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maandag 6 oktober 2008
maandag 16 juni 2008
Finished
I have finished my proof of concept!!!!
PLAY LUCIDWORLD
This is a short explanation of the concept:
basic_concept.doc
basic_concept.txt
PLAY LUCIDWORLD
This is a short explanation of the concept:
basic_concept.doc
basic_concept.txt
donderdag 29 mei 2008
Test 7.2
It's going pretty well I think. In this test I've removed some bugs, added some animations and perfected the code.
vrijdag 23 mei 2008
Test 7
I'm currently working on getting some gameplay into the game. Therefore i've pinned the character to the ground. (for my own pleasure I've added some animations).
Here's a first taste of the UI. In a few days I will have the first type of gameplay ready: collecting credits to work up your flying skill.
(There's a littlte bug in this one, you'll see. It has something to do with turnig it into a dcr file. Click here for the .exe)
Here's a first taste of the UI. In a few days I will have the first type of gameplay ready: collecting credits to work up your flying skill.
(There's a littlte bug in this one, you'll see. It has something to do with turnig it into a dcr file. Click here for the .exe)
woensdag 7 mei 2008
Test 6.2
I've updated the last test woth the folowing things:
-It's random
-The images are tagbased (I am very happy with this. I can now easely say for each type of picture what kind of pictures can stick to it)
-There's 'land' and 'underworld'.
-It's random
-The images are tagbased (I am very happy with this. I can now easely say for each type of picture what kind of pictures can stick to it)
-There's 'land' and 'underworld'.
maandag 28 april 2008
test 6
It's been a little while since i've posted something, but I haven't been doing nothing.
Currently I'm working on a promotional trailer for lucid mobile (an applet that helps you get lucid dreams, the concept for this can be found on this blog).
And I have also made a test which will enable me to make semi-procedural and semi 3D environments. The three layers can make combinations (e.g if every layer has four possible images then the total amount of combinations is 64).
The test has a theatrical intro.
(by the way, this test isn't random yet)
maandag 14 april 2008
donderdag 10 april 2008
woensdag 9 april 2008
Test 5.5
I think I've done it this time. Just try it, fly around, fly down to the ground, and in the ground. I'm sorry for the horrible textures and massive repeating. This will be fixed in a month or two. I have to find an artteam to make nice pictures. interested? -> leave a comment with your email adres.
it's 20MB
dinsdag 8 april 2008
crap
crap crap... It seems, i whas wrong with my last post. The puzzle still isn't finished and the test also doesn't seem to work on other computers....
maandag 7 april 2008
happy
YES YES YES! I have finally done it. It will probably look like there hasn't changed very much, but the making of the next test was horrible. An extreme puzzle.
(this test as been removed, because it sucked)
if you go up you will find air, if you go down you will find ground.
(this test as been removed, because it sucked)
crazy
eventually the game might end up looking something like this:
http://www.feanor.net/z0r/shock/superZOOM.swf
http://www.feanor.net/z0r/shock/superZOOM.swf
maandag 31 maart 2008
Test
For the next test i've created a world with both horizontal and vertical movement.
For now I've only used clouds and stuff like that. I will add land, sea and other things later, but first I want to be able to get images from a external folder so I can add images external and i don't have to put them into the source itself. This makes it easier later on to make the graphics nicer and to put in more graphics. It also works better for making categories of worldtypes (land, sea, air, etc).
zaterdag 29 maart 2008
test
I've added seaworld to the last test.
When you approach a shore the computer knows that the following sprites will have to be sea sprites (and the other way around).
When you approach a shore the computer knows that the following sprites will have to be sea sprites (and the other way around).
donderdag 27 maart 2008
dinsdag 25 maart 2008
dinsdag 11 maart 2008
Interesting?
some guys have started the lucidgaming group and claim to have found a way how you can play games in your dreams. They are currently beta testing tic-tac-toe...
http://www.dirtymechanism.com/lgg/aboutlgg.htm
http://www.dirtymechanism.com/lgg/aboutlgg.htm
Idea for worldbuild and user generated content
Ok, this could get a bit vague, but I will try to explain it as clear as possible:
Keep the grid system in mind. Untill now I have gone through a series of thought on how the world is going to be build:
1. First I thought that every gridsquare would be random until you approach/enter it. This meant that every grid was different. There was no cohesion.
