Wednesday 15 October 2014

Final Game Idea: First Draft

Game Title Ideas?
Dream Journal, Escaping Subconscious, Lucid, Lucidity,
Im going to go for Lucidity, so ...

Lucidity (First Person)

Make your way through the surreal dreamscapes of your mind & take control of your subconscious. Achieve this buy collecting Lucidity particles. Fight creatures of the night and gain powers to help you on your way. Scared of heights? Then why let gravity get you down with the power of flight.
Adventure your way through a world of your own, and rid your world of nightmares.
This is your world, Become King...
Use your Imagination & willpower to adapt to any obstacle you find on the astral plane.

As you play through the game the enemies and environments become harder.

How I came to this Idea
After thinking of meaningful games to do with Narcolepsy, I struggled to create a suitable game that could let the player experience what its actually like to be a Narcoleptic. There are some things games just cant get across, well not yet. I started to think that realistically your average gamer would not want to play a game that allows you to experience Narcolepsy, it may be educational and perhaps help people relate to Narcoleptics but it wouldn't be an enjoyable experience that they would want to come back too.
I would like my game to be something the player would like to come back to and get lost in. Then I started asking myself what part of Narcolepsy would normal people like to experience? I thought about hallucinations, although interesting they are more scary than anything else.
There aren't any true positive of being a narcoleptic but there is a double edged sword, (and my game will show the positive edge) as what is partly to blame for the excessive daytime sleepiness is that we spend a large time of time asleep in R.E.M. where we dream more vividly and for longer than people who have normal sleep cycles. I have not actually met any other Narcoleptics as it is quite an unusual condition but I am under the belief that the majority like me are able to Lucid dream, as we spend so much of our time dreaming I think its only natural to learn how to control it.

So Im hoping for my game to get across the experience not so much of being Narcoleptic but of being a Lucid Dreamer.
Heres some Wikipedia if your unsure what Lucid Dreaming is, (it is a vague term as there our different kinds but heres the gist):
lucid dream is any dream in which one is aware that one is dreaming. In a lucid dream, the dreamer has greater chances to exert some degree of control over their participation within the dream or be able to manipulate their imaginary experiences in the dream environment. Lucid dreams can be realistic and vivid. It is shown that there are higher amounts of beta-1 frequency band (13–19 Hz) brain wave activity experienced by lucid dreamers, hence there is an increased amount of activity in the parietal lobes making lucid dreaming a conscious process. 

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