more computer game dreams
Feb. 2nd, 2007 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erratioI think possibly I game too much? At least that's what my subconscious seems to be telling me :P But it's cool how every time I have one of these dreams it's a new game/scenario that I've never seen before.
So this game.. where do I start? You start with a fixed number of points and the aim is to get to your exit in the level with the greatest number of points. Each player has their own exit which they are heading towards. Every time you fall off something, or trip over an obstacle, or something like that, you lose some points. You can see how many points are being deducted because large cartoonish numbers appear over your head every time you gain or lose points.
Now, the game world is mostly like the real world except for one detail: You can change the world using your mind. Kind of like the Dream World in the Wheel of Time series, if you're familiar with that. That is, you can create a steed to ride if you want but it only lasts as long as you can maintain the concentration needed to sustain it. And this is where competition with the other players comes in. You can gain points and make the other player lose points by distracting them. For example, in the dream I was riding a steed or climbing a tree or something like that when my opponent started taunting me, telling me not to imagine the horse/tree/whatever to start disappearing. And so of course, like imagining a pink elephant, the surface beneath my hands immediately started disintegrating. But it lasted just long enough for me to reach the exit anyway, luckily for me. Anyway, every time you successfully do something to disadvantage the other player you gain some points.
That's pretty much all the info my dream gave me. I assume that there are also wild animals wandering around that need to be dealt with in some fashion, and the like. And it's probably Quake deathmatch style, where first person to win X rounds wins overall. Or else you tally the points up over consecutive matches and get an overall winner.
So this game.. where do I start? You start with a fixed number of points and the aim is to get to your exit in the level with the greatest number of points. Each player has their own exit which they are heading towards. Every time you fall off something, or trip over an obstacle, or something like that, you lose some points. You can see how many points are being deducted because large cartoonish numbers appear over your head every time you gain or lose points.
Now, the game world is mostly like the real world except for one detail: You can change the world using your mind. Kind of like the Dream World in the Wheel of Time series, if you're familiar with that. That is, you can create a steed to ride if you want but it only lasts as long as you can maintain the concentration needed to sustain it. And this is where competition with the other players comes in. You can gain points and make the other player lose points by distracting them. For example, in the dream I was riding a steed or climbing a tree or something like that when my opponent started taunting me, telling me not to imagine the horse/tree/whatever to start disappearing. And so of course, like imagining a pink elephant, the surface beneath my hands immediately started disintegrating. But it lasted just long enough for me to reach the exit anyway, luckily for me. Anyway, every time you successfully do something to disadvantage the other player you gain some points.
That's pretty much all the info my dream gave me. I assume that there are also wild animals wandering around that need to be dealt with in some fashion, and the like. And it's probably Quake deathmatch style, where first person to win X rounds wins overall. Or else you tally the points up over consecutive matches and get an overall winner.