2. Then I thought that every gridsquare should be more static when you gave it more attention, but still there was no cohesion. (see test 02).
3. Then I decided there should be intermediate forms between two (or more) random gridsquares. (see test 03)
But if you think from the perspective of 'gridsquare A' then the surounding random gridsquares (B, C and D) should only be random within a range of things that in somehow relate to 'gridsquare A'.
This could be called cognition, because the computer would only link things that relate to eachother. This is also what happens when you dream. In this way very strange things can be rendered. Example: in you dream your dad is also your teacher, because they are both a man.
So, for this you would need a giant database in wich everything has information of things that relate to itself. You could think of tagbased databases like flickr.com.
Some good friends of mine are currently working on a database called live.on.line. This system is a user generated symantic web of information.
In this system the user can travel through the information, generate new links and vote if they are correct or not. The system can also calculate which things are probably connected to eachother.
This 'thinking' can be seen as dreaming and the user response (the voting) as a dubble check to see if a connection is right.
This web of information can be traveld in billions of ways. It is multilinear, but the travel itself is always linear and from the perspective of the user...
-to be continued-
Keep the grid system in mind. Untill now I have gone through a series of thought on how the world is going to be build:
1. First I thought that every gridsquare would be random until you approach/enter it. This meant that every grid was different. There was no cohesion.
2. Then I thought that every gridsquare should be more static when you gave it more attention, but still there was no cohesion. (see test 02).
3. Then I decided there should be intermediate forms between two (or more) random gridsquares. (see test 03)
But if you think from the perspective of 'gridsquare A' then the surounding random gridsquares (B, C and D) should only be random within a range of things that in somehow relate to 'gridsquare A'.
This could be called cognition, because the computer would only link things that relate to eachother. This is also what happens when you dream. In this way very strange things can be rendered. Example: in you dream your dad is also your teacher, because they are both a man.
So, for this you would need a giant database in wich everything has information of things that relate to itself. You could think of tagbased databases like flickr.com.
Some good friends of mine are currently working on a database called live.on.line. This system is a user generated symantic web of information.
In this system the user can travel through the information, generate new links and vote if they are correct or not. The system can also calculate which things are probably connected to eachother.
This 'thinking' can be seen as dreaming and the user response (the voting) as a dubble check to see if a connection is right.
This web of information can be traveld in billions of ways. It is multilinear, but the travel itself is always linear and from the perspective of the user...
-to be continued-
Test 03
I've made a little test based on the last test. In this test I tried to make a more consistent random world. The outer 4 squares are a random color, the rest is an average between these colors.
I you give attention to the 4 outer squares they will become more static.
Sadly enough I had to program each square appart. The next test will be totally generic I hope, so I can build a bigger world, or a world that expands when you move to the edge.
I you give attention to the 4 outer squares they will become more static.
Sadly enough I had to program each square appart. The next test will be totally generic I hope, so I can build a bigger world, or a world that expands when you move to the edge.
dinsdag 4 maart 2008
Rogue
Rogue: a key and lock game that creates random dungeons with random enemies. The player doesn't have any inluence on the game world. He/she can only explore. Old games suck, but actually they rule.
maandag 3 maart 2008
Mojoworld
mmm, mojoworld's procedural generated landscapes are nice, but not very helpfull. One thing is certain: These types of procedural landscapes are too complicated for a realtime rendering... So I wonder what the current limits are.
Key and Lock Puzzles in procedural gameplay.
While researching through the references of the Case Study on Charbitat I found this paper. It is great. it describes how key and lock puzzles can be played in a procedural game world.
