Follow your Dreams: how the future of playing video games is making them

Media Molecule's ambitious new PlayStation 4 release is a game development tool that allows you to be creative for the fun of it

We're living in an age of mass, democratised creativity - or at least that's what the technology industry likes to tell us. You can shoot a movie or record an album on a smartphone, you can become a household name with a webcam and a YouTube channel, and you can download any of a dozen applications and build a video game from nothing.

But the latter is an intimidating notion. Games are ultimately complex mechanisms, constructed from code, involving physics, narrative, animation and audio. There has been a deliberate effort within the industry to make creative tools more accessible, arguably spearheaded by Unity, a technology that both powers games and lets users create them - and yet, designing and constructing a game can feel overwhelming. Even the first step, having confidence in your ideas, is a difficult one. It's also where Media Molecule's ambitious new PlayStation 4 release Dreams comes in.