Yeah thats what I was leaning towards cause this makes sense.
Is there any digital deal? Or Playstation gift card deal?
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Dreams |OT| What Games Are Made Of
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Is there any digital deal? Or Playstation gift card deal?
Fan-made trailer we made showcasing the breadth of creation possible in Dreams, this trailer shows off many of the different genres of games made in Dreams:
There is an in-game collection where all of the Dreams in this video can be found and added to your queue
There is an in-game collection where all of the Dreams in this video can be found and added to your queue
Kotaku just put this article:
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There's not much new for some people, but for people starting, it has a few good advice; specially for new creators:
How To Get Started Making Things In Dreams
Dreams isn’t just a game. It’s a creativity incubator with endless possibilities. If you can dream it, you can create it. Want to make a breakfast that looks more realistic than a Naughty Dog cutscene? Go for it! A cute kaiju boat-eating simulator? Sure! A recreation of the Air Buster boss fight...
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There's not much new for some people, but for people starting, it has a few good advice; specially for new creators:
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From the start page go my profile > my creations. You can't delete stuff that's published online. You can archive it
I might be the only one but i feel the "game x made in Dreams" threads doesn't help promote Dreams at all, on the contrary. At best, a very tiny fragment of "game x" is being recreated without any indication that it will ever grow into anything more than that in the future, assuming that it would indeed be possible (which will almost never be the case). There will never be a Fallout 4, Assasin's Creed, Sonic, Fifa or whatever else game being made in Dreams and that's totally fine by me.
Meanwhile, solid attempts at fun, fully fledged and original games are being ignored. I'd rather see a thread about games like Spherical, which seems real, fun, well thought out and realistically do-able, tbh.
Meanwhile, solid attempts at fun, fully fledged and original games are being ignored. I'd rather see a thread about games like Spherical, which seems real, fun, well thought out and realistically do-able, tbh.
Day two (ish) of my project and I've added a couple of things, but the death animation I tried didn't work out too well. I rerouted the signal from "no life" to go past a timeline where a keyframe plays, and then back to the "dead" input. But that always leaves me with the puppet de-possessed. It's supposed to, for now, just respawn.
I'll get back to that. I've started setting up some gameplay elements. It took a while to get a box working. I want to be able to push it, but that presented new challenges. One is aligning it to the 2D plane, which I did with a follower and a gyro (otherwise I can just push past it like a turnstile). But since it's on a gyro, it won't tilt on slopes. Slopes themself also present a problem since the character sort of slides down them at 45 degrees, even though I've set it to be able to walk on 50 degrees. I guess it's a physics thing. Finally, it took a lot of time to arrange a pushing animation. I now have a sensor in the box, so if the player comes near it stretches out its arms. The keyframe also changes the collision box for the player so that it's wider, otherwise you can move into the box even though the hands are pushing forward. It's a little glitchy and I'd like for the box to feel heavier (I've increased the weight and friction of it but I guess the movement strength of the puppet pushes through regardless).
Either way it's beginning to actually feel like a game when there's actual interaction and stuff. Tomorrow I'll have a look at some combat animation.
I'll get back to that. I've started setting up some gameplay elements. It took a while to get a box working. I want to be able to push it, but that presented new challenges. One is aligning it to the 2D plane, which I did with a follower and a gyro (otherwise I can just push past it like a turnstile). But since it's on a gyro, it won't tilt on slopes. Slopes themself also present a problem since the character sort of slides down them at 45 degrees, even though I've set it to be able to walk on 50 degrees. I guess it's a physics thing. Finally, it took a lot of time to arrange a pushing animation. I now have a sensor in the box, so if the player comes near it stretches out its arms. The keyframe also changes the collision box for the player so that it's wider, otherwise you can move into the box even though the hands are pushing forward. It's a little glitchy and I'd like for the box to feel heavier (I've increased the weight and friction of it but I guess the movement strength of the puppet pushes through regardless).
Either way it's beginning to actually feel like a game when there's actual interaction and stuff. Tomorrow I'll have a look at some combat animation.
How hard must it be to make AI in this game? I Imagine a game like this would do very well with it. And would MP be possible?
Bunch of ways to save time creating. My scene needed a mountain, and there was no way I was going to spend the next 30 minutes making one from scratch. Quick search and I got what I was looking for!
They definitely streamlined the whole process of creating
They definitely streamlined the whole process of creating
Honestly? No idea. Online MP is out of the question for now, but local MP would be doable.
Hoping the move to PS5 would open up possibilities for AI and multiplayer.
Everyone should try out this 2D game. Absolutely great and hopefully more great levels are coming in the future. Was just added today it seems.
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Dreams PS4 - AMAZING! This charming 2D Game is one of the BEST made In Dreams
Dreams PS4 - There are quite some good 3D games made in Dreams and also some fantastic 2D games. But this creation with Japanese charm is one the best 2D gam...
