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I had a few this morning. One was a chess style game where you moved in rook moves between stars or points to kill the opponent, and could make unlimited of those but you couldn't cross certain points.

Others but I don't wanna talk about them. One has some ethnic stereotyping (NON VIOLENT)

I also played a crappy "chess" style game where you moved single circular pieces in linear movements one space at a time, that's how they could capture too. Played vs some old German lady (ETHNIC STEREOTYPING EARLIER MENTIONED IS NOT GERMAN OR RELATED TO ANYTHING ABOUT THAT). I was pumped because I was gonna kick her ass, her opening moves were terrible.

I do this all the time! The other day...

I was thinking about sinewaves and somehow they ended up in my dream. I saw a snake... Then I was playing Snake. Snake moving in a sine-wave fashion. Would be pretty cool. Probably has been done before.

Two days ago, I was having trouble sleeping (18 minutes of sleep. :tired:), and I was thinking about programming... what method would work best, problems I might come across... It seemed so real. But I guess this doesn't really count because I wasn't asleep.

How about uploading a song and the snake's shape vary to the sound waves?

Good idea! But I'll have to postpone it; I am about to finish my first game after being a developer for 2 years. So I can't get distracted again!

That kind of stuff... it does happen to me. rarely, but it does.

Actually, the main plot twist of the game I'm currently making originated in a dream I had some time ago. Now I can't say what it is (huge spoilers etc) but I can say it was so mindblowing I immediately woke up after the dream and wrote it down like nothing else mattered in my life. At 4AM.

Whenever I dream of games in my dreams they are never violent... they tend to have rainbows, happy music, and only (EDIT: Completely clothed) female characters. What does this say about me? The games I tend to design in real life are more shooters and turn-based games.

I'll dream that I've written a few thousand lines of code, and have pretty much finished my project, only to awake to code that won't even compile.  :'(

Make a game about rainbows, happy music and females. Clothed or not, your choice.

Not clothed. Definitely not clothed.

A casual game... I might give it a shot, I never did one before though :-[.

Where the hell would I start with this project?

If some of my dreams ended up as games, they would be nearly as trippy as some of cactus's games...
I remember that one of my dreams resembled the style of cutscenes from Halo or Halo 2 (I played a lot of Halo back then).

Better than waking up to no code at all, and no motivation to write any code.
For some reason I only feel motivated to write code and/or design games when I'm too tired to do so.

Edit: Level 5!

i've had dreams of super mario games of my own device, the level design was amazing to my unbiased, unconscious mind. lucid dreams are the best videogames ever, but i can't summon them on command unfortunately.

the thought of somebody lucid dreaming only to play a game of tetris just popped to mind and i got a chuckle from it.

Sadly, I can totally imagine a certain one of my friends doing just that.

I wonder what it would be like to consciously design a game and play it through lucid dreaming...

Wouldn't be very fun for me. The games I create either aren't fun for me and are a fairly fun for most others, or are great fun to me and everyone is weirded out that I am having so much fun playing this crappy game.

I don't think I would have this blessing if I could lucid dream.

The games in my dreams are always pretty much impossible. I never dream of mechanics, just random gameplay. Then again, many of my non-dream ideas are also impossible.


I've always had this dream of somehow communicating directly to people's brains. Being able to think of a song and have others listen as it's thought. Thinking of an image and having others see what you think. What you said made me wonder what it'd be like to play a game as it's thought up. I don't know why i never wondered before.

jason rohrer's sleep is death kind of fits that description, but i haven't played it yet.

I went to sleep last night thinking first about a single pixel dodging / moving around a bunch of other lines, geometries etc. Then this turned into wavy motions and then I started thinking about snakes and fish(es) moving with a similar pattern. It was fun.. concentrating/meditating on something prior to sleep tends to give me better lucid dreams / more consciousness during the sleep (as opposed to "fuck i'm tired i just want to sleep").

Tergem, that's hilarious.

tergem's post tells me he needs to Google "Touhou" immediately.

