Lucid Nightmare

Lucid Nightmare is about a little girl, "Lillian", caught in her own dream. She has to escape her nightmare with her loyal companion "Soctopus".

Accomplishments on this project

  • Developed a 2D physics engine from the ground up
  • Worked in conjunction with another developer to create all of the game logic code
  • Implemented and fine-tuned controls based on player feedback
  • Collaborated with other programmers to maintain and optimize the engine

About the game

Lucid Nightmare is about a little girl, “Lillian”, caught in her own dream. She has to escape her nightmare with her loyal companion “Soctopus”. Soctopus is Lillian’s mascot, that is alive in her dream. Lillian can use Soctopus as a weapon against “shadows”, creepy and scary figures that give Lillian bad dreams. Lillian is very scared in the dark. She therefore collects fireflies to give her company and shed a little light in the otherwise very dark dream.

You can play this game

Lucid Nightmare is available for download at the DigiPen website.