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Dreamshift

By agentparsec

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness371
Theme1313.84
Audio2233.31
Innovation2663.54
Humor2862.82
Mood2923.31
Overall5363.23
Fun6232.97
Graphics6762.92

Comments

fanatrick 2014-08-25 03:42

Cool concept, however it's 21mB in size D:

lucidsheep 2014-08-25 03:46

Great idea! Just some glitches in the dream world (sometimes you wake up as soon as you fall asleep). I love how the worlds merge when the stress bar fills up!

cogentinvalid 2014-08-25 03:47

I really liked the interplay between the awake and dream worlds, and the ways each of them affected the sleep and stress meters. The dynamic music was good, too.

jaloko 2014-08-25 03:47

I Like the usage of parallax and great theme incorporation.

umu 2014-08-25 03:49

As designed, this game involves a lot of waiting. Get to ledge, wait to fall asleep, flip switch, wait, wake up etc etc. Then I died...didn't want to wait again.

Nice music, good production values.

agentparsec 2014-08-25 03:50

@lucidsheep - It's not a glitch; you wake up as soon as your energy recharges, so if you force yourself to go to sleep while your energy is almost full, it will wake you up immediately. Jump around a bit to burn off some energy first and you'll be fine.

geekygenius 2014-08-25 03:51

Wow, I don't ever want to sleep too stressed out irl now. That shit is creepy.

someone9999 2014-08-25 03:57

Good game! It took me a second to figure out how to get past the second jump and that I needed to use the dream world, but once I got a hang of the mechanics, it was pretty cool.

The audio in the game is awesome. I like how it changes based on stress level and whether or not you are in the dream world.

huntthewumpus 2014-08-25 03:59

Woo. parallax scrolling :D nice idea of switching between two worlds and solving puzzles.

agentparsec 2014-08-25 04:00

@nintendoeats - If you press 'x', it makes you fall asleep immediately, at the cost of some additional stress.

endesga 2014-08-25 04:55

11/10 needs more parallaxes -IGN

tbamberg 2014-08-25 05:35

nice background ;)

jprogman 2014-08-26 04:22

Lots of ominousness, specially when stressed. Definitely adds points to mood. Although, with the game's slight difficulty, there should be a checkpoint at round 2. I get stressed to restart the entire game again. :(
Also, SHIFT key for jump isn't friendly on a Windows computer due to the "Sticky Key" feature. Just to let you know. Very nice game overall! Now, I must sleep...zzz

resonious 2014-08-27 02:37

Pretty cool game. The idea definitely has potential.

liquidminduk 2014-08-27 07:31

A little slow to download for me, but overall nice and clean level design, parallax works well to add depth. Great game overall

mekuri 2014-08-27 14:23

Nice idea- A bit buggy at times, it even crashed once for me- But worked fine after that. I like how the dreamworld and realworld merges when stress is high. I could've been without the yawn animation everytime I switched back and forth, but that is being a bit nit picky :P

samoojamies 2014-08-27 20:01

The controls felt a bit stiff. Transition between worlds could be faster too. Good points from innovation and theme :)

tanser 2014-09-01 06:32

Lovely idea, lovely executed! Only flaw was that the character was so slow when in the normal world...
Incredible for a compo, good job!

depp 2014-09-02 01:20

The way the dream world "leaks" is amazing, I love it. However, it is very frustrating to fail on level 2 and get booted back to level 1, especially if I just did something stupid like miss the first jump!

logan 2014-09-03 03:22

It's a pretty neat concept. I got a little freaked out just from reading your gameplay description, heh... I really liked how different the dream world felt once the stress level started rising. You pulled off a very nice transition between a happy, ethereal rest and... something very wrong, and very dire. The music for it was most excellently done.

Unfortunately the platforming itself was a tad buggy. I stopped after missing the same jump a second time because for some reason it didn't register the key press (or something). I really liked what I played of it, though.

tosic 2014-09-09 17:56

Amazing sounds and I like the idea, pursue it, of course, I want to see some more! :D

mrspeaker 2014-09-14 20:02

awww, this looks really cool - but I don't have Unity. I wish you had of exported it to the web player!

agentparsec 2014-09-14 21:00

@mrspeaker - Just the source requires Unity, the Windows export doesn't need it to run. Also, I didn't do the web player export because it was buggy.

jupiter_hadley 2014-09-15 23:28

Cool concept! I included it in part 28 of my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/Hmt93jxkWGQ