I actually do all of my conceptual work and outlining in my sleep/dreams. Code snippets. Musical tones. 16-bit atmoshpere (mileage may vary, however).

But I'm also the kind of person where being awake/asleep is really only differenciated by whether or not my body is resting at the time mostly. So even when I'm awake and conceptualizing, it's almost like dreaming in the meantime.

I rarely ever dream game, Only twice in my whole life

That second time was a golden shield mechanics for sonic: It's a sort of insta shield (sonic 3 double press) except it let you rebound on spike, You can only rebound 3 times before it break and then you are out of the rolling state.

The dream showcased a lot of risk/reward puzzle based on that movement with momentum/speed situation.

Interesting, I am a bloody horrible artist though.

That actually cuts pretty close in terms of color scheme... the art in my dreams is more western style. The gameplay is difficult to describe, closest would be Peggle combined with an interactive story + some match three.

It was implied once that all the males were killed :o (Exact words were "Since we made them go away")... but only once and in passing.

How? You peak my interests.

For the rainbows (and arguably the happy music, depending on how happy you mean), you'd have to turn to Robot Unicorn Attack, unless you count rainbow-colored bullet patterns as rainbows. Speaking of which, what would RUA crossed with Touhou be like? :crazy:
Edit: Nevermind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BL_Ob9DFBo).

I can only remember a single occasion where I actually got a design from my dreams that I remembered when I woke up, but I've completely forgotten what it was by now. I was really interested in lucid dreaming for a little while because I thought it would be a great opportunity to explore some hidden creativity within myself, but then I watched Inception and got freaked out about lucid dreaming screwing up my perception of reality. Probably a good call. I'm disconnected from reality enough as it is.

I rarely do actual design during dreams, but it happens. When it does, it's mostly about small details that had me stumped.

However, it happens somewhat frequently that just after I wake up, I come all of sudden with the solution to a design / programming problem, or that I make up some mechanic for a game.

And finally, I have weird dreams. Some of my dreams can be translated into game mechanics, so I write them down right after I wake up before forgeting them. 2 of the 3 game biggest game ideas that I want to make some day, came out of this.

I had a dream where I did a car game that had a song that would make the persons watching the game very melancholic. I had someone random watching me playing it, and after some two laps she asked why I hated her or something like that.

I have no plans to do such game. And never will.  :epileptic:

Sounds like a good partygame then. Or "social-gaming" :D

Some serious (mood-wise, realistic future) RPG where the final dungeon involves more sneaking than fighting and the "final battle" wasn't really that final.

"Racingship: The laps of the course that is sadness"
I can see it kill anyone's Facebook friends list, one by one.  >:D

Game designing in my dreams is impossible, because I can never remember my dreams. Maybe some memory like 3 mins after I wake up, but any longer and it's a blur.

I've only ever wanted to make my nightmares into games, I've wrote a few down in immaculate detail so I can make them later. (read: when I have a computer)

Dream recall takes practice. If you want to be able to design in dreams at will, you actually have to train your brain to be able to do it.

I can never remember my dreams more than 30 seconds after I wake up. I guess they aren't that vivid enough for me.

No, you just need to write them down if you want to remember them. Most people who want to practice dream recall keep dream journals and write down notes about their dreams as soon as they wake up.

lol, i can generally remember my dreams 30 seconds after waking up. I usually return to them after 10 minutes. My problem is that when i get out of bed, a few hours later, by then i don't remember.

I tend to either not have or not remember dreams, although I've had a few nice ideas in dreams [that I didn't really continue on], such as a pseudo Shadow of the Colossus except with a faaabulous color scheme [namely pink, yellow and blue].

You know, nightmares would probably make for some interesting games as well and already has; Yume Nikki was more-or-less an ideal mix of nightmare with game.

Woa. Had a really weird experience last night. Only half of my brain was sleeping. Quite literally.

I had one eye open and the other half of me was dead asleep. My right side keep falling in and out of lucid dreaming and it was extremely jarring.
I thought I was having a stroke.

What I'm curious about was if it actually happened, or I just had a weird lucid dream that was about ... Being awake on one side of my body.

