Deeper Trance

Enter the Deeper Trance

This game will led you into a deeper and deeper trance* as you descend deeper and deeper through the levels.! Let the music descend infinitely until you reach the deeper trance!

You loved magic images when you were a child where you could see 3D images hidden in seemingly random arrangement of dots! You wished that this 3d images could move and lead you into their world ? This game is made for you!

*no guarantee. Some subjects are immune to trance and/or autostereogram!

You should be able to read Deeper Trance in the above image.

What is it ?

The game use the autostereogram effect to make you see a 3d paddle that you can rotate to go through slit shaped holes at it fall *deeper and deeper*.

The game in itself is a classic agility/fall-*deeper-and-deeper*-through-holes game.

The music is a shepard tone to continuously go *deeper and deeper in pitch*

How to play

* Start the game, you should relax your eyes to see at a greater distance than your screen. You should enter the image and a 3d horizontal bar should appear.
* Rotate the bar with your left and right arrows.
* Planes will move toward you, there is a slanted slit. Orient the bar to go through
* Press space to take a break

The game starts slows so that you can take your time to see the effect.
If you miss the slit, it starts over. You can see your deepest score in the menu (space bar)

Help I can't see anything but noise

The game is hidden in the noise, you have to let your eyes get lazy. I added two kinds of help
1. squint hint : display to dots that can help you uncross your eyes. You should first see them double, then align the red and blue in the middle to see : red dot, mixed/superposed dots, blue dot.
2. Cheat mode : you see the depth map. Not funny but it might help you see what is hidden

I still can't see anything: some people can't see autostereogram. I am deeply sorry, you can play in cheat mode, but it's not a fun game.

Tools and Acknowledgement

The idea of using autostereogram comes from some work I did a year ago with a my colleague William.
All code was done on Unity, the game play is in C#. I used visual studio this year.
the shader part is rewritten in HLSL from the things I did a year ago, inspired by some of the youtube tutorial from The Art of Code and its work on shadertoy. In particular the hash function is probably taken directly from there.
The music theme is an old guitar riff I played for year to warm up. It was arranged on noteflight the score is on the github page