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[GregWS]

Trouble with dreams is that they do vary between people.  There are commonalities of course, by my dreams aren't your dreams and vice-versa.  Personally, I've had good and bad dreams that fall in all different parts of the real/fake spectrum, so I'm more open to how game devs might approach the idea of a dream game.  Understandably, if your dreams are more consistently in a "real, with one thing off" setting, then only games that do that will seem like dreams to you.

[ChevyRay]

Dreams are realistic

Hmm

Not mine. My dreams are indescribable. Sometimes they DO have walls textured in off-color photographs. Dreams just don't follow the rules, really. Or at least the rules they follow are too complex and strange to really interpret.

[Bree]

My dreams vary constantly in setting, detail, and sensibility or lack thereof. Back on topic, I do like the idea that this was based on a staff member's dream journal- wonder how much of the game is taken directly from that book?

[neon]

i think the only thing that people's dreams have in common is the feeling of something a little bit off.  i for one am blessed with having really awesome, picturesque, epic dreams.  of course, this is counterbalanced by also getting really awesome, picturesque, epic nightmares.

[Bree]

Cool; what's weird is that my dreams usually seem to make sense at the time. Like once, when I was at this boarding school where all of the grades were forced into trenches to try and fight each other (a literal class war). I decided that this was a terrible idea, and proceeded to debate with my classmates in a freeform rap-off. It was quite awesome.

[neon]

yeah, dreams always seem perfectly logical while you're having them, but you wake up and go 

[GregWS]

a freeform rap-off.

That, good sir, is epic 

[William Broom]

ahem. On topic, I would like to see a 2D game that imitates the style of Dr. Seuss - twisted buildings, disturbingly gooey water, numerous objects balanced precariously on top of each other, furry animals with long necks, and the sky is always a flat white in the day and a flat black at night.

Now just imagine running, jumping and puzzle-solving through there.

[GregWS]

Good idea!  It would be quite the environment to experience, and you probably could add some interesting illusions if you felt like it too.

[ChevyRay]

That would rule. Seuss is the shit.

[Bree]

A proper Dr. Seuss game might just cure AIDS- it would be that awesome.

[agj]

(LSD and Yume Nikki.)

I was about to mention both these games!

[Melly]

I second the need of a Dr. Seuss game.

[dmoonfire]

ahem. On topic, I would like to see a 2D game that imitates the style of Dr. Seuss - twisted buildings, disturbingly gooey water, numerous objects balanced precariously on top of each other, furry animals with long necks, and the sky is always a flat white in the day and a flat black at night.

Now just imagine running, jumping and puzzle-solving through there.

This is one of the things on my list of "damn, I wish I could figure this out":

http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/research/art/kowalski-s99-preprint-300dpi.pdf

It shows how some guys figured out a way of creating some of Dr. Suess' trees and furs in a 3D environment.

[Saint]

This is one of the things on my list of "damn, I wish I could figure this out":

http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/research/art/kowalski-s99-preprint-300dpi.pdf

It shows how some guys figured out a way of creating some of Dr. Suess' trees and furs in a 3D environment.

That was awesome!

I have been experimenting some with different NPR techniques, haven't made anything new in awhile, but here is an old stroke render test...

[Bree]

I really love that stroke01 render, Saint.

[neon]

This is one of the things on my list of "damn, I wish I could figure this out":

http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/research/art/kowalski-s99-preprint-300dpi.pdf

It shows how some guys figured out a way of creating some of Dr. Suess' trees and furs in a 3D environment.

that's really vucking cool.  god i wish they did a realtime demo of it or something and released it