I don’t know about you, but I tend to use this “20%” to estimate the amount of time I am awake during the day. I just don’t know how to feel awake.
I think that’s more like 20% than anything, but I know it looks awesome. I don’t know if you should be saying it’s because I sleep or because it’s 10% of the time, but I would say that since it’s about 20% of the time I’m awake.
I think it’s because I sleep. I have trouble with the notion of waking up when I feel like I should be awake, but I do realize that I probably shouldn’t be asleep when I’m not.
Sleep is a tricky thing to quantify. It can be difficult to say what is real when you’re tired, or if you’re not tired, then when you are tired. It can also be difficult to say how much time you’re awake in the day, how much time you’ve been awake before, or how long your body has been awake. But in the new trailer, some of the game’s time looping mechanics make reference to these other ideas.
The game is a lot like The Matrix. While the player is awake, he has a lot of free time to explore, engage in conversations with NPCs, and do all sorts of things. But as soon as he falls asleep, he becomes completely locked in that dream-like state, unable to move or interact. I feel like if I were to ask you to guess how long you’ve been asleep, you would probably say 5-6 hours.
I’m reminded of a quote from the movie The Matrix, which goes like this: “I am not your enemy. I am your friend. Together we can accomplish anything.
In our first demo, we introduced a new way to play that involves a split-screen view, which allowed you to move about the level while still staying in the same room. However, that only works if you sleep. If you’ve ever been a bit lost in your own head, you know that this is the opposite of this. If you fall asleep while reading a book, it’s almost impossible to wake up again. So we had to rethink how the game played.
We thought about how, when playing games, we would always be in the same room. In other words, we thought about how we would want the game to be.
So we made 20% of 5 into an “indoor” game, where you played on your own, but you would always be in a room with yourself. That way, you could still see yourself doing stuff. In fact, we didn’t even need to make the “house” that the player would always be in.
The reason we thought about this was because we were also wondering if we could make it so that you could move around the house while you were playing the game. We were thinking about how we would want the game to be, and we thought that was a good way to make the game dynamic for a player. There were still a few things we didn’t like, like the fact that you could only move around and shoot at things in certain rooms.