" Abstract:
This project is an attempt to model and simulate key and lock puzzles in the style of Shigeru Miyamoto games, specifically the Zelda and Metroid series. Much of the gameplay in these titles is oriented around encountering obstacles, and then locating an item that allows the player to circumvent the obstacle. The project is built on top of Charbitat, another project built on Unreal Tournament 2004, which produces procedurally generated space in response to the player's actions. " (source)
" Abstract:
This project is an attempt to model and simulate key and lock puzzles in the style of Shigeru Miyamoto games, specifically the Zelda and Metroid series. Much of the gameplay in these titles is oriented around encountering obstacles, and then locating an item that allows the player to circumvent the obstacle. The project is built on top of Charbitat, another project built on Unreal Tournament 2004, which produces procedurally generated space in response to the player's actions. " (source)
woensdag 27 februari 2008
Mojoworld
I did some ressearch on mojoworld and it seems a great technology to do some tests. Here's a short movie a found. Looks very dreamy.
Idea for braintraining excercises
Last night I came up with an idea for the brain training part of my game concept:
At first I had the idea of doing this exercises with a computer program on your PC, but I got inspired by a little game on my mobile phone called 'braintraining'. It is a 'Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training' copy.
This game gives you daily exercises that can only be played once a day. It also keeps track of your progress and saves the data in a calender.
I would like to use this kind of program for a few things:
-Training (reality check, prospective memory)
-Keeping track of ones sleeping schedule (by entering when you go to bed and with an alarm function which wakes you up. Also the use of the snooze function can be tracked.
-Using the sleeping schedule data for the stimulation of ‘mnemonic induction of lucid dreaming’.
-Giving the user the option to record his dreams (with sound or text) immediately after waking up.
The data of the program will be user specific. The program will generate codes(passwords) based on the user information and the progress he/she made. These codes can then be entered in the PC game to unlock new abilities.
In this way your mobile phone will keep you aware of the game and your dreams and will be a tool to help you get lucid dreams.
I think that this program should also work as a stand-alone program. People can download/order and play it. This could work as an advertisement for the game.
Kawashimas Brain Training:
At first I had the idea of doing this exercises with a computer program on your PC, but I got inspired by a little game on my mobile phone called 'braintraining'. It is a 'Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training' copy.
This game gives you daily exercises that can only be played once a day. It also keeps track of your progress and saves the data in a calender.
I would like to use this kind of program for a few things:
-Training (reality check, prospective memory)
-Keeping track of ones sleeping schedule (by entering when you go to bed and with an alarm function which wakes you up. Also the use of the snooze function can be tracked.
-Using the sleeping schedule data for the stimulation of ‘mnemonic induction of lucid dreaming’.
-Giving the user the option to record his dreams (with sound or text) immediately after waking up.
The data of the program will be user specific. The program will generate codes(passwords) based on the user information and the progress he/she made. These codes can then be entered in the PC game to unlock new abilities.
In this way your mobile phone will keep you aware of the game and your dreams and will be a tool to help you get lucid dreams.
I think that this program should also work as a stand-alone program. People can download/order and play it. This could work as an advertisement for the game.
Kawashimas Brain Training:
maandag 25 februari 2008
Connection
These are two schematics. The first is a schematic of how a dream is build. The second is an adaptation of how a game could use the first schematic.
dinsdag 19 februari 2008
idea for controlling dreamspace
I have been pondering about how the player can influence his/her dreamworld. If the player has achieved a totaly lucid state (so, if the player has 'total control') he/she might click on an item - let's say a tree- and move a slider. This slider will influence the total of trees on that particular grid square.
The player should also have the ability to move the items.
The player should also have the ability to move the items.
zondag 17 februari 2008
Test
As promised, a little test. a random world that is more static near you:
Note: if you give a certain spot more attention it is more likely to stay that color. Try making the 'world' as red as possible.
Note: if you give a certain spot more attention it is more likely to stay that color. Try making the 'world' as red as possible.
vrijdag 15 februari 2008
Concept update
Recently I have been working on my concept. there are a few things that I've decided.
The game will consist of two main elements:
1. A virtual environment that simulates a dream environment. This environment will consist of static, semi-static and random elements that are influenced by the player.
2. 'Braintraining'-like exercises that will influence the players influence in the virtual environment.
The virtual environment:
This part can be seperated in a few elements; The world structure, the players influence on the world structure, and the actual gameplay.
