The idea of “30 minute dreams” is similar to build battles in games like Minecraft. The general idea is you’re given 30 minutes with a phrase or theme in mind. For the general build battle you would be able to use the Mm audio asset library for some leeway and you could even use ideas from the livestream audience. The idea came about to Lombax from watching the Mm streams, notable with Kareem creating things within the streams time limits. It showed the process of going from one asset to a whole level. As far as actual timed streams, the speedy character creation stream is also an example of creative challenges.

“30 minute dreams” may limited to the more experienced but as of now it is open for anyone who wants to take part in it. Lombax mentions, “It’s a really great way to actually get good at using some of the tools and be efficient with them, so that you’re not floundering around whenever you’re making some of your own creations trying to get certain areas right when there are small tricks that you can learn by doing these that would expedite that process.” This is true even for those watching. He also has a background in a bit of color commentating in League of Legends for about 3 years. Obviously dreams creation is more slower paced than a game such as LoL so there is more time to speculate actions.

On the first livestream of “30 Minute Dreams” we could see what goes on in the thought process while guessing what each player was doing or trying to do. For example RbdJellyfish seemed to be trying to figure out what to do for half the stream when placing geometric shapes with the geometric theme round. It really looked like a bunch of random shapes until he panned the camera to reveal it was a logo (kind of echnochrome styled).

For now there is no set schedule of doing “30 Minute Dreams” so it’ll be an on-the-whim type of thing for now. We talked about potential limits on the number of streamers on a livestream. Lombax stated the upper limit may be 10 people. There’s always something new going on in each stream and it’s about balance in between watching streamers for the commentators.

“30 minute dreams” won’t necessarily just have that set style or those same set of rules for a theme and the whole 30 minutes to build idea. We compared our ideas for what more these livestreams could add to the table. There may be modes such as the following:

Being limited to community assets

• The day before the 30 minute dream stream, everyone is told what the themes will be and can bring one to three assets. It could be similar to only using the modular pieces used in the 3 cities stream.