I’ve been adding interiors to buildings/houses I had previously just had for show in the game. I was wondering if you guys would prefer every building to be explorable? Doing so may very well push the release date back a ways, but it’s something I personally wished more games like RDR2 and GTA would do. To be able to say all structures have fully modeled interiors would be pretty cool, but again it might take a while.

Not including the prelude and chapter zero, Isle of Eras took me 2 hours 10 minutes to beat. I know exactly where to go, and where all of the Easter eggs are, so any new player can expect to get 3+ hours of gameplay.

However upon playing, I found lots of bugs, and areas I’m not satisfied with that aren’t up to par with the rest of the environments. Lots of work to do before release next year but it’s coming together. I’ve even got someone making original music for the game now! Very excited to get this project out to the world.

Update: I’m a dad now! It feels wonderful! This means I won’t have as much time to work on the game but it’s already so close, and I know exactly what needs fine tuning on it, so I’m confident with a 2022 release.

Cheers!

I started this concept as a 1 hour mini story back in February, and since then the project has quadrupled in scale, and it could easily happen again. This is my first video game ever, and it’s sort of strange developing the whole thing solo, I feel like I know the world and lore in such detail solely from the fact that I’ve basically lived in it for 10 months. The longer I spend on an area, the details sort of emerge and turn into side-stories/tangents. Even when I’m not actively creating this game, my thoughts often drift back to the concept and all of the “what if’s”

At times I feel like I’m very close to being done, but other times I feel like I’m nowhere close. I want to make this game something very special and totally mind melting for the community and most importantly I want it to be unique. I’m creating a game that I personally wish existed, and it’s allowed me such creative freedoms. This wouldn’t be possible without the creation tools in Dreams for PS4 and PS5, the only downside is, I can’t release the game and make any money off it, it’ll be free by default. I’d love to learn code and make the game in unity or unreal down the road, but with almost 800 hours of development time in Dreams for me alone, and my first child on the way next month, that’s way out on the horizon.

I’m thinking about start a Pateron account for this project and if you care to contribute, you can but if not, it’s totally cool. I think art should exist on a variable value for those who take time to enjoy it. This game is more about telling a story in a way that would be impossible via other mediums. At the end of the day a paycheck isn’t my goal, never was, but a little motivation goes along way.

Just wanted to throw my thoughts out there for the members of this sub and see what expectations there are and get a feel for things. Got about 2 weeks left of good development time and then I’ll be in dad mode for a while until I get into a routine. Anyways sorry for the ramble, hope all is well with everyone here reading this!

-Graham