http://insideastarfilledsky.net/This is a simple game, really, and I could have sworn I saw a topic about it some time ago in this very section. It's an independently produced computer game where basically everything is procedurally generated -- the player and enemy sprites, the levels you play on (by principle, of course), even the music! (I believe)
Is that what this topic is about? Am I looking for highly procedural games?
NO.Inside a Star Filled Sky gets boring after a while, but the core concept remains interesting. That is to say, and infinite number of layers of the game world. I guess the concept could also be represented by the movie Inception, where theoretically, the worlds they operate in are made out of further and further layers of people's dreams (in which people also dream, potentially ad infinitum).
IASFS brought this concept in that every level is a huge representation of a creature not unlike the one you're playing as, and when you finish it, you become the creature that was previously the map you were playing on, basically forever. You could, alternately, "enter" anything -- powerups, enemies, yourself -- and the reality you operated on would become that object.
What I'm looking for is games that have layers of a game world that function not unlike the other layers, yet are unique in their own right. They don't have to be infinite, but that would be preferable. Examples:
-You can dream in the game while asleep, and you temporarily play in the dream world just like you play the regular game world. In the dream you can also go to sleep and dream, and inside that dream you can do the same, and so on.
-There are portals in the game world to other games worlds that exist within the bounds of the portal but while in them seem to be a regular game world, and inside these "portal worlds" there are portals, and so on.
-Something much like the titular game, my favorite concept so far, each object in the game world is a (mini?) game world in its own right.
I know it's a rare concept, but what other games have this, if any?