Creators in Media Molecule's Dreams are already earning themselves jobs in game development. Dreams, which launched in February 2020, is a game creation system that gives players the tools and resources they need to create games for others to play or access games made by other players. The community-oriented system is much like the developer's previous LittleBigPlanet games, which featured a mode that allowed players to create their own levels and share them with the community.
Dreams, however, takes the concepts of LittleBigPlanet's creation system and blows it out of the water. Dreams is solely about creation and gives players the control of a customizable creature called an "imp" who interacts with the game's world to create characters and items, as well as manipulate objects. The imp can also take control of characters in individual dreams, which allows the player to control those characters directly. Through the use of the imp, players can create games of their own or play games created by others. The idea behind Dreams is to ignite the creativity of future game developers, giving them easy tools to work with, as well as a strong player community, to help bring their actual dreams to life.
It seems that Dreams has already inspired the next generation of game developers. According to Escapist Magazine, several Dreams creators have already been offered jobs in game development. Although some Dreams creators already know programming and game development, others are new to the process, including Jimmyjules153, who used Dreams to create a game called Blade Gunner, inspired by Resogun. As a result, his game was not only chosen as a featured game by Media Molecule but earned him a job offer from a European game development studio.
Dreams has already made rock stars out of several creators, including Robo_Killer_V2, who created a stunning recreation of Fallout 4 with the Dreams game engine. Creator RikisCafe earned a place in Dreams history by creating a hilarious recreation of Red Dead Online. In addition, the appeal of Dreams seems to be broad: creators come from a variety of backgrounds, including those already working in the industry, but also those who aren't.
Perhaps that's why Jimmyjules153's story is so inspiring: here's someone who had never created a game before who used Dreams and ended up with a job in the industry. As it seems that game development studios are paying attention to what creators are posting in Dreams, he likely won't be the last creator to get recruited. Dreams is making game creation accessible to the masses and putting easy game creation tools into the hands of those who want to use them, thereby inspiring an entirely new generation of game makers.
Source: Escapist Magazine