Lucido
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This was my very first game jam, and decided to go in solo and participate in the compo! (The fact I need to be at work in a couple hours has nothing to do with it :D)
I ended up with a finished game, but an unpolished one at that.Sounds are missing and I didn't have too much time left to set up the actual puzzle or balance all mechanics.
A quick overview of the game:
You are a lucid dreamer, so you can control your dreams. One day you find yourself locked inside your apartment and can't leave. Every time you go to sleep you get to explore the dream world. If you look closely you can find a way to unlock your door in real life! You'll just have to trigger a deeper, more lucid dream. You can achieve this by earning money by being inside the dream world and spending that money on items that increase your "lucidity". As you increase your lucidity you will see the world change. You'll have to control how lucid your dreams are and make use of the chest at the middle of the world to get the correct items in the correct dream states.
I really didn't have the time anymore to add clear indicators so solving the puzzle is probably going to take some time!
As the puzzle is still very rough I will give a short hint for the first part of the puzzle, which hopefully makes the concept a bit clearer:
- With the lucid bar at 0 (top right), you should find a large rock with a circular hole in it that you can interact with (this gives you a hint what to look for next)
- When you wake up, you should be able to buy a yoga mat, this allows you to increase your lucid state ( you need to go back to sleep, feel free to explore some more!) and will arrive the next morning
- When your yoga mat arrives, interact with it and the meter in the top right will increase slightly
- Go back into the dream world and you will find the world has changed ever so slightly and there will be a key on the rock in front of you when you spawn in
- Try going back to the rock with the hole in it, this is now blocked off!
- Put the key in the chest, you need to now reduce you lucid state so the blockade despawns again - you can do this by eating a burger
- Hopefully the concept is clearer now; I wanted to add so many indicators but ran out of time :(
I ended up with a finished game, but an unpolished one at that.Sounds are missing and I didn't have too much time left to set up the actual puzzle or balance all mechanics.
A quick overview of the game:
You are a lucid dreamer, so you can control your dreams. One day you find yourself locked inside your apartment and can't leave. Every time you go to sleep you get to explore the dream world. If you look closely you can find a way to unlock your door in real life! You'll just have to trigger a deeper, more lucid dream. You can achieve this by earning money by being inside the dream world and spending that money on items that increase your "lucidity". As you increase your lucidity you will see the world change. You'll have to control how lucid your dreams are and make use of the chest at the middle of the world to get the correct items in the correct dream states.
I really didn't have the time anymore to add clear indicators so solving the puzzle is probably going to take some time!
Spoilers ahead
Don't read if you want to try and figure the first part out yourself!As the puzzle is still very rough I will give a short hint for the first part of the puzzle, which hopefully makes the concept a bit clearer:
- With the lucid bar at 0 (top right), you should find a large rock with a circular hole in it that you can interact with (this gives you a hint what to look for next)
- When you wake up, you should be able to buy a yoga mat, this allows you to increase your lucid state ( you need to go back to sleep, feel free to explore some more!) and will arrive the next morning
- When your yoga mat arrives, interact with it and the meter in the top right will increase slightly
- Go back into the dream world and you will find the world has changed ever so slightly and there will be a key on the rock in front of you when you spawn in
- Try going back to the rock with the hole in it, this is now blocked off!
- Put the key in the chest, you need to now reduce you lucid state so the blockade despawns again - you can do this by eating a burger
- Hopefully the concept is clearer now; I wanted to add so many indicators but ran out of time :(