Engadget article summary (copy from GAF):
- The first thing you should know about Dreams is, it'll have a traditional campaign
- This content will act as both a standalone adventure and a tutorial for creation.
- This blurring of the lines between gameplay, creation, and sharing is key in Dreams.
- There will be a beta. Dreams' beta testers will be able to remix and modify Media Molecule's levels. They'll be able to experiment and create their own games using pre-existing assets or create entirely new ones.
- Right now, only around 30 people are making in-game dreams. Getting thousands of people beta testing and making things is going to be huge for the team.
- You can make amazing first-person shooter levels if that's what you want to do.
- The team is dreaming of the "new game genres" that could be created within Dreams.
- Dreams offers "a full-on game-development system" in which Media Molecule staffers have already built their own takes on titles like MotorStorm and Tetris.
- You'll even be able to add your own cut scenes, animating characters using the controller and recording the results.
- VR support basically confirmed.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/30/dreams-ps4-paris-games-week/
Sounds really interesting. At first I thought it was a game only for people who wanted to build their own dreams/games, which is not me. Now I understand that it will have a pre-made "campaign" that includes a variety of scenarios, and also that, by the time it releases, beta players will have generated hundreds if not thousands of "dreams" for other players to play with.
I hope they market this well. It could be tricky. I'm a fairly tuned-in gamer, and it took me a while before I understood what this game consisted of. I'm still a bit fuzzy, but it has caught my eye now. It seems really creative, and who knows, I might have fun "playing" in a way that games rarely offer (i.e., creating your own playground, rather than just playing pre-made content). Even if I don't get into the creation aspect, I like the idea of having thousands of games/dreams designed by other players to mess around with. It sure is unique.