It Began With The Whales - Lucid Dreams

It Began With The Whales - learn how to lucid dream and escape to the real world.

Set in dream land, each island is a different dream. Your whale companion helps you travel between islands. Inside the whale, you will find your way out.

Discover IBWW

IBWW is built in Unity, and works for PC and Android (coming soon!). The game is a 1st person simulator that incorporates elements suspected to help in triggering lucid dreams.

The game has a serene atmosphere meant to place the player in a relaxing mood, both with the music and with the gameplay.

• Psychedelic, a fever dream
• Incorporates actual lucid dream techniques, such as reality checks
• Ride flying whales between floating isles
• Go inside your whale
• Relaxing and zen meditative atmosphere
• No inventory - you only carry 1 item
• Minimal to no UI - immersive
• Chairs grow on trees and speakers grow in volcanos

Inspirations

Mechanics

• House Flipper
• Viscera Cleanup Detail

Graphics

• Paper Mario

Lucid Dreams and Dreams

• Superliminal
• Max Payne (dream sequences)

Inner workings

• influence the subconscious with the idea of the dream, while in a relaxed state
• perform repetitive reality checks, so it creates an automatism which you will perform inside the dream
• audio-visual cues to embed the idea of a dream inside your brain - messages of dreams appear everywhere
• a fish symbol to associate with the idea of a dream state
• sound puzzles to make you associate beats with the dream state

Over the years, there has been various research done on why video games trigger dreams, and some findings include the first person perspective and the ability to control a virtual character. Video games act by enhancing certain cognitive abilities developed in gamers. This experiment includes techniques specific to lucid dreams.

For the complete devlog follow: https://www.instagram.com/ibwwgame.

Keys

Action	Keyboard	Gamepad
Player
Move	WASD	left stick
Look	Mouse	right stick
Sprint	LShift	LTrigger
Jump	Space	A
Interact	E/Mouse	RTrigger
Scan	F	B
Reality Check	Q	X
Rotate Item	R	Y
Toggle UI	Enter	Start
Whale
Move	WASD	left stick
Look	Mouse	right stick
Sprint	LShift	LTrigger
Park	E/Mouse	RTrigger
Lucid Dream Puzzle
Interact	Q	X
Back	F	B