The worldstructure is the basis for the other two. The world is build up on a grid. every square of the grid is build up randomly. The square with the current location of the player is semi-static. If the player moves to a new grid this grid will become semi-static. The previous post with the test shows a possible way how this can be done. All the items and NPC's on the grid square will work in the same way.
The more attention a player gives to a certain place or object, the more likely it is to stay static.
The player will have to search for certain places to do a mission. The mission square will be at a certain distance. this distance is measured in 'number of grid squares passed' and not in an actual distance (like metres or miles). In this way it is possible a player returns to the starting grid to perform the mission. Of course this square will look totaly different. The mission square is also placed random.
If a player succeeds in doing the mission this mission square is more likely to stay in this place.
The excercises
There are a few different types of exercises that will be described here. These exercises will give the player more power. This will result in a less random world. Places that need to be reaced can eventually be reached directly, objects will stay static for a longer time, etc. also the player will gain other powers like flying, walking trough walls, creating elements of the world, shaping the worldmap, etc.
I will try to make a little test that simulates the worldstructure, so this can be tested and explained easier.
The game will consist of two main elements:
1. A virtual environment that simulates a dream environment. This environment will consist of static, semi-static and random elements that are influenced by the player.
2. 'Braintraining'-like exercises that will influence the players influence in the virtual environment.
The virtual environment:
This part can be seperated in a few elements; The world structure, the players influence on the world structure, and the actual gameplay.
The worldstructure is the basis for the other two. The world is build up on a grid. every square of the grid is build up randomly. The square with the current location of the player is semi-static. If the player moves to a new grid this grid will become semi-static. The previous post with the test shows a possible way how this can be done. All the items and NPC's on the grid square will work in the same way.
The more attention a player gives to a certain place or object, the more likely it is to stay static.
The player will have to search for certain places to do a mission. The mission square will be at a certain distance. this distance is measured in 'number of grid squares passed' and not in an actual distance (like metres or miles). In this way it is possible a player returns to the starting grid to perform the mission. Of course this square will look totaly different. The mission square is also placed random.
If a player succeeds in doing the mission this mission square is more likely to stay in this place.
The excercises
There are a few different types of exercises that will be described here. These exercises will give the player more power. This will result in a less random world. Places that need to be reaced can eventually be reached directly, objects will stay static for a longer time, etc. also the player will gain other powers like flying, walking trough walls, creating elements of the world, shaping the worldmap, etc.
I will try to make a little test that simulates the worldstructure, so this can be tested and explained easier.
Test
I've made a simple test. I tried to recreate what happens if you have a random shape that gets more static when you approach it. Imagine a world that consists of these types of shapes.
In my opinion everything in a dream is random untill you look at it. It is a bit as with quantum mechanics. An electron decides what form it takes at the moment it has interaction.
In my opinion everything in a dream is random untill you look at it. It is a bit as with quantum mechanics. An electron decides what form it takes at the moment it has interaction.
maandag 11 februari 2008
progress
I've made an RSS feed available for this blog:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Lucidgame
So it's easier to keep track of my progress
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Lucidgame
So it's easier to keep track of my progress
donderdag 7 februari 2008
woensdag 6 februari 2008
Progress
The best thing I can do at this point is to treat a lucid dream and all its components as a game or game features. There are a few different aspects that can be used:
-The techniques for getting a lucid dream. (Can this be implemented in a certain gameplay?)
-The functioning of dreams. (Can this aspect of the human brain be simulated by a computer?)
I already have many thoughts on this and I will try to summarize these over here.
Every time I have something new I will update the file and post to this blog.
-The techniques for getting a lucid dream. (Can this be implemented in a certain gameplay?)
-The functioning of dreams. (Can this aspect of the human brain be simulated by a computer?)
I already have many thoughts on this and I will try to summarize these over here.
Every time I have something new I will update the file and post to this blog.
More inspiration
This is an article from Jayne Gackenbach. She has studied the effects of video game play on nighttime dream. She discovered that people that play 3D games are more likely to get lucid dreams. This is also described in my paper 'lucid dreaming and game design'.
dinsdag 5 februari 2008
More inspiration
Will right talks about interesting things (video 2/6). Procedural design, user generated content, measurable user trends.
video 3/6:
video 3/6:
More inspiration
This is brilliant!!! I've found a paper on procedural game design that exactly covers the questions and problems I have like 'how to integrate play and world creation?'.
