mckmas8808
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There's much more highresy stuff from the old/failed engines in the PDF
HOLY SMOKES! Looks like two faces here. I love where MM is going.
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Media Molecule Announces New IP, Dreams
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HOLY SMOKES! Looks like two faces here. I love where MM is going.
Shin-Ra
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I want to splat with splats.Let's be honest, with the kind of engine they've created here, all manner of nightmare fuel is inevitably going to be created. The graphics have such a surreal and otherworldly style to them that I wouldn't be surprised if the game ends up being more suited to darker imagery than family-friendly stuff. Even in the LittleBigPlanet games there were folks who attempted to create horror levels, but of course they were constrained by creation tools intended for the world's most cuddly 2D platformer, so it didn't really work. Those types of people are going to have an absolute field day with Dreams.
Nightmares. They should just call it Nightmares and be done with it.
One of the best eye-candy effects of last-gen.
The Mad Draklor
Member
Another native res shot from the current renderer:
Mother of god... that looks amazing
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Please let Dreams be Morpheus bound. Please. Can you fucking imagine.
I never thought of this. This could be horrifying with Morpheus. And with the moving through different Dreams mechanic, someone could create something like P.T.Let's be honest, with the kind of engine they've created here, all manner of nightmare fuel is inevitably going to be created. The graphics have such a surreal and otherworldly style to them that I wouldn't be surprised if the game ends up being more suited to darker imagery than family-friendly stuff. Even in the LittleBigPlanet games there were folks who attempted to create horror levels, but of course they were constrained by creation tools intended for the world's most cuddly 2D platformer, so it didn't really work. Those types of people are going to have an absolute field day with Dreams.
Nightmares. They should just call it Nightmares and be done with it.
This really does look like the most innovative game of the gen. I don't think it's online only. LittleBigPlanet worked offline.
Dead Prince
Banned
i think it'll be online to some extent for online compute like what microsoft is doing with cloud compute in Crackdown3. that or they are coding to the metal on ps4 and doing all this using the hardware only ;P idk. we'll need more.
No, they won't be using cloud compute for any visuals you see, local resources only.
1.21Gigawatts
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DICE acknoledged Media Molecules work in its presentation about rendering pipelines.
Short article about it: http://gearnuke.com/dice-acknowledges-media-molecules-dreams-pushing-boundaries-real-time-rendering/
DICE presentation: http://www.frostbite.com/2015/08/the-rendering-pipeline-challenges-next-steps/
Short article about it: http://gearnuke.com/dice-acknowledges-media-molecules-dreams-pushing-boundaries-real-time-rendering/
DICE presentation: http://www.frostbite.com/2015/08/the-rendering-pipeline-challenges-next-steps/
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
No video of the Media Molecule presentation yet?
1.21Gigawatts
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About few articles about it and the slides are availabale but not video that I'm aware of.
Btw. Media Molecule is also talking about point clouds which is the same stuff these australian guys from euclideon with their unlimited detail engine talked about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKUuUvDSXk4
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
I actually remember seeing that. Are we looking at a potential revolutionary step from MM? I'm sure Sony will be keen on using this tech in future projects if it really can deliver on what is promised in that video. It seems to me that MM = ICE team 2
It's still not perfect but their newer video shows how that technology has moved on.
Euclideon Makes Worlds Most Realistic Graphics
IAmRandom31
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They are definitely a talented group of programmers no doubt. But that seems to be a norm within WWS at this point in time. You have GG, SMS, ND, Evolution as the main AAA tech wizards. Then you have Japan Studio, MM and Q Games, as teams that can at any given time put out technical masterpieces of their own, but usually on a smaller scale game or AA type game. Q Games with The Tomorrow Children and their attempt at real time raytracing which they mostly succeeded at. I believe they are calling it Cascaded Voxel Cone Raytracing for their lighting system. You have The Last Guardian being made with an insanely detailed animation system and AI system.
This work by MM is truly spectacular also. It is going to be nuts having tools this powerful at your fingertips being able to make really anything you want, or take someone else idea or " dream " and build on it. Hopefully they can a large influx of funds with Tearaway coming out in just a few weeks.
Gotta say that what this game is doing with graphics and rendering is unlike anything I've ever seen before in gaming. In general, actually, I don't think I've ever seen a game like this before. It truly looks "next gen" and I can't wait to see whatever they're showing next.
Media Molecule are insane, and Tearaway Unfolded looks so amazing.
Media Molecule are insane, and Tearaway Unfolded looks so amazing.
1.21Gigawatts
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What they are doing is quite a bit different from MMs approach though.
First of all Euclideons stuff, at least the browser demo released, is extremely CPU intensive, while MM uses GPU compute.
They also seem to focus on environmental scans and haven't yet shown how they would implement dynamic lighting, destructions or anything dynamic, while MM focussed very much on everything beeing absolutely dynamic. Its a sculpting tool afterall.
But I know basically nothing about tech, I just notices that they both used the term "point cloud".
Still very eager to learn more about Dreams and the tech behind.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
Wow, that was actually a really cool and interesting presentation!
Didn't know he had such a potty mouth too
jackissocool
Member
MM is very underrated for tech. I'd argue they're on a level with ND, SSM, and Guerrilla. Incredible tech skill there but not as obvious because if their art style.
Holy shit! Am I being premature in calling this "revolutionary"?
Pankratous
Member
Any chance this game will be adopted by schools / colleges / universities for like, some kind of abstract art creation?
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
A lot of LBP's tech came from Sony Cambridge working with them. Not sure if any members will have permanently become a part of MM as a result of that close working relationship, but thats how it was. It seems at least one of the top guys came from the rest of Sony to work on Dreams from the most recent talk.
Not to downplay MM, but Cambridge regularly got the short shrift for all the stuff they used to do in the background. And now they're "Guerilla" so... lol.
Studio tour from yesterday.
]Our First Twitch Dev Diary - Studio Tour and Behind-The-Scenes with Dreams! - 26.19 - YouTube
]Our First Twitch Dev Diary - Studio Tour and Behind-The-Scenes with Dreams! - 26.19 - YouTube