Help Niki to battle several mental health issues in order to reach the “Dreamer’s Hotel”, her own peaceful place of safety and hope.
Laura Kröner
6. Semester, 2020
2D
Animation & Game
Dreamer’s Hotel is a 2D platforming game with 2 playable and broadly designed levels (city and woods). In each of these levels Niki , the main character, encounters a Trigger Demon that triggers a mental disorder. In this case it is a depressive episode ( city level) and a panic attack ( woods level).
Special game mechanics have to be used in order to get a control of these mental disorders and to continue playing the game normally, because the triggers have an effect on the game itself.
In the depressive episode for example Niki gets increasingly slower and in the panic attack the screen gets darker and darker until you can’t see anything anymore. If Niki (or the player) doesn’t know what to do, her companion bumblebee will help her.
Dreamer’s Hotel was designed as a browser-based game, but there is a desktop app available as well.