While most of them have not surfaced since the project’s cancellation, some songs are available on his website. According to him, he composed over 100 tracks for Dream. MusicĪlso worth noting is the musical score, composed by Grant Kirkhope. Fans are still holding hope that either prototype will surface someday to have a better idea as to what could have been. The only real thing that has surfaced, other than concept art, is a lone in-game screenshot, which has Edison standing in a pre-rendered background. To this day, however, neither has been seen, much less played, by anyone outside of Rare. Whereabouts of the PrototypesĪlthough it is unknown how complete either prototype was before both projects collapsed, their existence has been confirmed by those who worked on the game. In the end, the whole project was scrapped, and the team started over with some characters from Dream for a new game: Banjo-Kazooie. They eventually settled on a bear, who was initially a secondary character in the game, and he became the character Banjo. It was also noted that the main protagonist Edison was “too generic”, so the team looked for a new character, mainly woodland animals for inspiration. Top-10 Popular ROMS GBA Pokemon - Fire Red Version (V1.1) GBA Pokemon - Emerald Version SNES Super Mario World GBA Pokemon - Ruby Version (V1.1) GBA Pokemon - Leaf Green Version (V1. From that, the team decided to switch gears to a platformer with RPG elements. The development team had also taken notice of the second Rare team who was developing Twelve Tales: Conker 64 (a cutsey platformer inspired by Super Mario 64 that would later become the adult-orientated Conker’s Bad Fur Day). The processing power of the N64, however, was not enough to render these environments at a steady framerate.Įarly design of the bear character, who would evolve into Banjo. This version would have had a unique 3D terrain system, created by stretching out the polygons. N64 version (1996-97)ĭevelopment on the N64 version started on the N64 Disk Drive, in which the game would have switched to a 3D RPG game in the same vein as The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (which was also still in development at the time).
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He states that he was “blown away it looked beautiful and was obviously going to be a big step up from Donkey Kong Country.” The demo had a full introduction sequence and a full level.Įventually, it was decided that the SNES was not powerful enough for the development team’s vision, so the project was switched over to the SNES’s successor, the N64. According to composer Grant Kirkhope, composer of the game (and the eventual Banjo-Kazooie), a demo had already been created when he joined on October 1995. The game would have used the same ACM (Advanced Computer Modeling) technique that was used for Donkey Kong Country in 1994.
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SNES version (circa 1994-95)ĭevelopment first started on Project Dream in 1994-1995 (exact date unknown). Other than that, not much else has ever surfaced, other than the cast of characters (see below).
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The game would have starred Edison, a boy with a wooden sword that would have gotten himself into trouble with a group of pirates led by Captain Blackeye, the game’s main antagonist. Very little of the plot has ever been revealed.