Still Dreaming

by bach
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.56
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.27
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.15
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.49
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.27
Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.13
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.78
Community★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★6%
"Still Dreaming" is a short adventure into an abstract landscape. The player is faced with a variety of puzzles and hopefully will get a bit of laugh out of trying to escape this weird dream.

The main goal was to create a game with a specific atmosphere that guides the player through a short story giving a glance into a different world.

This is distributed as an executable jar. So all you'll need is JAVA to run this. This works on Windows/Mac. Make sure you turn on the speakers, there are some eerie sounds.

UPDATE: Enhanced post compo version added. I mainly fixed up some visual things and few glitches. More content will be added later.

I'll be porting this over to Android!

Tools used:
- GIMP for all graphics
- REAPER.FM for audio
- LIBGDX as a graphics framework
- ECLIPSE IDE

Comments39

bach
bachauthor21 Aug 2011, 22:30
Thank you :)
cr22 Aug 2011, 11:33
Beautiful game. I'm stuck on the first level though, lol.
KavuDX
KavuDX22 Aug 2011, 21:25
I felt like a brainiac after solving the tree puzzle...

Awesome game man, keep on deving this one!
Scalarr22 Aug 2011, 21:35
The particle effects and the ambient atmosphere created by the music and sfx are amazing! Great experience for such a short game. Cheers!
dave8422 Aug 2011, 21:48
Gorgeous. Plays really well. The audio and the graphics gel together really well.
Kouta23 Aug 2011, 10:25
It's short, but made of epic winnage.
Kinta
Kinta23 Aug 2011, 11:06
Great entry, I really liked it. :)
kevglass
kevglass23 Aug 2011, 12:07
Bizarre but totally engrossing. Lovely.
rawbits
rawbits23 Aug 2011, 13:20
I really don't get this. Where is the puzzle? I don't want to spoiler this, but I didn't need to think even for a sec...
And also you don't know when is autopilot and when the controls are yours...no fun here.
dramble
dramble23 Aug 2011, 15:44
Quite the experience, puzzles hit just the right level of difficulty for me. Good job.
N0_Named_Guy23 Aug 2011, 18:42
What seems to be a beautiful game (seeing from the screen shots) doesn't run on Linux =(
bach
bachauthor24 Aug 2011, 00:03
Thanks everyone for playing :)

@N0_Named_Guy: Unfortunately I couldn't test it on Linux :( I'm working on uploading an applet so that should hopefully work through your browser.
foobaz24 Aug 2011, 02:17
I had to download the source as well and run the jar from stilldreaming-desktop so it could get assets. But I still couldn't get it to work on Linux. Here's the error in case it helps you debug.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.JarRsrcLoader.main(JarRsrcLoader.java:58)
Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /tmp/libgdx/733885368/liblwjgl.so: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.17/jre/lib/i386/libjawt.so: symbol awt_FreeDrawingSurface, version SUNWprivate_1.1 not defined in file libmawt.so with link time reference
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1758)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1654)
at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:770)
at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1003)
at org.lwjgl.Sys$1.run(Sys.java:70)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.doLoadLibrary(Sys.java:66)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.loadLibrary(Sys.java:82)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.<clinit>(Sys.java:99)
at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.<clinit>(AL.java:59)
at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.openal.OpenALAudio.<init>(OpenALAudio.java:59)
at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.openal.OpenALAudio.<init>(OpenALAudio.java:47)
at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication.<init>(LwjglApplication.java:56)
at com.thegreystudios.stilldreaming.StillDreamingDesktop.main(StillDreamingDesktop.java:20)
bach
bachauthor24 Aug 2011, 03:05
@foobaz: Thanks for that, I'm looking into it. Not sure why you had to get the assets from the source though, they're definitely included in the jar.

The source is a royal mess.. :P
marudziik
marudziik24 Aug 2011, 13:44
Really nice graphics and audio. Awesome, but too short! :) Knock, knock!
grimloom24 Aug 2011, 20:32
Love this one. Very pretty. I could definitely play a longer version :D
foobaz25 Aug 2011, 00:14
Thanks for putting up the applet. It works for me.

Nice game with nice graphics (although a bit short, but I'm not really complaining for LD). I didn't quite understand the ending (although I have a feeling there isn't that much to understand).
bach
bachauthor25 Aug 2011, 01:18
@foobaz: glad the applet worked. And yes there's not much to the ending, except it's an ending :) I ran out of time and needed to somehow finish it.

@marudziik: Yes!! Was waiting for someone to discover that one :)

@grimloom: Longer "full" version is in the plans. I had a design ready for 6 stages but just couldn't pull it off in 48hrs. Glad you enjoyed it.
syrup
syrup25 Aug 2011, 03:32
How creative!
matthias_zarzecki25 Aug 2011, 06:52
Neat puzzles. The graphic-style of pink + green is also quite impressive.
gimblll
gimblll25 Aug 2011, 12:48
Great atmosphere. A bit short.
Benjamin26 Aug 2011, 23:41
beautiful game, the background ambient music is good !
d_m27 Aug 2011, 04:20
Fantastic game! Loved the audio/visual puzzles... the music and sounds were great and the graphics were beautiful. Really nice mood. I thought the ghost squids could have looked a tiny bit nicer, and more than 2 puzzles would have been fun, but still, great 48 hour puzzle game!
Rudy27 Aug 2011, 13:38
Very nice atmosphere and presentation. Visuals are great, though I did not quite like the character design. Apple puzzle was a bit not too straight-froward because no feedback was given when I tried dropping just one apple near him. Too short though.
Daniel X. Moore27 Aug 2011, 17:20
Nice graphics and audio! The puzzles were just challenging enough for me to keep at it, though the game is pretty short.
summaky
summaky27 Aug 2011, 17:49
This game is as short as pretty. The music is really atmospheric and I loved the style. I wish you make a longer post-competition version.
Cirrial
Cirrial28 Aug 2011, 09:36
Very nice ambience. The sounds add to it and I love the surreal dreamscape feeling of the game world. Such a shame it's so short. I'd like to see more of this in the future.
bach
bachauthor28 Aug 2011, 10:54
Wow, thanks for all the love people :) I'm already working on more content..

Meanwhile I polished a few things up and added an enhanced version. Cheers!
Andrew28 Aug 2011, 19:03
Rather impressive visuals and sounds but the puzzles seemed more trial and error-ish than than anything.
arielsan28 Aug 2011, 19:37
Great game, I love the atmosphere of the game, the aesthetics and sounds effects.
aaronsnoswell
aaronsnoswell29 Aug 2011, 00:22
Awesome! Love the feel created by the spooky music and dreamscape graphics! Reminds me soo much of beneath a steel sky.
Darkzombies31 Aug 2011, 06:23
Knock Knock.
Who's There?
Britney Spears.
Britney Spears Who?
Knock Knock.
Who's There?
Oops I Did It Again.

LOL!
PaulSB
PaulSB2 Sep 2011, 12:45
Well, this is a little bit beautiful, isn't it! Great visual and audio work. However I was totally stumped on that first puzzle until I chanced the solution, wasn't really obvious. But yeah, great entry!
Winterblood
Winterblood11 Sep 2011, 22:06
Lovely art and music, impenetrable first puzzle. I couldn't get off the first screen :(
Felipe Budinich
Felipe Budinich12 Sep 2011, 22:00
I'm not really a fan of adventure games (I think i've said that very same line a few hundred times by now).

But your sound design is awesome, especially the stereo effects, and the art is top notch, congratulations!
bach
bachauthor13 Sep 2011, 02:57
Thanks everyone for playing and rating :)

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