The Dream Machine (video game)

The Dream Machine
Developer(s) Cockroach Inc.
Publisher(s) Cockroach Inc.
Director(s) Anders Gustafsson
Designer(s) Anders Gustafsson
Erik Zaring
Composer(s) Ale Speranza[1]
Jonathan Adamich
Douglas Holmquist
Jan Cardell
Platform(s) Windows, Mac OS X
Release
Genre(s) Point-and-click adventure
Mode(s) Single-player

The Dream Machine is an episodic point-and-click adventure video game developed and published by Cockroach Inc. (Anders Gustafsson and Erik Zaring) The story of the game is about dreams and voyeurism.[3] The game is built by hand, using materials such as clay and cardboard. The game consists of six chapters released between December 2010 and May 2017.[4] The game is available on Windows and Mac OS X.

Gameplay

In The Dream Machine the player takes control of the protagonist Victor Neff. The player has to solve puzzles and collect items that can help overcome obstacles in the game.

Plot

The protagonist is Victor Neff, a young newlywed who has just moved into a new apartment with his wife. While trying to get settled they stumble upon the strange secret of the building and its owner, which starts Victor on a journey through several human minds. The story is split up into six individual chapters, each chapter featuring a visit to at least one dream-world.

Development

The Dream Machine is developed by Cockroach Inc. which is a two-man independent game studio run by Anders Gustafsson and Erik Zaring.

The graphics for the game was almost exclusively built by hand, utilising a wide variety of materials such as clay, cardboard, cotton wad, pebbles, baking paper, moss, turf, pipe cleaners, broccoli, lichen, coffee grounds, carpet samples, pork chop trimmings, condoms, ping pong balls, Molton cloth, small plastic babies, insulation foam, matchsticks, aluminium foil, latex, yarn, towels, pasta, UV reactive colours, UV reactive yarn, UV reactive powder, animal bones and popsicle sticks. Among many other things.[5]

The Dream Machine started out as a browser based game, but transitioned onto Steam after being nominated for an IGF award in the Visuals Arts category.

Reception

The Dream Machine's first two chapters were well received on release; on the critic aggregate sites GameRankings it received an average score of 81.50%[6] and on Metacritic an average score of 76.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Alternative magazine online interviews Anders Gustafsson".
  2. 1 2 3 4 "giantbomb's information page".
  3. ↑ "Official website from The Dream Machine".
  4. ↑ "The Dream Machine". Steam.
  5. ↑ "The Dream Machine FAQ :: The Dream Machine General Discussions". steamcommunity.com. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
  6. ↑ "Gameranking".
  7. ↑ "Metacritic".
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