Lucid Explorer

𝓐𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽

Lucid Explorer is an online community game that allows people to experience creative dream worlds created by other players including the ability to create your very own dream worlds for others to play and experience. Dreams can be wonderful places to be in and explore. But when they end you would sometimes get the feeling of missing a good and happy moment. Lucid Explorer is promoted by its own community to accomplish the recreation of dream worlds in a virtual environment. A Xer Network account is required to play this game. You can create an account within the game in less than a minute.

When the player is about to dream, published levels would then be randomly chosen to experience. Dreams are controlled by a random hidden time limit that indicates when the player will wake up from their dream. After the dream is over the player then has the ability to give feedback to the original creator by either liking or disliking. This will help the creator improve the given dream.

𝓒𝓸𝓶𝓶𝓾𝓷𝓲𝓽𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓭𝓮 𝓤𝓹𝓭𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓼

The contribution feature allows people to help send assets and suggestions for new content updates. This helps keep the game active and expansive for everyone that relies based on personal preferences for many different parts of the game to be established. If you have contributed for the latest update then your username will be featured on the latest update page including being featured in the credits of the main game.

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓔𝓭𝓲𝓽𝓸𝓻 / 𝓓𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓶 𝓒𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓣𝓸𝓸𝓵

The in-game editor provides many easy to use tools and features for creating your very own worlds for others to experience. You can easily learn how to recognize the tools in a matter of minutes with a tutorial below.

𝓒𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓣𝓸𝓸𝓵𝓼 / 𝓕𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮𝓼

These tools reference file utilities for use in mainly saving or loading a project. The first one towards exiting, the second towards saving, the third towards creating an empty project, and lastly opening a saved level.

The first and second in this column are both related to undo and redo which has a hotkey of both CTRL - Z and CTRL - Y, the third leads to deleting an object, fourth and last one leads to duplicating up to multiple objects at once which has a hotkey of CTRL - C.

In this column the first allows you to drag the position of an object. The second allows rotation, the third allows scale, and lastly the fourth allows a snapping distance that applies to the first three tools on the left of this image.

The resource browser gives you the ability to place objects inside your scene just by clicking on any of the models shown. Once an object is placed inside the scene you can change its properties using the inspector or change its position, rotation, or scale by using the top tools in orange color.

The inspector allows you to edit the properties of an object or tool blocks. Here are some references on how to use these tool blocks.

Firstly, event triggers allow you to create actions based on the area the player is in. You can hide an object and allow event triggers to re-enable a hidden object when the player is located where the event was placed. This is useful for unexpected in-game moments inside the lucid dream.

The graphic setting tool block is useful for controlling the post-processing effects within a scene such as fog, pixelation, tone mapping, and more including the lucid effect which can go all the way up to 4 modes in a scene.

This block gives the ability to play in-game music that can reflect and give atmosphere within your scene. This comes with many settings such as volume, loop, and a list of music to choose from for your scene. You can also use event triggers to manipulate the current state of the music block to fit in each and every part of your lucid world.

The final features relate to playtesting your scene and publishing when done.

𝓟𝓾𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓐 𝓦𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭

In the publishing window, you will see these three options. The first button relates to updating a level that you have already published on the network. Updating your level requires a code generated from uploading from square one. As soon as its updated people will then see and experience the changes you made inside the same level. Uploading as new gives you the full-on ability to publicly release a world you have made. People will then come across your level inside dream mode and give you feedback using the in-game rating system for design improvement. And lastly, managing a world allows you to check the total plays your level has gotten including the total likes and dislikes received. Didn't like what you have published? Deleting your published level is also a possibility that hides the scene from the public to see.