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[The Exile]

(or just straight up tell you to write stuff)

 

my dreams like having video game ideas. a lot of them are not actually all that creative, and some of them turn out to already exist, or be very similar to something that already exists (my personal favourites are a Gemfire 2, a Phantasy Star V for the Mega CD that looks suspiciously like screenshots I've seen of an attempt to give Phantasy Star IV upgraded graphics, and a very trippy Sonic game that involved collecting apples, battling fish and going into Sonic's dreams)

 

but sometimes I get some more original ideas. they're heavily influenced by stuff, but aren't pre-empted sequels to games or trippy fan games. the two I remember most vividly are:

 

- a game meant to be released on the Saturn, called 'Scribe!'. it's a rather upbeat solo action RPG with some action platformer elements - heavily inspired by Okami in style, I think - and the character is an apprentice scribe/librarian in a society with slightly better technology level than a traditional fantasy RPG (probably magic technology on a larger scale than normal, like in Golden Sun). he is unusually un-combat-focussed for an RPG main character but probably has some magic to defend himself.

 

- a PC game that was never given a name, and I really should decide on one at some point. it is a traditional turn-based RPG that looks and feels a lot like 'Cthulhu Saves The World'. the main character is Surtr from Norse mythology (makes about as much sense as Cthulhu being a main character, I guess...). the other party members are Dhaos from Tales of Phantasia, my EVE online character who is a laid-back and rather amoral asteroid miner, and a recurring OC who is a bit of a self-insert, acts a little more like an RPG main character than the others except that he's a defeatist who gets proven right a lot- in personality, a little like Ashton from Star Ocean 2. from what I've seen of the game, Surtr was drained of all his power and woke up lost on an unknown world. he was trying to level up by taking quests but every time someone gave him a quest, he failed it by setting fire to whatever or whoever he was hired to preserve.

 

I've actually written two 'Scribe!' backstory fics. I'm working on trying to turn the second idea into a workable story.  my main  problem is that, while I can sort of shoehorn the other two into the party, I can't for the life of me work out why Dhaos would want to join this band of hooligans, or why he'd be in the (otherwise original) setting in the first place.  it'd be cool to learn how to make games. they wouldn't have to be complicated games as I prefer the style of older games anyway. 

 

 

 

[oki_the_great]

I have dreams a lot about supernatural occurrences in my house, in my backyard, or even on my property in general and I remember several of them vividly. My mom tells me all the time about creepy experiences she's had over the years living there and several dreams she's had that were similar to mine, leading me to believe that maybe there's something more to my dreams than I would normally think. Lately I've been trying to dig up some family history to see if I can connect the dots, and I've been inspired to document my dreams or maybe turn them into short stories to publish around Halloween!

 

Once in a while I have dreams similar to what you've described and I get these cool ideas for plots for fanfiction or original games and stories from them, despite characters from several different fandoms being thrown together for whatever reason. I did try out game programming at my school but I didn't get very far with it and switched my major. You should try working more in depth with your ideas and perhaps you can work with a programmer to make your own game and ideas come to life!

[Ridel]

I have a lot of dreams involved around me just exploring weird or strange areas my mind creates. Like I once had a dream I was sitting in a pool relaxing while two huge skylines were above me that curved into the center of a white sky. The most vivid one I remember was when I was only 10 where I explored a snow covered island with a volcano that exploded with snow and whales and dolphins jumped through the ice on the water.

 

These dreams of strange locations have inspired me to draw the landscapes on paper, but unfortunately I'm not good at drawing so I think I'm going to try to translate these locations through music instead. I haven't gotten to work on any of them yet but once I get better at playing the Sax it will be the first thing I try to do with it.

[NiONS]

I find I'm either flying/high-leaping through different landscapes like my town or fighting things off with varying powers. I've had a lot of practice with flying and have become quite able to get myself in the right "lucid" mindset where I tell myself, "If I do this, this happens, 100%, for sure." And it does! It just took eleven years :|