SaysWho? Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 https://www.geek.com/games/hands-on-dreams-is-sonys-wildly-ambitious-game-maker-1746644/ Quote I remember a decade ago when Media Molecule first hit the scene with LittleBigPlanet. Folks were blown away with the tools the game provided you for building your own video game levels. It had the potential to make game design itself a far more democratic process, a huge win for art and education in our medium. LittleBigPlanet definitely became a strong franchise, with follow-ups and spin-offs starring Sackboy in the gang. But I feel the eventual consensus was that its promise was undercut by less-than-stellar core platforming gameplay and creation tools that had their admirable ambition undone by their overwhelming complexity. Well Dreams is LittleBigPlanet on steroids. Actually, considering the game’s love of hazy blissed-out gentle surrealism it’s probably on a different drug. But Media Molecule’s next game for PlayStation 4 takes LBP’s game-making philosophy and wildly expands it out until it’s essentially a piece of advanced art software. What we played was a much stronger, more varied game, but also an even more potentially overwhelming tool. Quote Before even attempting to make your own game in Dreams you should try playing the included story mode. Using the DualShock 4’s motion sensor you glide a little imp around the screen like a cursor interacting with various objects in whimsical ways. Manually unlock doors. Pick up and pour oil cans to loosen up rusty robots. One gothic section had us leading a man away from skeletons like a casual point-and-click adventure. You can also possess certain characters like a cube with legs or a little fox with an eyepatch and projectile attack for sections that play more like traditional 3D platformers, with physics that felt much snappier than LittleBigPlanet ever did. The real purpose of the story mode in Dreams though is to show just what is possible with the game’s comically robust creation tools. Granted, it’s made by professional game developers deeply familiar with their own engine but everything from the levels to the puzzles to the assets to even the cutscenes and music can be made within the game itself. Quote Pick different MIDI sounds like smooth synth pipes, lay down a tune with buttons, edit on the track to get the timing and rhythm right. It’s just like FL Studio or something, it’s wild. And to top things off, we adjusted the resolution of the visuals to complete the faux-PlayStation 1 platformer look. Quote Fortunately, the robust sharing system sounds like it’ll make it easier for creators to communally share knowledge. You won’t be burdened with making your games entirely from scratch. You can earn new items from the story mode as well as remix individual levels or packaged groups of levels from other users. The original user always gets credits for their source material but you’ll get credit for your remix, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 Dark Souls 4 confirmed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TwinIon Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 That's very impressive. I could see my high school self spending tons of hours building something hopelessly unplayable. I'm less convinced that it's going to be something that I want to put lots of hours into playing, but I'd be happy to see this catch on and become something big. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 I bought the early access and just barely scraped the surface last night. Then I watched the most recent Dreams video on Giantbomb and watching 2 of the developers play around with it was amazing. The rate at which he created things with 2 move controllers was crazy to watch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted May 11, 2019 Author Share Posted May 11, 2019 On 5/2/2019 at 11:47 AM, TwinIon said: That's very impressive. I could see my high school self spending tons of hours building something hopelessly unplayable. I'm less convinced that it's going to be something that I want to put lots of hours into playing, but I'd be happy to see this catch on and become something big. On 5/2/2019 at 12:40 PM, DarkStar189 said: I bought the early access and just barely scraped the surface last night. Then I watched the most recent Dreams video on Giantbomb and watching 2 of the developers play around with it was amazing. The rate at which he created things with 2 move controllers was crazy to watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuckle85 Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 Video Games: The Game, basically. Been playing the Beta non stop because of all dream surf content to discover. It'll probably end up changing how games are both played and developed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodimus Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 I'm real tempted to get the early access copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 This was cool! https://kotaku.com/a-dedicated-fan-is-remaking-metal-gear-solid-in-dreams-1834703726 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxEvil AshxX Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 10 people will make absolutely amazing content while the other million use it to make penises. