Lie back. ADdes is dreaming.
ADdes is a fractal dream engine for Windows. It grows glowing dreams on your graphics card and lets each one melt into the next. It can fly you through them, play music it writes as it goes, or dance to whatever you put on. It runs on a screen or all around you in a Quest headset.
Coming soonRecorded from the app, with the names it gave these dreams and the music it wrote. Each dream stays about 12 seconds here. In the app it stays about two minutes.
Choose a Feel, the way you do in the app
A Feel steers what the dreams look like and how they move. ADdes comes with 18 of them. Try a few.
Every dream is grown fresh from a seed, so yours will not look like these. How a dream is made
Fly through shapes that open around you
On a Voyage, fractal shapes appear far ahead as points of light, open up, and drift past you. Hallways and tunnels carry you down corridors of neon and flame. You stay still, and nothing ever rushes at you.
Put a song on and the dream dances
Visualizer Mode listens to whatever is playing on your PC. The beat stirs the dream’s afterglow like ink in water, the song’s phrases set the light, and when the music drops, the next dream comes in. It works in the headset too.
It writes its own music while it dreams
No playlist and no loops. ADdes composes an ambient soundtrack as it goes: slow pads, a low drone, now and then an arpeggio or a bell, in a key that follows the Feel on screen. Like the dreams, it never plays the same way twice.
- Deep Tide
- Glasshouse
- Neon NightRecorded straight from the app’s soundtrack engine. Nothing plays until you press play.
Lie in bed and wear the dream
With a Quest headset over Link, the dream wraps all the way around you and turns to face wherever you are looking, even lying down. One button gathers it into a window in front of you, and the same menus float below your gaze.
The controls stay out of the way
Move the mouse and a slim bar glides in over the dream, then fades when you stop. Every Feel is at most three clicks away, each shown as a picture ADdes rendered itself. There is a sleep timer for drifting off.
Built for calm, and tested for it
The dreams are meant for lying back, so every build is measured against a list of limits called the Trance Budget. A few of them:
- No flashing
- A single flash in a test run counts as a failure.
- No sudden changes
- One dream never takes less than 8 seconds to dissolve into the next.
- Slow movement
- The picture pans at most 2% of the screen height a second.
- Gentle with music
- In the dreams, sound can deepen the colour and swell the glow. In Visualizer Mode, bright flashes stay rationed whatever the settings.
About 18.4 quintillion seeds. Every dream grows from a 64-bit seed, and that is 264, or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 of them. At about 170 seconds a dream (the default feel lingers for 110 and melts into the next over 60), seeing them all, one after another, would take roughly 99 trillion years.
The dreams and the drone are procedurally generated, so no two experiences are ever the same.
ADdes is coming soon
There is no public download yet. The Get page says what it will need to run and how the screensaver and the keys work.