Despite being a beloved, award-winning, and popular cartoon, Courage the Cowardly Dog never got an official video game adaptation. And since the show has been out of production for over 23 years now, it’s unlikely to ever get one at this point. But don’t worry, one fan is working hard on making the Courage game you’ve always wanted, and it’s close to launching. You’ll just need a copy of Dreams to play it.
Here’s the latest trailer for El Gato Del Tejado’s upcoming Courage the Cowardly Dog game, which reveals that the full game will finally be available on November 28, following a previously released demo and nearly two years of development. I think the trailer perfectly captures the creepy and surreal vibes of the original Cartoon Network show, complete with Courage screaming and monsters trying to kill him and his owners.
The weird part about El Gato Del Tejado’s upcoming fan game is that it’s not being developed in Unreal or Unity, as you might expect. Instead, the creator (who is also remastering The Simpsons Hit & Run and working on other cool projects) has chosen to use Dreams to build this creepy Courage game.
Remember Dreams? It was the next creative game from LittleBigPlanet studio Media Molecule and offered players a full suite of tools to create and share their own games. Sadly, the game’s community dried up after it became clear that Dreams would never be supported on PC or get the long-term care it needed. But that hasn’t stopped El Gato from devoting the last few years to becoming a truly skilled Dreams developer. And the Courage game really shows this off. I think if you showed that trailer above to most people, they’d not guess it was made in Dreams.
Regardless of how it was made, I’ll be checking it out later this month when it launches on PS4/PS5 via Dreams. I just need to uh…download Dreams again.
