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.
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