I Dream in Polygons
I have pretty strange dreams. Some people attribute to eating right before bed, but I’d say it’s more likely an overactive imagination. Last night I dreamed in polygons. Sort of. I essentially dreamed up a new idea for a game. Rather than playing the game in the dream, though, I was actually in the game–a sort of bizarre abstract rail shooter/space invaders hybrid with square enemies bouncing around the screen. I don’t know if it would actually be fun or not to play, but it sure was pretty to look at (maybe I’ve been playing too much Rez). I spent a little time this morning brainstorming how I would actually take a surreal dream-game and turn it into something, but I think the scope of the project (maybe XNA?) would be just a little too much for my schedule right now. I’ll have to do a few sketches and take some careful notes so that I can add it to my list of games I’ll make when I have a little more free time.
I don’t know how many times I’ve woken up from a really vivid dream like that and tried to plan out a way for it to be as fun in real life as it was while I was asleep. My results have always been kind of inconclusive.
Sounds fun. I love having dreams about imaginary games, especially when they’re good ones. Most aren’t great ideas though. Like a real-time cross country running game with cel-shaded graphics. That was an interesting dream.