A few people have mentioned Dreams to me especially in respect to interactive experiences and creating your own.
I don’t own a PlayStation 4 (although I just ordered the Playstation Classic) but ever since I saw Little Big Planet’s creation mode, been blown away by the possibilities. So I was impressed they doubled down on this feature in Dreams.
However there is something which bugs me…
Imagine putting all that work into your dream/world (as such), because some of them look incredible. Who owns the dream?
I’m wondering if there is a export mode for the dreams? If there was, how would it be exported? A flatten video wouldn’t cut it. You almost need something like Google Stadia, but thats also a unknown entity too (although maybe this is what the Microsoft and Sony thing is all about?). Ultimately I’d hate to spend hours/days/weeks working on something incredible and for it to be stuck in a world which could die in the next generation of the console or if the game doesn’t sell well enough? I won’t even mention ip challenges of the dreams…
Maybe it was time for a exportable descriptive language for interactive narratives which is platform neutral?
Just a thought…