website: twitter: @jawwire. the 80s in high definition
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website: www.jawltd.comTwitter: @jawwire
“The 80s in High Definition”
Why?
Why?
• What made games in the 80s appealing?
Why?
• What made games in the 80s appealing?
• What have we forgotten about, in design terms?
Why?
• What made games in the 80s appealing?
• What have we forgotten about, in design terms?
• Is bigger better?
InspirationGravity/Inertia Based Games …• Thrust• Oids• Gravitar
Space Shooters …• Gradius
Inspiration
Goals• The need to make a game that
uses classic gaming mechanics.
Goals• The need to make a game that
uses classic gaming mechanics.
• A perverse desire to create a game that uses perfect geometrical collision.
Goals• The need to make a game that
uses classic gaming mechanics.
• A perverse desire to create a game that uses perfect geometrical collision.
• Offer players the ability to create their own levels.
Visual Style
Vector or bitmap graphics?
Story?
• Galactic Pizza Delivery boy.
Story?
• Galactic Pizza Delivery boy.• Aliens are trying to steal all the
Bacon in the Universe.
Story?
• Galactic Pizza Delivery boy.• Aliens are trying to steal all the
Bacon in the Universe.• Disgruntled employee decides to
wage war on the Universe.
Story?
• Galactic Pizza Delivery boy.• Aliens are trying to steal all the
Bacon in the Universe.• Disgruntled employee decides to
wage war on the Universe.• Gaming Journalists go nuts.
Release date: Wordlwide
Xmas’09
What next for J.A.W.
What next for J.A.W.