Oh yeah, you can totally shorten up your path to the end with bombs. I didn 't do that mainly because I felt that in those cases using the bomb was optional, and I was attempting to avoid the optional paths. r n r nIt would be really interesting, though, ...
It seems to me like there are at least two types of players who want different things. One type likes to FEEL smart, or powerful. The other wants to solve problems that require them to BE powerful or smart, or whatever. I've seen these groups over and over again in ...
Usually a boss' environment is very specialized so that the boss can use all his attacks. In a lot of the fights I've done, he even uses the environment as a weapon. So I tend to think of the boss design and his environment design as the same problem and ...
Great article. The concept of anticipation - action - reaction is one that I always stress to people designing enemy attacks. It's critical. At Insomniac, when referring to enemy attacks we called them the pre-attack, attack, and post-attack phases, but they're exactly the same thing as what you're describing. The ...
@Bart Absolutely. I haven't read Systemantics , but those are great words to describe that problem. Sometimes you can't solve a problem from the branches. You have to go back and check the roots.