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted May 12, 2019 Author Share Posted May 12, 2019 4 minutes ago, XxEvil AshxX said: 10 people will make absolutely amazing content From my experience with games like Starcraft and LittleBigPlanet, nah, thousands of people are going to make some cool shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paperclyp Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 On 5/11/2019 at 4:23 PM, fuckle85 said: It'll probably end up changing how games are both played and developed. Very skeptical it will really have much of an influence on the industry, but it seems very cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuckle85 Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 1 hour ago, Paperclyp said: Very skeptical it will really have much of an influence on the industry, but it seems very cool. I'm not sure it will inspire many similar games or anything like that. But Dreams' UI is so accessible compared to everything else and I think with that barrier of entry being much lower it's possible it will significantly help nurture talent of aspiring game developers and get them get noticed and possibly hired by studios! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paperclyp Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 52 minutes ago, fuckle85 said: I'm not sure it will inspire many similar games or anything like that. But Dreams' UI is so accessible compared to everything else and I think with that barrier of entry being much lower it's possible it will significantly help nurture talent of aspiring game developers and get them get noticed and possibly hired by studios! That’s possible and I hope it works out like that. I think there are a lot of ways people can kind of do that now though, and in some cases do get hired after making ambitious mods or patches to games. Nevertheless, it was beyond me what people did with Little big planet alone. In fact it was almost depressing to me because I couldn’t even grasp how one would even begin to do what people did in that game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 The biggest challenge is making the game easy enough to make your own stuff. If anyone remembers Project Spark, it was hard (at least for me) to do exactly what I wanted the game to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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fuckle85 Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 Anyone have a list going of games that are pretty much finished instead of works in progress? (takes more than a couple hours to finish, etc)? Something like Marbelous, for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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fuckle85 Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Is this gonna be a PS5 release now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 4 hours ago, fuckle85 said: Is this gonna be a PS5 release now? It's already early access on PS4. I'd expect this to release early 2020. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Keyser_Soze Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 Media Molecule is ending support for Dreams in September | VGC WWW.VIDEOGAMESCHRONICLE.COM The game will receive no more updates and players will get a storage limit next month… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 There goes any hope for PSVR 2 compatibility. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 I can’t say I ever joined in with Dreams, or have any awareness of the community size/growth - but surely if you put this on the main page, change to a F2P model, then add in VR support it would have the legs to go for years? I mean, clearly they don’t think that but it still feels it could… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 I think they (Sony, not MM) dropped the ball here hard. Dreams could have gone somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 30 minutes ago, stepee said: I think they (Sony, not MM) dropped the ball here hard. Dreams could have gone somewhere. I don’t know much about the package suite - but would a phone/tablet port have worked (PC port I’m assuming would be a natural fit). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 2 minutes ago, gamer.tv said: I don’t know much about the package suite - but would a phone/tablet port have worked (PC port I’m assuming would be a natural fit). Mobile would have probably been a heavy lift unless it just streamed but pc port, a proper ps5 port, psvr2 support, pc headset support, that all should have happened. The launch was so muted with the early access and then casual full release that still didn’t have vr ready. They never did multiplayer either. It probably needed a complete relaunch for ps5 to be taken seriously and I had actually assumed they were going to do that so this is a bummer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 It’s surprising how many Sony 1st party games from the PSVR are not on PSVR 2. It seems like an easy win to say “all Sony PSVR content will be available Day 1 on PSVR 2”. I will reserve judgement until the big Sony show in the summer but man the support for PSVR 2 feels lacking at the moment. Sony “this summer, we are happy to announce Astro Bot 2!” Me: *buys PSVR 2* 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 3 minutes ago, Brian said: It’s surprising how many Sony 1st party games from the PSVR are not on PSVR 2. It seems like an easy win to say “all Sony PSVR content will be available Day 1 on PSVR 2”. I will reserve judgement until the big Sony show in the summer but man the support for PSVR 2 feels lacking at the moment. Sony “this summer, we are happy to announce Astro Bot 2!” Me: *buys PSVR 2* I’d like even just rebuy most of them if they’d just put them on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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