Subject: Re: [stella] Programming "Mindsets"?!? From: Piero Cavina <p.cavina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 18:36:33 +0100 |
At 07.31 03/01/98 -0500, you wrote: >What _do_ you guys think of before you make a >game? What other games "inspire" you, if any? Oystron (or was it TPS?), >as I understand it, went through a couple of iterations before the >gameplay became what it was Hmmm... what can I say.. - part of the choices made is a matter of chance. This may seem strange, but is true. - other ideas come from the observation of other games; there are elements of Taz and, above all, Turmoil in Oystron, but I didn't like how the player moved in big steps in these games, and I wanted to try if I could do something better. - some gameplay concepts are taken from the best classic videogames of the past, which I've played to death as a kid. I think that this is a good thing.. maybe too many contemporary videogames are boring, because their authors didn't play enough Robotron or Defender when they were young! - last, but very important... a part of the tradeoff was also the time I had for this project. There was an high risk of starting something I couldn't finish. >PS Quick Mac update: I have put that on the back burner as I go back to >work and order (the horror! What a traitor!) Virtual PC! I feel like >I'm cheating, but this whole compilation thing has driven me crazy! Virtual PC? That's nothing.. I've always been a Mac user, but last summer I've bought a whole PC mainly to run all those emulators that aren't available for the Mac... :-) P. -- Stella list is Administered by krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxx <Glenn Saunders> Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/stella.html +-shameless plugs-------------------------------------------------------+ | Stella documentary at http://www.primenet.com/~krishna | | Nick's VCS links via http://www.primenet.com/~nickb/atariprg.htm | | Write the best game, win framed autographs of famous Atari alumni!! | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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