Ancient Dangers: A Bat’s Talearrives inDreamstoday, to play or modify to your heart’s content
Media Molecule’s latest update forDreams, its user-created content suite, is tackling its creation tools. Alongside a Media Molecule-made adventure,Dreamsis also revamping some of its game creation and curation interface, which it refers to as DreamShaping 2.0.
DreamShaping is the phrase for making content—usually games but also short movies, art, or music—inDreams. The goal with the DreamShaping update, as Media Molecule says in anew PlayStation blog, is to make it easier and more fun to get started with making games inDreams.
The new DreamShaping includes some game templates and elements for making games in different genres. These include 2D platformers, side-scrolling shooters, dungeon crawlers, and even mini golf. Objectives and pointers will help guide players through the process, and additional resources will beavailable on the Templates section at indreams.me.
One of the options is a dedicated template forAncient Dangers: A Bat’s Tale, a new adventure created withinDreamsby the Media Molecule team. Twins Scoria and Gabbro venture deep into dungeon to fight monsters and put a stop to Granny Orc’s snoring.
New sections inDreamswill also promote elements to use in creation, as well as award-winningDreamscreators to follow and community events. Content shown on your in-game page will also be tailored to the player. New players will see content that helps with the basics, while longtimeDreamscreators will get some of the building blocks they might be looking for.
More detailed updates can be found in patch notes here. But it’s cool to see how Media Molecule has continued to build upDreamsas a platform for creation. User-made games haverepeatedly left a markon the industry, and it’s nice to seeDreamsevolving and refreshing to ensure its tools are helping more people get involved.
