted by Rman

I was thinking about the idea board. There should be a place where everyone can view all the ideas, but reposting to include additions is not very efficient.

Do you think we should have a web page outside of DV? Is there a better way serve up the data ON DV? Could we use Google Docs? Any other ideas?

Then, if I, or someone else, could be a clearing house for ideas, I would post all ideas without regard to personal preference, and then field opinions or rankings, yay's and nay's, or whatever.

Along the same lines, every other issue regarding adding roles will end up clogging this thread up. I think we should keep posting here, but we shouldn't have to look for certain posts in the thread. Don't you think that will get to be a...well, you know.

Lets use the dream journal system like iFatal did for his Lucid Dreaming groups

Are we doing C or C++? I know you said C, but sometimes this can be ambiguous.

Also, what libraries are we using?

I volunteer!

I have no skills in programming or 3D stuff.

Ever heard of the game Yume Nikki? It's a game about a girl, who is afraid of leaving her room. She spends most her time dreaming.
One has to explore her dreamworld and find treasures, talk with dream-characters and so on. It's nicely done, and freeware. I think it could give great inspiration.

Originally Posted by Rawracookie

Are we doing C or C++? I know you said C, but sometimes this can be ambiguous.

Also, what libraries are we using?

I know C. I'll be taking a C++ course next semester at my college. As for libraries, I know a bit
of SDL but if you have something else in mind that is good too.

Originally Posted by Shadow27

Lets use the dream journal system like iFatal did for his Lucid Dreaming groups

Something like this? LD Game Ideas

Yep, now make an entry so we can post comments

Originally Posted by chase

What we need more than a video game is a device of some kind where we can hook up to and record our dreams and be able to watch them back later. Just think if that were possible...it would end all movies, people would sell their dreams and make tons of money and it'd just be awesome. Sort of like that movie "Strange Days" -Chase

It would be a trillion-dollar industry. You could bottle it as a glue.

Perhaps an EEG or similar device could manage to record what we see in dreamland.

What are we going to be making the game with? Are we going to be using a freeware game engine or wrighting our own. I am infering it is going to be a 3d game right?

Originally Posted by MadMonkey

What are we going to be making the game with? Are we going to be using a freeware game engine or wrighting our own. I am infering it is going to be a 3d game right?

Yes it will be 3d and probably a scratch engine.

Originally Posted by Shadow27

Yes it will be 3d and probably a scratch engine.

Cool. I have been wanting to learn how to program an engine from scratch but I keept not having time so I keep going back and using Unity and putting it off untill the summer. Maby this could be a good learning experience.

I think I could mostly help with enemy and weapon designing but I have skills in all the other areas too.

Also what if we made a website to organize our stuff and comunicate out ideas. Another imortant part of working together on the game will be transfering models, textures ect. down the pipeline.

Originally Posted by MadMonkey

Cool. I have been wanting to learn how to program an engine from scratch but I keept not having time so I keep going back and using Unity and putting it off untill the summer. Maby this could be a good learning experience.

I think I could mostly help with enemy and weapon designing but I have skills in all the other areas too.

Also what if we made a website to organize our stuff and comunicate out ideas. Another imortant part of working together on the game will be transfering models, textures ect. down the pipeline.

It sounds like you have a decent bit of programming experience. I'd like to have you help me out with the engine
and some of the basic framework. You up for it?

Originally Posted by Shadow27

It sounds like you have a decent bit of programming experience. I'd like to have you help me out with the engine
and some of the basic framework. You up for it?

Id love to but all I really know is java based languages. I could give it a shot I suppose and you could probably teach me a few things that I have been planning on learning anyways.

I've not done too many complex things. I'm best at C++, but I can do C (of course) and Java.

Are we going to have advanced 3D clipping and physics or will this be really basic?

I can do many things programming wise. I might have to study up on it depending on what it is.

I would love to add something to the game soundtrack-wise. I have a little studio here at home, but I mostly use samples and my midi piano/sometimes guitar.

I have PLENTY of samplers for orchestral stuff, which is possibly a given considering the nature of the game.

And yes, I'm new here but have been a viewer for quite a while =P

Originally Posted by Rawracookie

Perhaps an EEG or similar device could manage to record what we see in dreamland.

You're an optimist Rawracookie!

Originally Posted by armuse

I would love to add something to the game soundtrack-wise. I have a little studio here at home, but I mostly use samples and my midi piano/sometimes guitar.

I have PLENTY of samplers for orchestral stuff, which is possibly a given considering the nature of the game.

And yes, I'm new here but have been a viewer for quite a while =P

armuse,

Glad to have you onboard. I'll add you as a contributor under music.

Why make a scratch engine when we can save time by using a free one. Blender has a really good built in game engine, and the work-flow from modelling to game engine is seamless. I know a decent amount of python(the language used in Blender), and am learning Java(which I hate at the moment), so I might be able to work on some coding. Looks like there's a lot of interest in this, the more people, the better.

Originally Posted by MadMonkey

Id love to but all I really know is java based languages. I could give it a shot I suppose and you could probably teach me a few things that I have been planning on learning anyways.

I Know both C and Java so I may be able to give you some similarities and such.

Originally Posted by Rawracookie

I've not done too many complex things. I'm best at C++, but I can do C (of course) and Java.

Are we going to have advanced 3D clipping and physics or will this be really basic?

I can do many things programming wise. I might have to study up on it depending on what it is.

I think we are going to attempt to make this advanced as possible. It may be a little big but I think with a little hard work we can handle it
I think we'll all be doing a bit of research though. I have a couple books on the subject.

Originally Posted by armuse

I would love to add something to the game soundtrack-wise. I have a little studio here at home, but I mostly use samples and my midi piano/sometimes guitar.

I have PLENTY of samplers for orchestral stuff, which is possibly a given considering the nature of the game.

And yes, I'm new here but have been a viewer for quite a while =P

Sounds good. You can work with me on that aspect then. Two heads are better than one I can send you
a couple of my ideas and such and we can work on the orchestration / arrangement.

Originally Posted by mcguinnessdr

Why make a scratch engine when we can save time by using a free one. Blender has a really good built in game engine, and the work-flow from modelling to game engine is seamless. I know a decent amount of python(the language used in Blender), and am learning Java(which I hate at the moment), so I might be able to work on some coding. Looks like there's a lot of interest in this, the more people, the better.

The blender code should be sufficient for the graphics engine which should definitely take
a lot of work off our hands. We'll probably do the physics engine from scratch though.

@Shadow27: I created a spreadsheet to list the team members. How do you recommend I make this available to everyone?

All,

I created a page LD Game Team Ideas to post ideas for the LD Game. Can we call it Lucid per Shadow27 for now? We can change the name later if we choose.

The Team Ideas page is for listing one-off ideas. I think we should use the thread you are currently reading from for discussions and fleshing out ideas.

If we do this in the blender thing, I can learn python. I've been meaning to learn it anyways.