Infogrames has a bit of a smelly record when it comes to taking care of developers.. it somehow manages to first acquire successful IP or studios owning successful IP and then killing one after the other. I hope Eden manages to convince them. A bit of game studio history: http://infogrames-entertainment-sa.co.tv/
You can recode diagonal moves as a move in 2 steps, e.g. first horizontal and then vertical. You'll briefly need to be able to store more than 1 object per cell, until the second pass ticks.
I'll pass on extending that short list, obviously it's not complete : To continue, there exist a number of research projects both funded by EU R D and big entertainment companies in the US that specifically deal with transferring the knowledge domain the director's actual vision on film-making his personal ...
The 'pointing in the right direction' feature was once shown in an old game called Outcast, where you could query certain NPC's where X or Y was. It was probably not the first time it was done in a game, but it worked nicely.
I found the discussion very inspiring, it reads like a beautiful trip : A lot of plots in games these days are so 'linear' in the sense that they already existed in previous renditions and in different media of the same form-factors, and that we really don't need the n'th ...
