Dreams
Dreams is a video game where players can create and play user-generated content in the forms of games,
audiovisual experiences and game assets, which can be shared or remixed to be used in other players' creations.
My employers were commissioned by the creators, Sony studio Media Molecule, to create a racing experience using Dreams, with access to the game code to add any
extra features as needed. Within 6 months we had created a karting game with 3 tracks where you could race against 7 AI
racers, with full race logic, power-ups, intro/end sequences and audio. The majority of this was created using
out-of-the-box Dreams, including their visual scripting language, except for a few extra visual scripting nodes that we
wrote, mostly to support racing splines and AI racers.
I enjoyed taking on a wide variety of jobs on this project, including:
- Scripting a lot of the more complex race logic (at least for the visual scripting system) such as calculating your position in the race.
- Scripting a "heat-seeking" missile that targets the player in front of you.
- Selecting and setting up most of the sounds effects and music tracks.
- Adding and modifying visual scripting nodes in the games underlying C++ code.
