The team behind Donkey Kong County 2 began production on Dream: Land of Giants for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System around the end of 1995. Their aim was to apply the pre-rendered bitmap graphic style they developed for the Donkey Kong Country series to a different genre of game, while pushing the graphical fidelity even higher than what they had achieved on their previous two projects. Drawing inspiration from Japanese RPGs, The Legend of Zelda, and LucasArts point-and-click adventure games, the team dreamt up the idea of a sprawling isometric adventure game with a "fairytale-esque magical element to it." 1.1 Phase 1 - Dream: Land of Giants (SNES)ĭevelopment Phase 1 - Dream: Land of Giants (SNES)Įdson running along a wooded path in the first version of Dream (SNES).The seafaring themes explored while developing the N64 version of Dream would later be used as inspiration for Rare's Sea of Thieves, which was revealed at E3 2015. Steve Mayles has kindly shared numerous promotional images of the game's character designs via social media, and Grant Kirkhope has uploaded many of the themes he composed for the game to his portfolio website along with commentary on each track. In July 2015, storyboard images, concept art sheets, and a blank sprite floppy of Dream surfaced on eBay UK. The game's team spent around 16 months developing the game, after which it was redeveloped into what is now Banjo-Kazooie.Īround the time of Rare Replay's release in 2015, Rare recorded a making-of featurette entitled "A Rare Look at Dream" which divulged exciting insights into the game's development history, inspirations, and evolution into Banjo-Kazooie. A screenshot of a clip of Dream shown in a video made by Rareĭream: Land of Giants (Codenamed " Project Dream") was an unreleased RPG video game that was originally in development for the Super NES but was moved to the Nintendo 64.
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