That's great. The old system it was pretty hard to gauge how hard you were hitting it. This looks much better. :)
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Dreams Creator Early Access |OT| Hey Now, This Is What Dreams Are Made Of
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That's great. The old system it was pretty hard to gauge how hard you were hitting it. This looks much better. :)
So it appears I may have lost several hours (which is weeks worth for me) of one of my dreams. Not sure if anyone can help, but hopefully you can learn from my mistake if not...
Here is the sequence of events.
First I started working on a building. After a long time with it, I realized I was using up too much thermo to detail the inside AND outside in the same scene, so I grabbed all the exterior parts and saved it as a different scene. Great.
From there I worked on the interior scene for several hours and worked on the exterior scene for several hours.
This whole time I had just been saving to my PS4. With literally dozens of hours between everything, I was getting paranoid that my PS4 would die, so I finally got around to saving it online as Private. I started with my interior space. When I went to upload it, the game made me also save anything that was connected to it. Okay. No problem there. I had it upload everything as Private.
Then when I go back to my exterior space scene, it's reverted back to when I first exported it as its own scene. Several hours of progress lost.
So, first question is obviously am I screwed? Is there a way to revert back to my previous save on my system?
If not, please tell me what the heck I did wrong so that I won't have this ever happen again. Really frustrated and depressed over this. I don't have a ton of time to work on this each week, so it's weeks worth of progress lost. :(
Here is the sequence of events.
First I started working on a building. After a long time with it, I realized I was using up too much thermo to detail the inside AND outside in the same scene, so I grabbed all the exterior parts and saved it as a different scene. Great.
From there I worked on the interior scene for several hours and worked on the exterior scene for several hours.
This whole time I had just been saving to my PS4. With literally dozens of hours between everything, I was getting paranoid that my PS4 would die, so I finally got around to saving it online as Private. I started with my interior space. When I went to upload it, the game made me also save anything that was connected to it. Okay. No problem there. I had it upload everything as Private.
Then when I go back to my exterior space scene, it's reverted back to when I first exported it as its own scene. Several hours of progress lost.
So, first question is obviously am I screwed? Is there a way to revert back to my previous save on my system?
If not, please tell me what the heck I did wrong so that I won't have this ever happen again. Really frustrated and depressed over this. I don't have a ton of time to work on this each week, so it's weeks worth of progress lost. :(
Maybe check on the Version and Releases tab in your creation?
Okay. Phew. That did it. I feel silly for panicking now, but holy hell did my stomach sink when I saw that old version.
Thank you!
Losing creations in dreams is too easy, they need to work on that. If you change the name of a creation (for example), all the previous versions get deleted. It makes no sense.
Have you tried going to the scene's 'genealogy and versions' page (or whatever it's called)? It keeps every saved version there. It's saved my ass multiple times.
*edit* beaten but I'm glad you figured it out.
Just put up a remixable mini golf hole, should be pretty user-friendly. Design your hole, place triggerzones over the playable area, set the par number for the hole, tweak the intro fly-by, and that should be it I think.
I'm coming back to this topic having not played the game in a couple of months and not really having kept up with it. Is there a list anywhere of essential levels to play? I don't really have the time (or imagination) to create anything but I enjoy seeing what other people have made.
Media Molecule now maintain a list of their favourite Dreams called 'MM Picks', which is a pretty good place to start :)
It's by no means an exhaustive list of all the good games though, there's heaps of good stuff outside of that.
Same here lol I am only playing until NSM update comes out, but the last few days I've been back trying to play as much as I can
It actually is! I've tried several good levels/dreams that way. I just wish there was a better way to browse it. Having to pick 1 by 1 to see the thumbnail is annoying. I wish there was a say to sort them in a way the thumbnail is bigger.
Time to make the Salute Your Shorts game I've always wanted.
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Nope. But we 30-somethings dreamers will party like it's 1992.
Omg, I lost like 2hrs playing a version of Tetris someone made. It has no right to be as addictive as the real thing lmao
Hey all
I released my second major Dreams project yesterday. It's called Cloud Roads and it's a racing/platformer hybrid sort of game that was somewhat inspired by the 90's DOS game "Skyroads"
Here's the link to the indreams page.
Here's what and old version of it looks like (again):
Let me know what ya think!
Side note: Does anyone know how to rearrange the order of the high score tables? currently mine is showing the stages all out of order.
I released my second major Dreams project yesterday. It's called Cloud Roads and it's a racing/platformer hybrid sort of game that was somewhat inspired by the 90's DOS game "Skyroads"
Here's the link to the indreams page.
Here's what and old version of it looks like (again):
Let me know what ya think!
Side note: Does anyone know how to rearrange the order of the high score tables? currently mine is showing the stages all out of order.
We can't change the order of Scoreboards yet, but I asked on feedback.indreams.me, so it's on the to-do list.
This thing is coming together QUICK! Last week all I had was a grey box test level and a main character. Since then, I've done all the environmental art, enemies (with path finding and states), a custom camera rig, and a bunch of audio work. It's already feeling polished enough to show off. Fuck I love Dreams.
Maybe some kind of timed puzzle/platformer? You could have the candle 'sink' into the base on a timer.
Make a sad game where youre on a journey before all your wax burns
there are more and more ambitious Dreams game now, it's really amazing to see. no idea if Dreams can break out to mainstream success, but it really deserves some big success. it got to win a bunch of awards or something
TFW you get back to camp after foraging and there's a tornado ripping through it:
Really fun little survival game: Castaway Survival
Really fun little survival game: Castaway Survival
Went to a games testing session today for Dreams. NDA so can't talk specifics on what they were testing but I had the best time. I've asked if I can share more and I'll let you know if they say yes. NDAs are normally about protecting secret stuff but it's something they've previously talked about so I hope it's ok
omg it's totally VR! (I'll take your silence as a yes :p)
Honestly, please do respect the NDA.
I've just been watching this video from Gamescom and Mark Healey mentioned that they're aiming for early next year for the full release. I believe this is the first time that it's been explicitly stated.
I'm wondering the same thing. Didn't someone at MM say there would be a major update in August? Could've sworn they did but I can't find any info on it.
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it has to be VR if they are NDA the gamescom thing.
unless its not and its something else like an online creation mode
Yeah I'm really hoping it's some big ticket feature like online multiplayer or VR. That or a bunch of smaller additions the creation tools. The updates so far have been a whole lotta nothing outside of improving the dreamiverse. Outside of some bugfixes the creation tools have basically haven't changed since the creator beta.
Little Nightmares but instead of grotesque malformed gluttons the enemies are just a bunch of watering cans and sprinklers.
I think MM are avoiding adding half-finished or potentially buggy features to try and prevent creations from breaking between updates. There were quite a few features that were dropped sometime before beta because they couldn't get them working as well as they liked, like the inventory system.
Adding new features is probably like their thermometer mantra: after giving something for creation, they can't take it back.
Yeah I think you're right. This the first time they mentioned next year for release.
I guess the main campaign is taking longer than expected. But early next year is heavily packed with heavy hitters. I wonder which month will they pick.
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polygon made an article about a game made in dreams.
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Trying to figure out a camera system. Was going to do straight 2D like Inside or something but I think I like being able to move in and out too.
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i like the one youre using now. also did you create that candle guy too? looks awesome.
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