In your (game of) ‘Dreams’….

The game for games-makers?

First, what is ‘Dreams’? It’s a PS4 game about making games from Media Molecule, creators of LittleBigPlanet, and it’s making a splash, to say the least. It’s been described as much more than a creative tool, with labels like ‘the Youtube of interactive entertainment’ and ‘possibly the most expressive, accessible sketch book ever made’.

They’ve provided an impressive platform with easy-to-use tools, a creative community and a portal to a veritable ‘dream-verse’ of user-created content and mini-games. These may be beloved reconstructions of familiar or retro games and platformers, bizarre or surreal first-person adventures to completely new indie-style stories, realms and ideas.

You never know where or what you might end up creating or exploring when you start up Dreams.

It’s pretty ground-breaking stuff, since game design and development has always been confined to mystical teams working in secretive studios with years of geeky credentials. But thanks to the progress with graphical user interfaces, game engines and drag-and-drop…