Dreams could be the next Minecraft, but it will take a lot of time

Media Molecule’s creative suite offers huge possibilities.

At the heart of Dreams, the latest game by LittleBigPlanet studio Media Molecule, lies a simple yet radical concept: Anybody can be a creator.

[Felix_Argyle_Catbro]

And to be released on other platforms.

[Jin_Sakai]

Minecraft and dreams are completely different games. Dreams is more a creative tool while Minecraft is an open world playground.

Dreams requires skill to create unless you choose to play levels others build. Minecraft also has an incredibly easy learning curve which helps broaden the appeal. As good as Dreams is I don’t believe it will become the next Minecraft.

[naruga]

Jin Sakai ...Dreams has a learnig curve and is a serious tool while Minecraft is a childish editor , i agree that probably will never meet the appeal or broad audience of minecraft ,,,but could become the most popular intermediate step before professional engines like U4 ....some games really manage to reach almost "Mario quality" polish from very small teams .and probably Sony with MM will update the thing with more assets ..it s incredible what can you archive...

[rainslacker]

I think the nature of the creation is wildly different than Minecraft. Minecraft is somewhat simple with premade assets to use to create bigger things. One can make their own assets in MC, but it's not the core of the design system. Dreams is an asset creator, with a game engine built in, all packaged together as a game engine and sharing platform.

I do think it will have to release on more platforms to be "the next minecraft", but that's just a numbers game more than anything. I think Dreams will be popular on PlayStation though.

[AK91]

Eh I hope not considering what the Minecraft community has devolved into.

[Xaevi]

Can we stop comparing create style games to Minecraft and vice versa? Dreams isn't like Minecraft and Minecraft isn't like LBP or Dreams even if you can use it as a Lego game or MOD it

[Rimeskeem]

Nah, NMS is way more like Minecraft. Dreams is about sharing creativity over everything. You can do way more in dreams than in Minecraft with the given tools.

[THC CELL]

Report this as amen spam because there no competition to match these 2 games at at all

[uth11]

Dreams is only a better minecraft for the people who used minecraft as a creativity tool. Dreams does it better.

But Dreams is not a survival game (unless you make it one), also building isn't quite as easy as stacking blocks in minecraft, but worth it as you aren't stuck with the blocky look

[rainslacker]

One could recreate minecraft in Dreams. Can't say the same for the other way around.

[uth11]

You can create something with the look of minecraft, but I don't think you can create actual large minecraft worlds, the Dreams engine would choke on that many blocks

[rainslacker]

Minecraft is procedural, so the way it creates is different. However, it is possibly to create procedural content, although I'm not sure the extent to which that can be done in Dreams. Because of this, you can create large worlds. I'm not sure if the objects themselves can be created procedurally though, and may need to be pre-loaded. I'll have to look into it more, and there are a couple things I"m unsure of on how it renders objects that would have to be considered. Namely occlusion being available so not all the objects are rendered at once.