afrocentricity
Part of first caf team to complete Destiny raid
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Nobody else wanted to start this thread so I guess I'll do it:
It's free to play apparently so you can't really lose.
I was watching one of the developers just building an action/adventure type platformer yesterday and it really is crazy what can be done with this. You can guarantee that there will be people bothered to put in the effort of making the best games possible, and in some senses I'm hoping this will partially reignite the JRPG genre. You could absolutely make a top drawer JRPG, action RPG, adventure game, platformer or whatever here, and I'm guessing about 2 years down the line at least a few of the best next gen games will actually be Project Spark games. When you look at what people have managed with RPG maker and then see just how much more powerful this is then you start to appreciate what can be done with it.
They have said nothing about it's own game/story though, you're right, although it's a bit difficult to see what they would do with that to be honest. LBP is far more narrow in scope and the game itself is more defined, where as the Project Spark developers themselves aren't even sure what the limits are, so pinning it down to some sort of single player campaign wouldn't make too much sense. This is the one you should watch to get a good idea:
From 8:00 onwards, that's when you can clearly see the potential of what can be done here. It's not just 5miles by 5 miles across at it's largest, but also 5 miles upwards! There are infinite of these worlds you can link to in just one game (they've already showed a type of JRPG 'world map/overworld' that someone has made for one game - very similar to Chrono Cross' actually), but just one level could easily have a greater landmass than GTA considering that you can do things like underground worlds, mountains and floating islands too.