Dystopia Sequel: Haptic

[netdvn]

Insomnia has all the makings of an asylum maze.

Crazy people in straight jackets? Check
Crazy doctors performing inhumane experiments? Check
Rooms that are nothing but a bed and soft padding? Check

Could it be a sleep experiment gone wrong? Yeah but it takes place in some sort of asylum.

As for the Pompeii maze being an asylum or not, I pretty much understand that Ryan's initial plan is to make a maze similar to Lunatic's Playground, which is an insane asylum themed maze. I don't really care what they add there as long as its something worth walking through, either visually or scare-wise.

 

[GrandpaD]

I saw something they do at a haunted house attraction in Calif. They have special "glow stick nights" in which one member of a group carries it walking thru a pitch dark HH. I could see BGW selling the sticks.

That same place (award winning, I've read) had "special ops nights", too. People paid extra to hunt down zombies with Nerf guns. Lol

 

[Applesauce]

Insomnia has all the makings of an asylum maze.

Crazy people in straight jackets? Check
Crazy doctors performing inhumane experiments? Check
Rooms that are nothing but a bed and soft padding? Check

Could it be a sleep experiment gone wrong? Yeah but it takes place in some sort of asylum.

As for the Pompeii maze being an asylum or not, I pretty much understand that Ryan's initial plan is to make a maze similar to Lunatic's Playground, which is an insane asylum themed maze. I don't really care what they add there as long as its something worth walking through, either visually or scare-wise.

Okay there was a single room with a straight jacket. Everyone else was in hospital gowns.

Doctors performing experiments on patients does not automatically mean asylum in haunt settings.

And the house is titled Insomnia. It's literally about being unable to fall asleep. If there weren't empty walled rooms with a bed in it I'd be concerned considering the main theme of the house is doctors and not being able to sleep.

It could very well be an asylum however when you walk in its a sleep doctor's office. (Its hard to go back and forth on my phone between here and YouTube to grab a screenshot. But literally Tim Tracker did a walk through for the house. You can see the whole thing in his hos video from last year)

Also you should see Ryan's second post about how he wanted to make it different than Lunatic's Playground. He is trying to fix the house to make it better, while sticking to it's same themes. Which is propaganda and brainwashing not an asylum. Please stop with the asylum stuff the debate is over. We don't need to talk about it anymore since it doesnt have anything to do with a dystopia based house.

 

[Nicole]

Just a quick reminder that this thread is NOT about an asylum maze.

It isn’t fair to Ryan to derail the discussion about his concept with unrelated ideas.

 

[BGWPinGuy]

I completely apologize for derailing the conversation. I didn't mean to be insensitive to people with mental health issues; I had just watched AHS Asylum and that's where it stemmed from. Anywho, I find that Ryan's idea sounds interesting but I feel like a few more layers could be added to make the maze a headliner (just my personal opinion)

 

[BGWPinGuy]

I kinda get the if you turned the Smiler from Alton towers into a haunted house vibe from the brainwashing propaganda side.

 

[sereniv]

let me try to steer this boat back on course lmfao

ryan, i definitely think your idea has good potential. the biggest factor in properly developing the maze, i think, would be having extensive enough thematic instruments. like it has been pointed out, although dystopia had an interesting concept and some good props to detail the story, it wasn't able to properly develop its "universe" in my opinion. depending on which path you too it severely altered the intensity of the maze and its ability to keep me afraid and wondering "oh god what's next???"

here's what i've been brainstorming: a good start to your maze concept would be an entrance to a happy pediatric-like doctors office with lots of bright colors and smiling doctors/nurses who urge you to remember to take your "happy pills" or "mood boosters"; but, you instead pass right by and the effects of them not being taken on schedule begin to show, betraying the disgusting world around you. i feel like lots of false gore could make this a very atmospherically intense maze. something like a party that although all the people there are having a grand ball and discussing things like presents and cake, all you can see is a blood-covered room with intestine "streamers", lolling head "balloons", and some sort of gross "cake" concoction with maggots and other creatures inhabiting it. other scenes i feel could fit more along with the doctor idea are rooms with patients being horribly operated on, yet grinning and laughing as if nothing is wrong.
(hope this doesn't sound too much like rambling!)

 

[BGWPinGuy]

The great head fiasco shall not be recreated

 

[Ryan]

I kinda get the if you turned the Smiler from Alton towers into a haunted house vibe from the brainwashing propaganda side.

Rip Smiler theming

 

[Ryan]

let me try to steer this boat back on course lmfao

ryan, i definitely think your idea has good potential. the biggest factor in properly developing the maze, i think, would be having extensive enough thematic instruments. like it has been pointed out, although dystopia had an interesting concept and some good props to detail the story, it wasn't able to properly develop its "universe" in my opinion. depending on which path you too it severely altered the intensity of the maze and its ability to keep me afraid and wondering "oh god what's next???"

here's what i've been brainstorming: a good start to your maze concept would be an entrance to a happy pediatric-like doctors office with lots of bright colors and smiling doctors/nurses who urge you to remember to take your "happy pills" or "mood boosters"; but, you instead pass right by and the effects of them not being taken on schedule begin to show, betraying the disgusting world around you. i feel like lots of false gore could make this a very atmospherically intense maze. something like a party that although all the people there are having a grand ball and discussing things like presents and cake, all you can see is a blood-covered room with intestine "streamers", lolling head "balloons", and some sort of gross "cake" concoction with maggots and other creatures inhabiting it. other scenes i feel could fit more along with the doctor idea are rooms with patients being horribly operated on, yet grinning and laughing as if nothing is wrong.
(hope this doesn't sound too much like rambling!)

I totally get where you are coming from. I would flesh out different room ideas but didn’t have the ideas at that point and time, but this is exactly what I’m talking about ;D

 

[The Quist]

When I first read this idea I guess I didn't understand the concept, but now I am blown away. This could one of the best ideas I have heard, but as much as I love HOS, I think this is way to abstract for BGW. We will likely just get another bland house with someone standing behind a corner in a mask, groaning. I hope I am wrong, but their track record lately would say otherwise.