DreamFeel

Against my better judgement I took a few days away from Uni work to lovingly finish the game.

The game now consists of an intro stage, introducing the singing concept and the story; the forest snow, whereby a boat goes down a river and two people talk; the caves, full of cave paintings, minimalist Glass-indebted piano and much more interested singing scales; and a final, short outro sequence to put a nice bow on the whole affair.

Besides creating the final sequence (the cavern being created early in the month, the starting tower mid-November), and a bit of polishing this latest period of work largely involved writing. Lots. I had all the research and lots of preparation done (building up over a long time), now I just had to put finger to key. Most often the backspace. I'm not even sure the slightly randomized text makes any kind of sense to anyone besides myself, it was largely written in the midnight hours, but that's half the fun! ;)

What I'd like to do: get feedback! Most of all I'd like to get the opinion of some people I trust and can see/understand what I'm going for. I also have a few more areas in mind; besides Intro/Outro each session could be a shuffle of five or so stages.

More importantly, I'd like to do more work on the core gameplay which is potentially a bit lacking at the moment: make the music interactive and playful with the player and make it more interesting and necessary to fly around with more 'grok'-able and interesting obstacles.

Firstly though I'm going to sit on it for a weeks as (besides being extremely busy with other projects) I'd like to get a bit of distance from it and look back.