It's a start man, but it still looks like the person is dreaming in FPSC. You need to think about how to make the levels more dreamy. think about trying to hide the walls, in some way, or make the areas look less confined, its hard to focus in dreams, so backdrops and so on tend to be more muted and less noticable.
I'm gonna just go there and say it, skeletons stopped being scary in movies sometime in the late 80's, and games came after that. Try and think of new ways of scaring people.
Hold on.. let me gather my thoughts here...
Ok.The human brain has 2 layers...the outer layer developed later in evolution and therefore represents the part of the human mental capabilities that came later in evolution : art, music, cultural creativity, love, compasion, empathy and so on. The core of our brains is the part that evoloved first, and gives us our primal instincts : fear , aggression, hunger, sex etc.
When we dream our outer cortex is less active and our perceptions are controlled by the core, therefore you'll find most dreams are based around primal urges. This is why umbra focussed around the more primal aspects of the human mind : fear (through disorientation + sound), sex (the orgasm sounds in the sound track), and aggression (the final section). Of course, these primal urges have the playground of our concious memories, so we have some weird things playing out, like talking kidneys or your best friends dad eating your sister for her birthday... whatever.
What I'm trying to say is, to give your game a dream feel, you need to identify which parts of the psyche you're going to manipulate:
Fear : Your not going so scare anyone with skeletons and ww2 thugs, but that doesn't mean you need twisted monsters either, you should try playing with sound and disorientation, it works a treat.
Aggression : Its hard to do in FPSC, but try forcing the player to shoot things, but give them a childrens tv theme in the background, and make the dying enemies screams really viceral. I know this sounds totally morally wrong, but if your going to make it a dream, go the whole hog.
What I'm saying is, I'm not going to knock you for doing something similar to Umbra, hey why not step up and try to knock my "dream adventure crown"*, but if you're gonna do it, do it right.
Anyway, can't believe I just typed all that! Hope it helps.
Butters
*Yes... I gave myself a crown.
