With Dreams finally on the market (albeit only for the PlayStation 4), high-thinking creatives and aspiring game designers can now bring their thoughts to life like never before. Media Molecule’s work on previous titles, like the Little Big Planet franchise, proves that fun isn’t the only ingredient to its games. Critical thinking, puzzle-solving, and cooperation remain at the forefront of its world design. They want to push this envelope even further into a new realm, that of virtual reality.
Dreams VR will allow players to leap headlong into their own mind’s eye and, luckily, it’s debuting pretty soon.
It has taken seven years for Media Molecule to finish developing Dreams to its fullest, so it makes sense that VR would at least a little more time. Fortunately, Co-Founder Alex Evans explained in a Eurogamer interview that, “VR is in the pipeline and is actually nearly done.” Evans also describes a secret project and collaboration coming soon in that same interview, proving that Media Molecule has maintained a busy schedule.
With a VR mode, Dreams will be open to a wide range of options, potentially making its interface far easier to use. It might even give the game applications far beyond the scope of simple enjoyment. Dreams VR could be applied to a wide range of fields, from therapy to design, it’s all about how creators use it. Describing in detail the potential of upcoming free updates, Evans says:
Even nightmares are possible in Dreams.
“And VR is the most cooked of them. And then we’ll release them as and when we can. I imagine we will have paid content - maybe if we got Kojima’s Dreams, you know, if you’re reading this Kojima come on down and we’ll make Kojima’s Dreams.”
Not only does Dreams itself allow players to create beautiful video game universes, but it also has an endless list of already existing ones just waiting to be explored. From lifelike breakfast creations to even recreating PT, Dreams has infinite potential and insight to unlock in every creator. For the time it spends available on the PS4 (and even potentially on PC), its VR counterpart will be filled with an unending list of curated worlds that will only fuel the imagination.
Dreams is available now for $40 on the PlayStation store. Try it out, if only to anticipate diving right in once VR is finally born.
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