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Sony had the budget to send Sean Murray to Stephen Colbert in promoting No Man's Sky. They should do the same with Dreams tbh.
My text and exploration heavy glitchwave adventure is coming along. I am sort of loving the low thermo pursuit of large, dense worlds. I'll get to painting/stroking up the joint later. Using a lot of lovely community music as temp/inspiration while I scrum.
Feel free to give it a queue/looksee/whirl. By my guesstimate, I'm probably about a tenth of the way done with this bit.
Feel free to give it a queue/looksee/whirl. By my guesstimate, I'm probably about a tenth of the way done with this bit.
Got a rough future cop mech up and running. Not sure how I'm going to transform it to the hover tank yet. But my priority is the auto targeting aiming system with moving reticle... No idea where to even start with that though? Not seen anyone do it already where I could take it from either... 🤔
Maybe creating a tag that each targetable object has a point camera object when L2'd or something. Probably lots of ways to get it going.
I personally think that the amount of "this game, but in Dreams" is bad optics for Dreams because it doesn't show the really unique games that are out there, and unfortunately it is all the conversation that exists because Sony has completely dropped the ball on marketing it effectively. The focus on other IPs -- most of which try to replicate the aesthetic of those games -- misrepresents the truly unique aesthetic that Dreams has to offer as a game engine and the creativity of all the games and artistic pieces being made in it.
I can't remember a Sony first party title that got such great reviews ever getting so little marketing support. They just pushed it out to sea and said, "Good luck!"
I can't remember a Sony first party title that got such great reviews ever getting so little marketing support. They just pushed it out to sea and said, "Good luck!"
Since supposedly no new Conker yet...From Reddit:
As might as well.
It's especially weird seeing how Shuhei Yoshida love Dreams and how Sony said they're going to support it for 10 years. It's unfortunate but I still think recreating other IPs is the best shot Dreams have currently just to get the word out.
Agreed. And especially considering "______ remade in Dreams" is pretty clickbaity, since typically it's only a tiny slice of whatever game they're remaking. And since they're comparing it directly to AAA titles the creators are aping, it makes Dreams not hold up super well, since OBVIOUSLY a single person can't properly replicate the work of dozens or hundreds of people.
I much prefer seeing the original creations people make, or even stuff that is clearly inspired by another game, like Pip Gemwalker being a game in the STYLE of Captain Toad's Treasure Tracker. Which, by the way, is a great style of game to try and do, since it's pretty small scale and somewhat feasible for one person to do and have it actually hold up well.
But I think regardless of everything else complete mimickry of an existing game will help creators really learn about game development and design from those established IPs so I wouldn't rule out those creators to be inspired to create something original in the future.
for my cave flyer I think I used a looke ]r set to a specific tag so it was always facing the same way - allowed it to rotate left/right while locking any rotation in the other two axes. You can also try tweaking the gyro to see if you can exclude specific axes so it will allow tilting
Here's a question for some of you "Dreamers" who have an ample amount of hands-on experience with the creation suite:
How difficult would it be to create a narrative, text and dialogue driven adventure game with multiple branching story paths?
Speaking as someone who is a writer and might want to flex is writing skills.
How difficult would it be to create a narrative, text and dialogue driven adventure game with multiple branching story paths?
Speaking as someone who is a writer and might want to flex is writing skills.
The problem is it puts MM in a shit position because they can't advertise or feature any of it.
It's not a bad thing for viral marketing, but the thing Dreams needs most is high quality original content.
That should be pretty straightforward to do I think. There's already a few out there.
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That depends on a lot of things. Do you want to use animations and cameras? Do you want a character that can move around and talk to people in different orders? NPCs that do things and stand in different places afterwards?
I'm making something like that at the moment, and the logic has become far more complex than I had expected.
The dialogue writing took me 3 days, but putting the whole thing together took me 3 months. So if you want to concentrate on the writing and get something done in a reasonable time frame, my advice is to keep all other aspects as simple as possible. Everything in Dreams is relatively easy to do in isolation, but if you want them to work together as a whole, it's a whole different story.
Just spent half an hour playing a few Dreams pinball tables. This is the one thing I really want to make, and there are already some really impressive ones available. Great stuff.
It should be same price for either unless your retailer is overcharging
So I'm assuming I can make a Resident Evil type game of sorts as long as it's within the realm of cartoon violence?
The game uses x as confirm in the JP release. : (
The game uses x as confirm in the JP release. : (
Branching paths are super easy with the door/portal system and being able able to link to different levels.
Also here is a protip - when you're in the creation editor on your PS4 and using the text gadget, the InDreams.me website has a "keyboard" tool that you can paste text into, and it appears right in the game!
If you mean the homespace, yes, absolutely. Go to "Dream Shaping" and it will walk you through a tutorial that includes decorating your own homespace, and unlocks "imp quests" that further unlock goodies (and more imp variations!)
We need reverse monster hunter game where we play as monsters and kill those poacher