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Make Anything. Make Everything. Make your [Dreams] come true (on 14th Feb, 2020.)
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Q: What is Dreams? A: It's every game. It's the omni-game. A tool for making art, music, and whole games.
Dreams is a sandbox video game developed by Media Molecule and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4, scheduled for release in 2019, with the public beta released in 2018. The game puts focuses on 'play, create and share', and allows players to create user-generated content. In April 2019, Media Molecule launched Dreams Creator Early Access.
In Dreams, players control an "imp", which is used to interact with the game's world (like a mouse cursor), create new items and characters, and manipulate objects by grabbing and pulling them. Players move the imp by using the DualShock 4 or PlayStation Move controllers. The imp is customizable, and players can change the emotion of the imp by drawing on the controller's touchpad.[5] The imp has the ability to possess characters featured in a dream, allowing players to take direct control of these characters.
Dreams's levels are separated by different segments known as "dreams", and these dreams are connected by different gateways such as doors. Players encounter different puzzles in the game, which must be solved by using the abilities of the imp and the possessed characters, as well as the objects players retrieved in a dream. Items collected by players can be used to alter and modify the state of the game's world.
Players can create their own levels in the game by using custom and pre-built objects. Players can then share their completed dreams online. Cooperative multiplayer is also featured in the game, allowing players to create and manipulate their custom dreams together.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbIjUA4-M2USome example creations:
A pool game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnvERDhcW1M
A flight sim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZHsLBAhqL0
Bowling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCua5laTR2w
A first-person shooter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if_8wMC7GfY
A 3d platform game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN--i_3swyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnvERDhcW1MA flight sim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZHsLBAhqL0Bowling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCua5laTR2wA first-person shooter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if_8wMC7GfYA 3d platform game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN--i_3swyoAnd plenty more besides! Some of my screenshots from the early access version are here.
Full Release trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8qWEDsuaIAPost a link to your profile on indreams.me so I can look at your cool creations, PA!
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I think it’s spectacular and some great stuff out there. The mechanics are clever but I find sculpting a bit tricky.
Personally speaking, why am I going to buy what amounts to a tool for making games when I can just buy games instead and I don't have to invest a ton of time and energy in also making those games?
Can't blame them for trying to market it to as many people as possible though, right? And sometimes a creator doesn't know they are a creator unless someone puts the right tools or right "paintbrush" in front of them.
In the beta, I loved how you could walk through a timeline/bulletin board of versions and newly developed assets and creator/player feedback. Every project tells a story.
Also check out 'Haus of Bevis' for a truly... unique experience.
Every time I boot Dreams up now the quality of the top community picks just keeps going up and up. It's amazing to think that Dreams could compete with something like itch.io when it leaves early access.
Also check out this Sonic level:
Further, I'm curious as to just how much effort it takes to get the actual "game" part of a game to work using Dreams. At the end of the day, something like Sekiro can be visually rendered on extremely simple models and retain the exact same gameplay. While making an actual game probably wants an actual game engine of some type, like Unity or Unreal, I wonder if Dreams couldn't make decent proof versions of gameplay concepts without needing a big team of devs or an assload of man-hours of work.
This is a great time-line video showing the evolution of a very well made 'Rampage*' style game. Roughly four months of effort:
*(Rampage - Furry edition... That burp...
There is soooo much great stuff on the Dreamiverse now. Every type of game you could imagine. Media Molecule have added a 'staff picks' section with one of the recent patches and it's great if you want to some top quality creations.
PSN: SirGrinchX
Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch
My primary reason for getting it was being able to easily construct maquettes for painting, complete with lighting elements. You really can put together some pretty good stuff in a hurry once you've got your head wrapped around the Move controllers, and I imagine it will get even faster and easier when the PSVR stuff works.
But once I learned Dreams well enough for that, I also found it great for learning a ton of stuff that has to do with constructing animations and putting together functions out of the logic components. Yeah, the gadget options simplify a lot of what would otherwise be coding (though a lot of that coding would be stuff that people would pull premade libraries for), but the visual aspect really helps put this stuff together. Something like putting together a rifle is a whole pile of pieces for tracking ammunition, lighting and visuals that sync with firing, and hit detection (both for putting damage on a target and getting impact effects).
Though it can be a liiiittle frustrating when you're doing something like using a laser for surface detection and everything you know about the pieces says you should be able to spawn smoke spatters at an impact point, except the effects just keep spawning by the gun. Turns out that some gadgets with location elements work VERY differently when inside a chip instead of outside a chip. Took me like three hours to figure out to put the detection gadget on the end of the gun to work right, instead of packing it away in a chip.
It's enough that I'm actually going to take a shot at putting together a fully-functional game. I'm not quite convinced yet that Dreams will let you put together a game that doesn't very clearly show as being a Dreams product, complete with rough edges, but there's still enough here to work for prototyping visuals and gameplay ideas.
If you can imagine it, another player has probably already made it, for you to stamp in to a scene and tinker with.
Super Ommy Kart (Trailer and then some gameplay in the spoiler):
Dreams is now THE best £25 I've ever spent on PSN. Like, fucking hands down, every time I boot it up I'm blown away. I could showcase 10 things every day, and still not scratch the surface...
Not enough time in the day.
Also speaking of Mario Maker 2, though not in Dreams (yet), someone did create a version of it in LBP3, about a month ago.
Bonkers. :rotate:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/sonys-dreams-wins-best-gamescom-award-1234301
Goldeneye 64's first level, in Dreams:
'Mimeo Prophecy', an isometric perspective action-RPG with nods to Persona and Pokemon.
You can pet the dog.
And Media Molecule will be at PAX this weekend:
Perhaps @Mr_Grinch ?
PSN: SirGrinchX
Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch
^ A pretty well made 'Wipeout' clone. Only one track and ship so far though.
Release version/retail disc version coming on 14th February, 2020! I'm not sure if it will have PSVR support or not.