Sorry, I hope that wasn't too off subject.  :shrug2:

One time I had a dream I was using Game Maker and photos of myself cosplaying to recreate Cave Story.


Hehehe.

'I dreamt I was a butterfly.

I couldn't tell if I was dreaming, but when I woke
I was I and not a butterfly.

Was I dreaming that I was a butterfly?

Or was the butterfly dreaming that it was me?

Even if there's a difference between the butterfly and I
the distinction isn't absolute.

And there is no relationship of cause and effect.

-Soshi, a Japanese poet

mind = blown  :o

Yup, good stuff.
So.. I finally had the weird lucid creative consciousness stuff again last night. Scared me, being awake and thinking without moving, strange sensations in my body. I kept fearing that some freak of consciousness would kill me.. gotta remember it's all in the mind when I do the dreaming, otherwise I end up sleeping on my face (lucid stuff doesn't happen) and then my neck hurts in the morning. Will try for tonight. I was thinking about programming / game design as I went to sleep.

Yeah, sometimes when I'm entering into a lucid dream I try to wake myself, I'm get afraid if the dream gets scary. The last lucid dream I interrupted started like the intro in BIT. TRIP BIT, with me as Commander Video (I think I also saw a bit of Pong happening).  :droop:

I think I distantly remember dreaming about playing a video game one night. Upon later examination in the light of dawn, I decided it was actually hideously broken and would never be playable.

Wish I could remember what it was now...

Heinz, does this ring a bell?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis)

Manuel, what about BIT TRIP tripped you out?

BIT. TRIP BEAT, although I have seen recently the trailer of BIT. TRIP FLUX (which from the trailer had the same game play as BEAT), so it was either of them.

I hear there's a correlation between smoking pot before bed and not remembering your dreams the next morning. I for one, barely ever remember my dreams. Read into that as you will.

I have a recurring dream where I can jump extremely high, like a super-power or low gravity. Each time, I start out slowly, and generally have a great time with it. That is, until I start to jump above telephone poles, and my fear of heights sharply changes the mood. I end up losing control, and often times the fall will wake me when I hit the ground.

Talk about a scary way to wake up!  :crazy:

I also hear there is a correlation between smoking pot and short term memory loss.

Seriously, just re-read that.

So.. what tripped you out? What unnerved you in your dream?

Oh, that. I felt my body being transportated and I heard the sound from the end of the intro of the first BIT. TRIP (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAKw5MWbnnU sound at 1:45) and seeing some game footage at the same time. I wanted to wake because I was too scared about it, since I really felt like I was moving.

Or maybe vice-versa, so the snake's wave formation changes the way the wave sounds, and the formation changes depending on how you move.

Could be an out of body experience/sleep paralysis. I get it a lot too, it's pretty interesting and not too scary once you learn about it.

I got shot in my dream this week, the night before working on an assassin game.

I recently had a nightmare. I must say it was tense and exhilarating.. almost fun.

I think this shows how much fun a game can be when you really get into it.

 :handmoneyL: :wizard: :handthumbsupR:

Remember that Flow is achieved at the peak of Mastery and Challenge. Ridiculous Challenge with little to master is stupid hard. Ridiculously detailed stuff to master with no challenge is stupid easy.

Hit that sweet spot though...

Fell asleep in front of the fireplace, but before falling asleep, I noticed that I could see the orange flicker with my eyes closed. I ended up having a dream where I kept putting out a fire, and it would show up somewhere else in the house. Once things got out of hand I woke up.  :whome:

And was your house on fire?

Luckily not. That would have been a really shitty way to wake up.  :concerned:

Just over a week ago I was off work ill, and had a fever.  I kept dreaming about my game I'm developing - a real short dream where the player (an airplane) would point straight up, and stall, and they I'd wake up.  Over & over & over all through the night :(

Maybe its a sign that I'd been working on my game too hard?

Another feverish dream I was having was recursively traversing a binary tree, trying to keep the balance between hot & cold branches.  It was some sort of fir tree.  Just plain weird, and repetitive too.