Stop Daydreaming!! Brackey's Game Jam

Stop Daydreaming!!:

This game stems from the idea of the Theme from Brackey's Game Jam, which was IT IS NOT REAL

First Concepts:

I had many ideas at the start and some of them were kind of interesting so here they are:

• You’re a watcher looking for nuclear missiles needing to detect fake and real signals
  
• You’re on an LSD trip needing to find your way home without hurting yourself or anyone else
• You’re on a drug trip having the best time of your life with your fictional as it slowly fades away and you’re waking up at the side of the street crying. Screams of “It is not real” getting louder and louder.
• You’re in sleep paralysis and do stuff
• You’re driving in a car to your boring 9/5 job imagining this magical platformer where you are the hero. Having to handle the real driving and surviving inside of your imagination (handling car with mouse movements and game with keys)

The last one is the one I made :)

Problems:

I wanted to make it an isometric racing game with the daydream at the top, but since I'm not talented enough to make good looking graphics myself, I had to use the ones that I found online and they were top down ones.

Another thing I struggled with is making the border of the daydream. I am using godot and at this point they only have rectangular viewports, and just having a rectangle and say "it's a daydream trust me", wasn't enough so I played around and createad a bubble of sorts with thick borders to hide the ractangular shape of the viewport.

After looking like complete shit I played around with the bubble shape added 3 million filters on top of it and just like the final version that looked kinda ok emerged.

Steering:

One thing that I thought about was does the car follow the mouse or the steering wheel?

A the end I decoded for the later since, first it makes much more sense and secondly it prevents the player from just pointing their mouse to a specific place and let the car go there.

At the end I'm really happy how it turned out and I hope other people atleast somewhat agree with it :)

If you read this far and you found it kinda interesting, go play the game, I'd really appreciate a follow and/or a comment if you liked/hated my game !!