" In order to integrate space generation and gameplay, one has to become part of the other. Charbitat is an experimental single-player game prototype in which the player creates the world as s/he plays through it. There are no points to win or records to break but the gameplay is a goaldriven exploration and generation of space."It describes a game called 'Charbitat' in which the player creates the gameworld while being there.
Screenshot from 'Charbitat' and tech
More inspiration
This is a scene from 'Waking Life'. It's a realistic view on lucid dreams. Not a stupid spiritual one
More inspiration
Apparently there's a kind of instrument called 'the dream machine'. It produces light flickerings that match the frequency of the alpha waves in your head. This movie should have the same effect:
Instructions
Movie
There's also a program that is called i-doser that stimulates the same alpha waves with sound that slowly interferes. The program clames to be able to reproduce the effects of several types of drugs, lucid dreams and other halucogenic states of the mind.
Instructions
Movie
There's also a program that is called i-doser that stimulates the same alpha waves with sound that slowly interferes. The program clames to be able to reproduce the effects of several types of drugs, lucid dreams and other halucogenic states of the mind.
Programs
Here are some programs that I could use to create sculpt my project.
-Vue 6 (see Trailer)
-Processing (see exhibition)
-Vue 6 (see Trailer)
-Processing (see exhibition)
More inspiration
www.dream-recorder.com/ - A program that uses a webca to detect movement during sleep(REM-Sleep) wakes you up and records anything you tell it (supposedly dreams)
www.wefeelfine.org/ - A cool site that harvests feelings from web logs and shows them as little bouncing dots.
artport.whitney.org/commissions/thedumpster/ - same concept but about 'breaking up'.
Kronos Projector - A great video/image vj tool thing. play with time and space.
www.youtube.com hyve search. It is a virtual world with endless input taken from places of your interest.
www.stumbleupon.com This site suggests nice sites of your interest. you can say if you like it or not. The more you use it the more suitable sites you will get (based on your own input and thousands of other users)
www.Last.fm - same sort of project but for music.
web3.highfeather.com A great project of a friend of mine. It's a symantic web system based onm users input, moderating, voting. It works great.
www.flickr.com A great photo site/ tag based database.
www.wefeelfine.org/ - A cool site that harvests feelings from web logs and shows them as little bouncing dots.
artport.whitney.org/commissions/thedumpster/ - same concept but about 'breaking up'.
Kronos Projector - A great video/image vj tool thing. play with time and space.
www.youtube.com hyve search. It is a virtual world with endless input taken from places of your interest.
www.stumbleupon.com This site suggests nice sites of your interest. you can say if you like it or not. The more you use it the more suitable sites you will get (based on your own input and thousands of other users)
www.Last.fm - same sort of project but for music.
web3.highfeather.com A great project of a friend of mine. It's a symantic web system based onm users input, moderating, voting. It works great.
www.flickr.com A great photo site/ tag based database.
vrijdag 1 februari 2008
Concept
Untill now I only have a vague Idea of what i want to make. Here I will describe what I've come up with:
(Work)title: Lucid
Product: Game
Genre: 3D adventure sim
Abstract:
The game 'Lucid' is meant to learn people about lucid dreams. In a lucid dream one has - to a certain extend- control over a dream. This can be trained. 'Lucid' will be designed to train people having these kinds of dreams.
The gameworld will be inspired by the seemingly randomness of dreams. Therefore it will be a procedural design which will be influenced by the playeres actions and movements. The longer the player plays the game, the more clear and static the game will become. In this way the player will construct his or her dreamworld in a very intuitive way.
Inspiration
www.electricsheep.org "Do androids dream of electric sheep'
This is a program (a screensaver) that creates random moving images from a 'DNA' code. A user can say if he likes an image and this particular DNA code will then make chilldren with other liked DNA codes (from other users). In this way the computers share a 'collective dream' that gets prettier and clearer all the time.
Kick-off
This blog will be used by me to log my process of the project I am currently working on. This project is the last one I am supposed to do for my study Design for Virtual Theatre and Games.
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