{"author_link":"\/author\/agentparsec\/","author_name":"AgentParsec","author_uid":"12468","comments":[{"author_name":"Fanatrick","author_uid":"39646","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:42am","epoch":1408937820,"text":"Cool concept, however it's 21mB in size D:"},{"author_name":"lucidsheep","author_uid":"41822","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:46am","epoch":1408938060,"text":"Great idea! Just some glitches in the dream world (sometimes you wake up as soon as you fall asleep). I love how the worlds merge when the stress bar fills up!"},{"author_name":"CogentInvalid","author_uid":"22583","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:47am","epoch":1408938120,"text":"I really liked the interplay between the awake and dream worlds, and the ways each of them affected the sleep and stress meters. The dynamic music was good, too."},{"author_name":"Jaloko","author_uid":"37180","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:47am","epoch":1408938120,"text":"I Like the usage of parallax and great theme incorporation."},{"author_name":"nintendoeats","author_uid":"22819","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:49am","epoch":1408938240,"text":"As designed, this game involves a lot of waiting. Get to ledge, wait to fall asleep, flip switch, wait, wake up etc etc. Then I died...didn't want to wait again.\r\rNice music, good production values."},{"author_name":"AgentParsec","author_uid":"12468","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:50am","epoch":1408938300,"text":"@lucidsheep - It's not a glitch; you wake up as soon as your energy recharges, so if you force yourself to go to sleep while your energy is almost full, it will wake you up immediately. Jump around a bit to burn off some energy first and you'll be fine."},{"author_name":"geekygenius","author_uid":"6529","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:51am","epoch":1408938360,"text":"Wow, I don't ever want to sleep too stressed out irl now. That shit is creepy."},{"author_name":"someone9999","author_uid":"6703","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:57am","epoch":1408938720,"text":"Good game! It took me a second to figure out how to get past the second jump and that I needed to use the dream world, but once I got a hang of the mechanics, it was pretty cool.\r\rThe audio in the game is awesome. I like how it changes based on stress level and whether or not you are in the dream world."},{"author_name":"HuntTheWumpus","author_uid":"30702","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:59am","epoch":1408938840,"text":"Woo. parallax scrolling :D nice idea of switching between two worlds and solving puzzles."},{"author_name":"AgentParsec","author_uid":"12468","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:00am","epoch":1408938900,"text":"@nintendoeats - If you press 'x', it makes you fall asleep immediately, at the cost of some additional stress."},{"author_name":"ENDESGA","author_uid":"19270","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:55am","epoch":1408942200,"text":"11\/10 needs more parallaxes -IGN"},{"author_name":"tbamberg","author_uid":"40495","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:35am","epoch":1408944600,"text":"nice background ;)"},{"author_name":"jprogman","author_uid":"15225","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 4:22am","epoch":1409026620,"text":"Lots of ominousness, specially when stressed. Definitely adds points to mood. Although, with the game's slight difficulty, there should be a checkpoint at round 2. I get stressed to restart the entire game again. :(\rAlso, SHIFT key for jump isn't friendly on a Windows computer due to the "Sticky Key" feature. Just to let you know. Very nice game overall! Now, I must sleep...zzz"},{"author_name":"Resonious","author_uid":"38940","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 2:37am","epoch":1409106720,"text":"Pretty cool game. The idea definitely has potential."},{"author_name":"liquidminduk","author_uid":"37631","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 7:31am","epoch":1409124360,"text":"A little slow to download for me, but overall nice and clean level design, parallax works well to add depth. Great game overall"},{"author_name":"Mekuri","author_uid":"20130","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 2:23pm","epoch":1409149080,"text":"Nice idea- A bit buggy at times, it even crashed once for me- But worked fine after that. I like how the dreamworld and realworld merges when stress is high. I could've been without the yawn animation everytime I switched back and forth, but that is being a bit nit picky :P"},{"author_name":"samooJAM","author_uid":"11043","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 8:01pm","epoch":1409169360,"text":"The controls felt a bit stiff. Transition between worlds could be faster too. Good points from innovation and theme :)"},{"author_name":"Tanser","author_uid":"27381","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 6:32am","epoch":1409552820,"text":"Lovely idea, lovely executed! Only flaw was that the character was so slow when in the normal world...\rIncredible for a compo, good job!"},{"author_name":"Dietrich Epp","author_uid":"7606","time":"Sep 2, 2014 @ 1:20am","epoch":1409620500,"text":"The way the dream world "leaks" is amazing, I love it. However, it is very frustrating to fail on level 2 and get booted back to level 1, especially if I just did something stupid like miss the first jump!"},{"author_name":"Logan","author_uid":"12883","time":"Sep 3, 2014 @ 3:22am","epoch":1409714220,"text":"It's a pretty neat concept. I got a little freaked out just from reading your gameplay description, heh... I really liked how different the dream world felt once the stress level started rising. You pulled off a very nice transition between a happy, ethereal rest and... something very wrong, and very dire. The music for it was most excellently done.\r\rUnfortunately the platforming itself was a tad buggy. I stopped after missing the same jump a second time because for some reason it didn't register the key press (or something). I really liked what I played of it, though."},{"author_name":"Tosic","author_uid":"35464","time":"Sep 9, 2014 @ 5:56pm","epoch":1410285060,"text":"Amazing sounds and I like the idea, pursue it, of course, I want to see some more! :D"},{"author_name":"mrspeaker","author_uid":"9199","time":"Sep 14, 2014 @ 8:02pm","epoch":1410724620,"text":"awww, this looks really cool - but I don't have Unity. I wish you had of exported it to the web player!"},{"author_name":"AgentParsec","author_uid":"12468","time":"Sep 14, 2014 @ 9:00pm","epoch":1410728100,"text":"@mrspeaker - Just the source requires Unity, the Windows export doesn't need it to run. Also, I didn't do the web player export because it was buggy."},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Sep 15, 2014 @ 11:28pm","epoch":1410823380,"text":"Cool concept! I included it in part 28 of my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) http:\/\/youtu.be\/Hmt93jxkWGQ"}],"images":["ld30\/12468-94030c6d085760ecfb4adce7efb6a184.jpg","ld30\/12468-8eaca648216e682a800b8f7ac21dc426.jpg","ld30\/12468-74a49a244cc879e15a094b10f96bfc85.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.parsecproductions.net\/games\/dreamshift.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.parsecproductions.net\/games\/dreamshift_source.zip","text":"Source (Unity)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"17777","g_author":"12468","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"17806","g_title":"Dreamshift","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"536","g_commentcount":"24","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/12468-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/12468-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/12468-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"In Dreamshift, you must guide our exhausted hero to the doorway across the level. (Arrow keys to move, Shift to jump, Z to toggle switches or use the exit.) His energy drops quickly and he is unable to jump when his energy is low. His stress also builds, but very slowly.\r\n\r\nWhen his energy runs out, he falls asleep. In the dream world, he can fly and recover his stress and energy. If his energy completely refills, he wakes up again. Taking damage in the dream world, however, wakes him up immediately and causes extra stress.\r\n\r\nYou can force him to fall asleep (or force him to wake up, if he's near his 'body') by pressing 'x', but it will cause extra stress doing it this way.\r\n\r\nThe higher your stress gets, the more miasma will appear in the dream world and the more shades they will spawn. If your stress level gets too high, they will manifest in the real world, and are deadly to you!\r\n\r\n(There are only two levels in the game currently; I may take the time to make more and add extra elements to the game if the rest of you think it's worth pursuing.)","title":"Dreamshift"}