What Relaxes You?

[piinyouri]

Overcast days
Alcest

 

[Sacman]

Good old masturbation... seriously...<.<

But considering you're making a game, i'd go for some soothing music... classical and romantic mostly...

 

[Boggelz]

Music or games usually. Deadmau5 to me is good music to listen to relax.
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[silver wolf009]

Good music.

The hum of a fan nearby.
Cool weather.
A nice time spent petting my dog.
While it's a rarity, getting a good massage.
Lying perfectly still before I drift off to sleep. Of course, for my goals, that's counter productive, but still.

I do not know you but you are a wonderful person. I have never heard that song before but I reallly, really like it. Thank you for sharing. ^-^

It's actually three songs that together fans call the Holy Trinity. Disposition, Reflection and Triad.

And if you haven't heard of Tool, I highly suggest you check them out. They have, in my opinion, wonderful music, and range from energetic to relaxing. Granted, at time their lyrics are hard to decipher, but they sort of argue their message of self interpretation is the reason why they sometimes make it hard to understand. I know I've come up with very different meanings based on my mishearings.

Here, I'll share some more:

Spoiler: Plenty of Tools

A trippy video for Lateralus

Wings For Marie parts one and two back to back

Flood

Right in Two


On the more energetic side, Undertow

Great band, great music, and great to get to share them.

 

[Xanthious]

Vicodin! Yummy yummy Vicodin. Well more specifically Norco but it's all the same. It's about the only benefit of having a slightly buggered back is that I get a big bottle o' happy every month.

 

[fozzy360]

Things that relax me? Cloudy days, rainy days, gratuitous fictional violence, Wild Turkey, a nice cigar, the themes to Jurassic Park, The Thing, and Blade Runner, the smell of bacon.

Hope that helps, OP.

 

[w9496]

Winter.

I live in Minnesota, so the winters are usually very nice. Lots of snow, a chilly breeze. I really like the cold.

Storms are pretty relaxing as well. Just not when they knock the power out.

 

[SH4DOWSL4Y3R]

Rainy days (unless i'm outside in the rain)
Listening to Smiletron/Jim guthrie's S&S OST/Other select Video game OSTs and normal songs.
Studio Ghibli films.
Mushi-Shi
A new one is Floating/falling about lazily in the air in Gravity Rush. it's polar opposite is trying to make it to gold medals on all the challenge missions. (sometimes the gravity alteration mechanics fly out of control and send me off course unexpectedly, which really screws with my perception in timed races)

i'm sure there's a bunch of other stuff i'm forgetting but i'd rather spend my free time today getting some gaming done instead of trying to take note of every single thing i find relaxing.

 

[Fijiman]

Listening to music usually does the trick.

Spoiler: This song is particularly calming in my opinion

I would say reading, but I don't read books too often in my spare time anymore.

 

[Easton Dark]

Well what relaxes me is winning at games and having sex. Probably neither of which you can actually put in your game.

So... rain, a cold drink, and comedy.

 

[Aprilgold]

Strangely I find masturbation strangely relaxing.

Also, be prepared to take lots of notes because there are tons of ways to relax under the sun.

 

[cambamuniverse]

The instrumental music from The Lion King (Hans Zimmer really earned that Oscar [he deserves more than the one, but if he is to have one, I'm glad it's for that]). But I don't think you'll be allowed to put that in this game of yours.

Well I'll most likely be making the game freeware and available for download so I've thought of putting in music from multiple places, seeing how copyright wouldn't affect anything. But I agree, the lion king does have a pretty damn good OST.

Good old masturbation... seriously...<.<

But considering you're making a game, i'd go for some soothing music... classical and romantic mostly...

Psh, I could put masturbation in my game...... right?

 

[ResonanceSD]

Seeing something like this. It's hilarious.

 

[FernandoV]

Being in the arms of a guy who holds me like he wants me there

 

[Ando85]

Folk metal and a nice cup of tea work quite well for me

I'm a big folk metal fan as well. What are some of your favorite bands? I love Finntroll, Korpiklaani and Equilibrium.

 

[Ando85]

What things relax you? Give specific examples of sights, sounds, feelings, etc. that relax you.

I am making a game that is designed to help people relax and overcome anxiety and depression and the idea is to make the player/the character traverse areas that relax him/her.

What kind of game are you making with what kind of programs? Sounds interesting I would like to hear more about it.

 

[Matt King]

minecraft on peaceful, just set it up and build some stupid shit

 

[karcentric]

Listening to Garbage is always good, that and just sitting in the sun, on a quiet day.

 

[cambamuniverse]

What things relax you? Give specific examples of sights, sounds, feelings, etc. that relax you.

I am making a game that is designed to help people relax and overcome anxiety and depression and the idea is to make the player/the character traverse areas that relax him/her.

What kind of game are you making with what kind of programs? Sounds interesting I would like to hear more about it.

It's very simple and I'm trying not to misguide people. It's not supposed to be some game of epic proportions, here is my current design layout: The game is a 2d adventure game that controls like LIMBO (sidescrolling/platforming/etc.). The game doesn't need to be that long, perhaps between 45 min. - 1 hour, but the idea is that it helps the player to relax. The game also gives you many choices which creates different paths to travel along (creating replayability and making the game different each time you play it). I'm creating it using GameMaker 8.1 pro. A lot of people think that gamemaker is iffy on quality but I believe that it suits my purpose so I'm sticking to it. The game will (most likely) be freeware, available for download for free on the internet. Plain and simple: it's just an experiment. It's not something I want to go down in history for making, but I want to see if I can use seemingly irrelevant events (like, say, watering a plant and having it grow into something beautiful) to relax people, if that makes sense. I appreciate your interest in the game, and if you/anyone else has more questions, I'd be glad to answer them. Again, it's just an experimental game, it probably won't be the next cave story but that's not the point I suppose lol.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Nostalgia, playing certain video games, playing certain video game tracks (my favourite being Donkey Kong Country 2?s ?Stickerbrush Symphony?), certain smells, watching Dragon Ball, watching certain films, just not being required to do anything in the current or near future, being around animals like cats and dogs (when I was at my friend?s house for a sleepover, his cat just jumped on the bed and slept on me, and I slept like a baby that night), and having a really good dream.