My Ideas For Future Features & Changes
I know the feedback site is quite filled with posts in general, so I will try to keep this post as short as I can. There have been, over time, a lot of ideas I came up with that may, in my opinion, be nice additions, or general smaller improvements.
This is just a list for those.
1 - Spectralizer // Audio Visualizer Gadget
Although people have sone volume visualizations for their audio centered creations, and there even have been attempts at designning actual and accurate frequency dependant visualizers, there isn't any intuitive way to do so. Mainly, that's due to the reason that none of the volume outputs let you split to parts of the frequency specruum or scan for them. Seeing a feature for this would be nice, as it enables more possibilities for audio-visual creations.
2 - Vector Graphic Gadget // Tool
Many people in the community use either the background of a text displayer, or, since their addition, the opaque square fleck, for UI backgrounds, or general menus or shapes. Having a tool that is specifically designed for that area would be prefered, as it would open up the door to more possibilities for shapes for clean shape design. Kind of like sculpting, but for 2D shapes.
3 - More Support For Audio Creations
As Dreams is primarily designed as an art platfor, it is understandable that the visual component is supported and pushed a lot. Ergo: Playable scenes, or stills. However, one field also is the auditory one. There have been additions for that, like a category, or community events, but they mostly feel private, and the categories for it feel more hidden than anything.
An idea I had was something like "SoundSurfing" as a separate part of the Dreams menu system, which would give a lot more attention to that part of the community, while not taking away attention for anything else, and also not overstuffing the menus.
4 - An Intuitive Way To Get To this Forum
As the main way to get feedback, or communicate with developers directly, the forums are an importat part of Dreams. However, there seems to be no direct way to get to them from the indreams.me start page, with the quickest way I found being 4 steps which all seem more hidden.
Having to leave the website to search for the forums with external sources seems more like a hassle and something most of the community won't do. Not because of spite, but because most people searching for a way to post feedback will not immediately have the idea to search for the indreams forums on Gogle, or their preferred search engine.
If you have anything as feedback, or own ideas, please respond with a comment. Thanks to those who read this.
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Correction for the point with the forums: I do understand now that you can get to it through clicking on "what's going on" and then on "Forums", but as there are all sorts of ways to get back to indreams.me directly, I don't see why it should not be the other way around as well.
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Music already gets promoted in Dreamsurfing via music videos or audio-visual showcases, and Impsider features music tracks from time to time.
Animators, sculptors, 2D artists, and game devs all have to share the same space to promote their works. Music artists being handed an entirely separate 'surfing' menu feels weird and just splits the community.
I agree with the rest though, especially the about the forums. Some people already treat the in-game comments as a forum of sorts, so the desire to post from Dreams itself is there. Also, unless you have a link to a thread or subforum, you'll be asked to login with a Sony account first before you can view these forums which feels kind of dumb to require upfront. Newcomers who are probably just curious and want to lurk first before posting would probably be put off and just move to Twitter at that point.
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