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Everything You Need to Know about Dreams.
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So us poor souls who live in North America will have to sit and watch the rest of the world playing with Dreams while we stare at our clocks. Enjoy the head start you lucky bastards!
Ha ha!
Finally, revenge for having to wait nonsensical amounts of time to play things, like 18 years for EarthBound XD.
I'll be at work during the time it's live so I'm okay with it
I'm predicting some greatness from them. I would love to see one where they all have to make a game on their own time and then they all play each others creations.
It seems I will come late to work that day. No way I am missing this due work's blocked internet
just don't forget if you have use password at checkout you are ready for that too.
Well, that should do it. :) Ha. I just had a week off so I can't take any more time off at the moment, but I'll try to download it from the Playstation Store online. I am EDT so it's 11:30am and I'll be at work.
Oh, do we get an EA OT?
Im lucky and my job lets you take your birthday as a paid "holiday" which just so happens to be a day from release so my boss didnt mind.
Goodluck to everyone getting in!
Do we know if it'll have asia release too? Wondering if I should just get it from US store or wait until it's available in my country
I know ill have it in my hands soon but i have 1 big question I havent been able to find an answer to.
I know I can connect a LOT of levels together to form large games but what are the limitations to connected levels?
Can I complete 50% of level A, jump to level B, 100% it, then with a new item gained in lvl B go back and finish A?
Can you make a metroid game where each region is its own level and jump back and forth between levels and retain progress made in each?
I know I can connect a LOT of levels together to form large games but what are the limitations to connected levels?
Can I complete 50% of level A, jump to level B, 100% it, then with a new item gained in lvl B go back and finish A?
Can you make a metroid game where each region is its own level and jump back and forth between levels and retain progress made in each?
No time limit, but "space is limited". So even if you can't play until the 24th you might want to grab it on the 16th.
Yes, but the ability to do that isn't automatic.
I don't remember if you can make a level's state persist between level loads, but any form of progress that should persist between levels can be stored as persistent variables. So you can have variables for whether x item was obtained or y blockade in whatever level was destroyed and so on. There's no built in inventory system or concept of "items," so that stuff will have to be created manually using logic and variables.
Moving between levels isn't a problem at all since levels don't necessarily have to have a linear order and doors can be made to go in either direction. IIRC all games (and every dream with more than 1 scene for that matter) come with a built in level select. The results of playing levels out of order can be a bit weird though.
Awesome! I'll probably end up spending a good amount of time seeing the effects of jumping between levels with different variables before getting too deep into things.
I wonder how they're handling this, do they have a system in place tied to PSN to stop further payments from processing after a certain number are bought? I mean since it isn't a beta sign up I assume if your order goes through then you're good to go and can install the client immediately. I assume we can dive in on the 16th and there isn't a future launch time also.
I assume they'll just announce a cut off date once they have idea of the rate the game is selling.
Internally, they must have a number in mind of how many copies they want to sell this early access
Probably just monitor sales counts and take down the listing when their target number is reached. Will be interesting to see how long that takes.
The inventory/variables that you can pass from level to level are a finite size. Easiest to keep that low would be to use one bit per collectable/destroyable item to indicate "delete" then tag all the items with the unique bit code plus a "temp item" tag. On level load destroy all temp items that have the bit code set in inventory. Or something like that. But if you need to remember movable item (eg. roaming enemy) location the you need more space for the other attributes or just randomise again on re-entry.
Do we even know what the limit on the number of variables is? Has anyone at MM said? Obviously there has to be a limit, but there's nothing that seems to indicate that there is one, so it might be crazy high. Storing multiple flags in a single variable seems like a good idea though, just in case.
Sweet! I coincidentally have a week off work from the 16th.
Not normal update for the UK though so they must be doing that manually-ish
I just realized that this is the first project MM has launched in a long time. Tearaway Unfolded was what, 2014? I'm really hoping sales of early access exceed their expectations, I'm sure development hasn't been easy and seeing a return for the passion they put in would be really nice.
Easy. They already announced that they have a huge number of slots for this early access and I also believe the number will be so huge, that it won't even get maxed out at all and they will rather end it after a specific time then having all slots sold.
That they have different timed releases, even days later in Japan as example confirms this theory a bit.
It's hilarious how many people act here like it's potentially gone after 10 minutes. I don't think they want this shitstorm. So they probably doubled or tripled the slots from the beta and when they see it's not going up anymore or 2 weeks past by then they end it.
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