Difference between revisions of "Dream: Land of Giants"

Project Dream started out as a seafaring RPG for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, with the intent of being Rareware's masterpiece on the console. Development started in 1994-5, and at one point, it was determined that Dream was too big for the SNES, so it was moved to the Nintendo 64, to be retooled as a 3D RPG, featuring unique 3D environments created by stretching out the polygons.

However, the Nintendo 64 didn't have enough processing power to maintain such environments at a steady frame rate. Taking inspiration from ''Conker's Twelve Tales'' (which was being developed by the ''Killer Instinct'' team, and would eventually become ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conker%27s_Bad_Fur_Day Conker's Bad Fur Day]''), Dream was remade by the development team (which had also worked on ''Donkey Kong Country'') into a 3D platformer in the vein of ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_64%7C Super Mario 64]'', but kept some of the elements of the RPG. After deeming Edison to be "generic", Rare began to experiment with several woodland characters that had previously been secondary characters, including a dopey dog, a rabbit that looked like a man, and a bear. That bear character would eventually become [[Banjo]].

There was a demo of Dream with a full introduction sequence and one level, and according to composer Grant Kirkhope, if it still exists, it may be locked away somewhere at Rare's headquarters.

Project Dream, while not offering too much of a story, tells the tale of a boy adventurer by the name of [[Edison]] who, along with his girlfriend, Madeleine, gets tangled up with a bunch of no-good pirates named Flintlock Jock, Grim Jim, and their leader, the infamous [[Captain Blackeye]], who commands the pirate ship known as the ''Mudplugger''.