Couldn 't agree more if I had written it myself. One of the main differences between then and now though is the scale of investment in creating a game a AAA game, anyway . More money means fewer risks will be taken. They have shareholders to please and such. r ...
@Dan Eisenhower r n r n Well right, and they 're killed by male avatars. If you can establish a pattern of matriarchal murder of men in video games be my guest. r n r nI guess computer gaming fantasy land would be better balanced if there were an equal ...
@Christian Keichel r n r nWell damn, man, I stand corrected. I hadn 't checked the numbers obviously, but strangely all the 3DS articles I 've read are about it struggling, poor sales, etc., so I developed the impression that it had failed. Either I missed the positive articles or ...
I think this is an example of the various disciplines/facets of game development advancing at uneven rates. As Bryce points out, an S NES-era 2D idle animation is fine but a photorealistic modern one just looks weird. r n r nOne reason I can think of for this is that ...
Don 't tell your girl that she 'll get jealous. Project reigns supreme j/k I love Gamasutra... Only place I feel I could get a reasonable and fair response. Blissfully friendly most of the time.
Having an aversion to what you 're portraying could make the resulting images more powerful. It could be an asset and you could still feel good about indirectly conveying your pacifism. Not saying it is, just that it could be for any of us with strong beliefs.
Padded playground to prevent players from pushing the perimeter. Players piss on that pretentious prattle. r n r nBut seriously, that 's a good idea. The game doesn 't stop you from venturing out, it just punishes you for it using familiar mechanics. I like it. Elegant and smooth, like ...
I used Fastgraph, which was a graphics library programmed in Pascal for QuickBASIC 4.5. It let you do a lot of bit-blitting type stuff, image loading and playing wav files. Really took things up a notch for QB games. I remember I could do full screen scrolling at 320x200@8bpp at ...
