I'm pretty certain 100% certain that will still be entirely possible, they've said that you can just interact via the 'Imp' in a level, and I can't imagine them not including an entirely disembodied option. There's a few moments in some of the vids where you see brief glimpses of first person gameplay.

"You can make amazing first-person shooter levels if that's what you want to do," explained Evans. We've already seen racing and flying games in sizzle reels, and the team is dreaming of the "new game genres" that could be created within Dreams.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/30/dreams-ps4-paris-games-week/

sounds legit

I'm no great shakes at art, but I have an imagination.  If this allows me to cook up some of the weird shit floating around in my head in spite of my artistic shortcomings then that'll be very cool.  So yeah, hope the unoriginal stuff gets voted down.

Oh ye of little faith..

It can be played entirely with the Dualshock, doesn't even need a camera, I don't think they even had a camera for that twitch demo. Just using the gyros in the controllers, very impressive.

Used Move controllers can be bought for peanuts in local game retailers, usually new condition too as there's hardly been much use for them.

EDIT: Correction; they did have a camera for the demo. It's still playable without a camera, but you lose the Z axis control (I think an analogue stick can be used in this case). DS4 + camera will be better.

That sounds great!  I want to have faith, I really do.  Along with No Man's Sky this is the most current gen (everything else seems so last gen) game on the horizon.  But it just looks so niche.  Whatever form the playable 'main story' takes, it's going to have to seriously dazzle in order to gain traction with the masses.

I'm getting a bit tired of the 'masses' tbh.

The thing with this is that it is the least niche of all games that are coming out, in that you can probably make any kind of game with it. There will almost certainly be some absolutely superb RPG, RTS, FPS, etc games that people will make for it, especially if the netcode is up to scratch and collaboration is a doddle.

Communication of this by MM is a bit of a problem atm, but to be fair they're a small team and I think they've rebuilt the engine so many times (and finished recently) that i doubt they've had time to put together a really solid demo a number of genre's/playstyles. Community curation will be key, with the 'links' that van be placed in a level you could see hubs created that take visitors to various dreams, e.g. a street where behind every house door lies a different world. I bet they'll do some kind of non-linear story actually.

Here's the create part of that stream that someone's cut out, really amazing stuff. -

Yeah, same. Meant to say pleasantly surprised when these kind of things get made.

In the stream they said the current pipeline for exporting sculpts is via a website, I guess the raw files from the PS4 get uploaded to a server where some clever bit of code converts the models to a standard format (.3DS I would think).

Some gifs someone made from the PGW vid -



The other two as links so the page doesn't get too busy -

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Not worth a purchase just to play rather than create?

LBP was definitely hampered by it's 2.5D platforming nature, IIRC there wasn't too many examples of really tight and reactive gameplay outside of the standard Sackboy controls (and many weren't too keen on those either).

How responsive and fine-grained the gameplay can be within Dreams is still a bit of a mystery atm. I think point and clicks, RPGs, walk-em-ups and other game styles that don't require complex inputs will be quite nice. 3D action, FPSs, shmups, racing, RTS, all those are an unknown in regards to how playable they will really be. It will depend on the quality and breadth of the tools provided and basic engine and physics performance.

I think they will pull it off, maybe not entirely, that will take a sequel or two. But I'm pretty hyped to get stuck in and see what's possible. If you're into Journey, Dear Esther, and other 'atmospheric' games, and you're the sort of aesthetically driven person who spends a lot of time wandering and exploring worlds (like me ) then I absolutely think you're going to get a lot of value from just playing this. This is a massive leap from Littlebigplanet.

That was close, Gurt.  We almost lost him.

New Twitch stream showing more of the sculpting and creation capabilities. Tearaway initially, Dreams starts at 21:35.

I recently played NaissanceE and was blown away by the brutalist, repeating, almost fractal nature of the architecture. It left me wanting more that kind of environment in games.

It looks like Dreams will be excellent for creating these kind of structures -

Absolutely fantastic for the PlayStation brand... I'll probably never touch it.

It really does look like super impressive tech.  I just don’t know if I’d buy it without going the whole hog and buying the PSVR headset and a couple of wand thingies to go with it.  So merely watching with interest so far.