"Can't you tell me anything straightforward?"

I'm Cawdi/Pi, and I'm starting work on a little game called Uplifting! You can find updates and the like here, and ask whatever you like about the game and characters (answers may be subject to change based on lore and plot tweaks)

HIIIIII im so sorry it took so long to get around to this i haven't logged into here in a hot minute. first of all thank you so much ^^ i'm glad you're liking it so far and it will be back soon now that uni is over 4 now. To answer your questions:

Pretty much the entire plot, as well as most of the floor designs and mechanics, and a lot of the character designs are directly adapted from the dream, as well as the central themes. From what I had in the dream, I've tried not to change anything shown in the dream, and have simply expanded from what I woke up with. Certain things (such as Natalie's design and character, the elevator's mechanics, 1F, 2F, 3F, 5F, 6F and 8F, the prologue and the ending) were especially detailed whereas things like some of the other floors and designs have been adapted from a general vibe without remembering their specific details.

I think the story is unique in the way that what makes sense doesn't make sense and vice versa, so I haven't really had to modify much, only expand upon it and fill in the gaps. I'm trying to aim for keeping what I remembered from the dream as accurate as possible because it was really cool.

I saw pretty much the whole story! In the dream I wasn't the one who actually made Uplifting, but it was a game that had gotten very popular in my dream and I'd watched a detailed video analysis on the plot and themes. I tend to be semi-lucid in certain dreams and had the thought of "man, I really need to play this when I wake up" without realising that it is in fact yet to exist and if it is, I'll be the one creating it myself.

Some of the things that I did create separately from the dream include:

-4F and 7F (9F has actually still not come to me but it will... eventually)

-Natalie's life outside of the 'Torment Tower' as well as her past and history with Nyl

-Nyl's name and design (originally, 'Nyl' was a placeholder name, but after a few days it sort of just grew on me enough to keep it)

-The lore and worldbuilding behind the Architectural Abnormalities outside of the Torment Tower, and the protagonists motivations for being there

-Just in general expansion, worldbuilding and connecting the dots to make everything flow

-Most of the dialogue

seeing as uni is quite the time-consuming gig, i've been starting to write the first draft of Uplifting wordsstyle like a book so i can get the story itself down while still being able to somewhat keep up with all of my projects. as opposed to a normal chapter system, the story's being divvied up into floors, and i've just finished writing the prologue, Parking, if anyone would be interested in a 5k word read. i'm hardly the world's best writer but i'll be updating and announcing every new chapter, and i'm really excited about this project so would love to hear everyone's thoughts!

Due to personal reasons, I've decided to end the tattdok project from becoming a public game. While the characters are all very dear to me, I'm still choosing to scrap it as anything for a wider audience, and they will be retired into being casual ocs. For the time being, the tattdok posts I've made will remain up for archival purposes, but I may end up taking them down at some point in the future.

From now on, I will be focusing my efforts into making Uplifting, so there's still a game to look forward to and that I'll be providing many updates on.

You play as Farrow Faw, an ai living in the "Caged World"; an unfinished digital masterpiece fallen to violent ruin. Death is meaningless, but does that make life equally so? She doesn't know how or why she ended up in such a place, only that it's not where she belongs. It's not her Home. In fact, she doesn't even know where her "Home" is, but she's sure that she'd recognise it as soon as she saw it for real.

Does the key to escape lie above the fog of the fourth floor, or the rooms that appear to crumble into nothing? Or the disgusting horrible yucky water underground that she despises? Everyone knows some piece of what's going on, and she's taking it upon herself to pull them all together. Though, there's others already ahead of her...

And then there's Suvi of course, who craves to make everyone around him share in his suffering until he can reset the whole world so he can be happy again, wiping out almost everyone inside for good. Nobody can start a shitfight quite like him.

Team up with people you like! Team up with people who hate you! And team up with people who are neutral towards you but that's a little less exciting. Buy people's affection so they can withstand your annoying prescence! Better be careful of what you say to them, because the wrong words may just cost you your life! Again!

here's a bit of a pt. 2 on the skycreatures featuring some of their build and the like. I'm not rlly sure what else to add here.. however i DO have a reference drawing of Aquila that was made for artfight earlier this year to get a look at common clothing/patterning