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To Dream of Dancing - Free Prototype

A topic by Anneric created Jun 25, 2023 Views: 120
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Play the game on itch - HERE


You will spend your time dancing 

If you follow chaotic sounds you will dream of flying
If you follow the sounds of Loons you will dream of the forest
and if you follow the piano you will dream of the beach


To Dream of Dancing is an experimental prototype I made to try and help me strengthen my ability to pay attention to things, and to hopefully help me hold my attention on the things I choose, and withhold my attention from distressing or intrusive thoughts.

You can read about that on the game page, but the broad strokes are that TDoD is based on the Attention Training Technique where you try to hold you attention on different sounds playing simultaneously.

In TDoD you have multiple sounds competing for your attention that play each time you select a dance move, so you have to listen carefully and remember the sequence of moves (or choreography) you need to use to keep hearing the sound you have chosen to follow.

Once you follow a sound three times, or in other words you complete a combo three times, you will arrive at an ending. In a full release these endings would have new gameplay that is fleshed out more, but as it stands in this prototype you'll get a cinematic, and some short prototype gameplay like flying, or free dancing, and then you'll recursively go back and begin a new game.

You're in a recursive spiritual maze and the only way out is to dance

This is the first game I have released. I was hoping if people liked it they would let me know. I thought I shouldn't spend more time on developing this idea further if people didn't like what I made. 

I'm planning on releasing a new vignette prototype of my ideas every couple of months for the next year or so, since I've spent a lot of time developing many ideas to roughly this level of completion. 

Thank you for your time!