paralell dimention FPS

had one of my crazy dreams again
the core plot revovled around a group engaged in some form of fps but they wernt allowed to harm any bystanders and as it was from my recolection some form of cruise ship interior bystanders were always in the way

i remember falling down a wide hole that i knew would lead to a fatal respawning drop but i survived with little or no damage to my health bar but i found on trying to get back to the surface action i passed through a black tinted portal and the colours got altered

this time instead of killing my fellow fps'ers the crew and passengers were fair gaim till falling back into normal game space
any respawned passengers remembered getting killed (even in a different dimension) and took offence but you still couldnt use deadly force
yet i found myself running into more and more portal each one different from the last

part of my brain when i woke up told me i wasnt shooting the passengers as such but something inside them
what i cant remember
alien races
disease
all that is bad about people

sorry for killing you in that other dimension with that bazooka but your breast cancer has gone now

That's a really cool idea
(/me phones EA games.)

another example

you can only harm the cyborg ships crew when passing through the portal that shows them as cyborgs other wise your shots are as effective as when in normal space and harmfull only to ofther fps'ers

sounds kind of like in "lord of the rings" when they put the ring on and see the spirit version of the real world.

There's actually a set of goggles you can put on in Warcraft that let you see ghosts and fight them, it's looks really strange to anyone else because you appear to be fighting thin air.

it was only one of my many crazy dreams ... one i remembered enough to write down (i just chose here cos its game relevant)

the android crew didnt happen but there were more than one type of dimension portal
i woke up after being dragged down by a 'normal' person after finding a newly opened portal that i had almost made it into ... he was rather p**sed off that i had shot him point blank in the head in the ball room
hell i even walked past 5 people and casually (like the sociopath i am) capped them all in the head ... funny thing is no one died or suffered head trauma ... so perhaps this is where the you cant harm passengers in this realm thought came into it

if anyone wants to make a game out of this dream go ahead

Take less LSD.

I say take more LSD, it's ideas like this that lead to games like Spore and Little Big Planet, also stuff like the ideas in Timeshift and Blinx sweeper of TIme. Not all great games but good ideas all the same.
I keep thinking about designing some kinf of parallel universe / time travel game, but then it gets far too complex.

That sounds pretty cool.

My dreams are always crazy, but i never get any genious out of them. One time i had a dream i was spider man and i was stuck in a 50 foot deep pool. Then my webs stopped working and i was sad..
No joke. Really happened.



I had an idea for a game in which you are a hitman from the near future, that does hits from different time periods. With all his modern weapons, and maybe a choice of what he wants to bring, and when and how he wants to do it. It seems like an ok idea, but i think in the end it would be too easy for people to win.
Come on, modern uzi versus old time muskets?
Not even a challenge.

time travel stuff just sucks
kill hitler before ww2
no ww2
no need to go back and kill hitler
hitler alive
ww2

kill john and or sarah connor (before johns born)
no john connor to lead against the terminators
terminators dont need to go back and kill him cos hes not a threat

on the more or less lsd
i was sober and dont take anything stronger than caffeine in coke or coffee (unless drinking but i hadnt been)

last night however i was drinking and had a crazy dream that i can work on as a story
it was vivid for sometime after i awoke but i fell asleep againi almost forgot about it till i had a vivid flash to the end of it then i kinda remembered most of it in reverse
now all i got to do is jot down what i remember and fill in the rest