The Nightmare Chronicles is a fantastic adventure of a poor boy trapped inside his head during a particularly nasty bad dream.
The Beginning of the Dream
The idea came to me (like most of my good ones) just as I was drifting off to sleep. I wanted to create a single player action adventure platformer in a wacky art style that would lend it self to a great deal of creative freedom. It needed to be set somewhere that anything that could happen and what better a place than in the imagination of a child. Building a world inside of a dream sounded like an great place to start. As an imaginary world i could do things that would break the rules of physics in the real world, such as rip the floor out from under a character or make someone fight zombies of themselves. The Fantasy setting also permits me to adopt a more cartoonish art style that will save development time while adding a charming feel to the game.
The main character is a boy called Tedrich. He has chronic insomnia due to his recuring night terrors. At the age of 15 he should have outgrown his fear of the boogy man and monsters under his bed. Unfortunatly he can't seem to free himself from the horrors that befall him at night. Meanwhile Tedrich's father thinks he is just being and baby and his mother blames TV and movie. Can Tedrich overcome his fears and fight off the boogy man or will he forever be afraid to close his eyes? Find out in The Nightmare Chronicles.
In the following months I will be documenting the development progress of creating The Nightmare Chronicles as a mod for the Half-Life 2 engine in a series of blog posts. Stay tuned for more updates.
