Dreamless

by depp
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.49
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.42
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.45
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.14
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.12
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.31
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.26
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.55
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★100%
Shadow: Don't touch anything. If you mess with the dream world, you mess with the physical world too.

Girl: What's wrong with your face?

Let me know if you have problems with graphics or sounds... there should be both, ideally.

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Comments43

Endurion
Endurion26 Aug 2014, 19:33
Waiting for a Windows build.
TeamQuadratic27 Aug 2014, 05:18
Loved the idea, and the levels were very well designed!
Stepwise27 Aug 2014, 05:24
Hey, this is great.

I played all the way through to the end, and I was curious to see how the relationship between the girl and the shadow would turn out. Missed one of the dialogue boxes, though.

Great game and content.
Endurion
Endurion27 Aug 2014, 05:25
Thanks for the Windows build!

Very nice game, I like those place-command games. Even comes with a bunch of stages.
TehSkull
TehSkull27 Aug 2014, 05:40
"XML Parsing Error: unexpected parser state Location: jar:file:///B:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Aurora/browser/omni.ja!/chrome/browser/content/browser/aboutneterror/netError.xhtml Line Number 305, Column 54: <div id="ed_netTimeout">&netTimeout.longDesc;</div> -----------------------------------------------------^"
hundredhundred27 Aug 2014, 05:44
Interesting mechanics and well presented to the player. I would have liked to see what you could have done with all 3 jump, reverse jump and drop actions in play together though. Lots of potential there. I'm not sure why you need a gate for the player to activate the knights, assigning that to a key press would have made it less tedious to retry puzzles. Art-wise I like the wavy effect you got going on for the dream world. Animations would have added some nice polish though.
LandoSystems
LandoSystems27 Aug 2014, 05:51
Nice work, this is a great puzzle game! The mood is spot on between the art style and the music. The puzzles are clever but not impossible. I love the shimmer effect during the planning phase that turns solid when you set the guys going. Great job!
Phaix
Phaix27 Aug 2014, 05:52
Great! Was really fun to play. Just the water like effect wasn't my favorite ;)
ninjascript27 Aug 2014, 05:56
Extremely awesome. Great visual effects. Loved the dialog. 5 stars. Would play again.
Njord27 Aug 2014, 07:08
Very nice ! I like the gameplay, and the mood of the game is great :)
SoulGame
SoulGame28 Aug 2014, 01:34
Some good ideas, nice arts, i like the dialogue between the two main characters.
Maybe you should add some animation to the characters.
Good work, very pleasant game.
ajayajayaj
ajayajayaj28 Aug 2014, 02:36
Great Game. Cool how the Shadow talks. Awesome music and cool fog effect!
nerd burglars
nerd burglars28 Aug 2014, 02:51
I loved how you put the power in the player's hands. Very creative. Very cool :)
Tanser28 Aug 2014, 04:12
Such amazing atmosphere! Good job! I am really impressed! The graphics effect is so nice! The music is amazing!
whilefun28 Aug 2014, 04:12
Unfortunately, this crashes for me as soon as I open the executable. Windows 7 64-bit. Might have to do with intel graphics card? It's a fairly crumby laptop.
Dietrich Eppauthor28 Aug 2014, 04:28
whilefun: Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, the error handling in this game is mostly done by calling the abort() function whenever an error appears.
eruiz0028 Aug 2014, 16:40
Inspiring ambient is what lacks in modern games. Think a minute before going to develoop, too. I did not see these problems in this game. I'll save to play on night.
dcampos
dcampos28 Aug 2014, 16:41
Waiting for the Linux port.
andrewkennedy
andrewkennedy28 Aug 2014, 20:17
Good atmosphere - the music really helped it along! Nice way to tie in the theme too. A little bit of animation would have gone a long way.
Chaoslab
Chaoslab29 Aug 2014, 02:35
That was fun. Well rounded and interesting. Good effort! :-)
Hypnohustla
Hypnohustla29 Aug 2014, 07:08
Great game! It ended just as I was getting to the taste of it. I need more :)
KingBolonzo30 Aug 2014, 20:21
Nice work especially in 48 hours
ChuiGum
ChuiGum1 Sep 2014, 04:37
Awesome! Really fun! Cool idea and awesome job overall!
OinkIguana
OinkIguana1 Sep 2014, 04:40
Very well done in every way. Ending was a bit anticlimactic but excellent overall.
bluesky1 Sep 2014, 08:21
Nice game Love the gameplay.
Crefossus
Crefossus1 Sep 2014, 08:26
I love the sound fx and audio, they really helped create the mood. The writing was also very strong and humorous. I actually solved a level before talking to the guy and replayed it just to read what was said :D

I think the level before last was a little frustrating because of how accurate the level design made you be. I had solved the puzzle in theory but had to replace them like 5 times to get it perfect.

Obviously could use a walking animation to go with the nice sfx.
jprogman
jprogman2 Sep 2014, 06:55
The actions took me a try to get the idea on what each type does. A little trial and error, but nothing too concerning.
Is there a way I could remove the actions I have just placed?
yodamaster2 Sep 2014, 10:53
Great game! I like the concept and mood. If you improve the gfx and add some animations for the characters, you can easily sell that.
MunkeeBacon
MunkeeBacon4 Sep 2014, 01:23
The sounds are all really nice! And clever game idea!
Mach60KAS
Mach60KAS4 Sep 2014, 01:40
Very atmospheric, I loved the puzzle mechanics and music!
Rehacked5 Sep 2014, 11:05
Good game but what happened to the story ?? i thought it had abetter story at end !anyway good job!
Teesquared
Teesquared8 Sep 2014, 04:52
Great game. Very complete. Graphics and audio are top notch. I like the wavy effect in dream land. Really sets the mood.
mystakin
mystakin8 Sep 2014, 05:24
Really impressed by the wavy dream effect and mood. Gameplay reminded me a bit of Lemmings, which I adore, so that was also rad. Wish it explored multiple abilities more, but it is a short time to make a gamer after all. Great work!
Larzan
Larzan9 Sep 2014, 08:05
Nice one, i like the idea. Good effects too :)
klianc099 Sep 2014, 17:46
The music and fog effect create a great mysterious atmosphere.
Liked the puzzles, I just don't understand why I have to control a player character, and can't simply drag and drop the actions where I want?
panurge10 Sep 2014, 15:25
Really nicely planned puzzles and a lovely, mysterious mood. The challenge and the story were pitched just right to keep me playing. Good work!
puppetmaster
puppetmaster10 Sep 2014, 17:37
I like planning games, and this one is very cool! There is a bug withe dialog window when you are in the real world you can't press it away with space.
rfgpfeiffer10 Sep 2014, 18:36
I could not run the binaries on my ubuntu 14.4. When I try to build it from source, it says

/usr/bin/python3: can't open file './sglib/script/config.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Dietrich Eppauthor11 Sep 2014, 07:38
Er, I didn't read your comment well. I'll at least say that distributing binaries on Linux is a bit of a crapshoot: I tried to make the binary as portable as I could, but obviously something went wrong. If you get that error message when compiling, it's because you didn't check out the git submodules, or you downloaded a tagged release from GitHub. Can you tell me what went wrong when you tried to run the program? Any console output when you run it from a terminal?
apiotrw13 Sep 2014, 15:28
Nice game

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