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If you could design your life what would you pick? Would you have the physics of the world as they are now, or would you pick a world more akin to the style of Rez? Maybe everything could be cell shadded. You could have red skies, low gravity, and lemonade rivers. Then again, maybe you just like things as they are.
You may think these questions are best left to God Almighty and that we should just get on with things, but these are the questions that game designers must face everytime they come up with a new idea...
You see, game designers no longer have to come up with a plot, some characters and gameplay mechanics. Now their job has extended to producing a fully encompassed gaming Universe. Everything has to be though of. With the power of the consoles they develop for, nothing is impossible.
Let's take and example in the form of Jet Set Radio.
The initial concept isn't too great- you play a roller blader who has to spray grafitti around. This could be pulled off by taking the realistic stlye of Tony Hawk, adding some controls, and making a few missions. Instead it was done by creating an entirely new style of graphical world that represents the theme of the game itself. Genius.
Such ideas need not be limitted to graphics. At the simplest level, games have to be self consistent. You can follow the river of Hyrule from its source in the East right through to the great lake in the West. The gaming Universe has no holes, kinks or flaws- everything is consistent.
Why then is it that so many game designers are still making interactive films. There's nothing wrong with realistic graphics, linear gameplay and prescripted scenes, but when it comes to missing out on the point of gaming then something is going wrong. Can developers not be bothered to put some effort into turning their dreams into true gaming Universes. It's no longer acceptable to do level after level, with no thought of how one level links in with another. There has to be some sort of structure in games.
So, while you reply, let me pose a question:
If you could design the real world, what would you do?
Sonic
POWER TO THE HEDGEHOG
You may think these questions are best left to God Almighty and that we should just get on with things, but these are the questions that game designers must face everytime they come up with a new idea...
You see, game designers no longer have to come up with a plot, some characters and gameplay mechanics. Now their job has extended to producing a fully encompassed gaming Universe. Everything has to be though of. With the power of the consoles they develop for, nothing is impossible.
Let's take and example in the form of Jet Set Radio.
The initial concept isn't too great- you play a roller blader who has to spray grafitti around. This could be pulled off by taking the realistic stlye of Tony Hawk, adding some controls, and making a few missions. Instead it was done by creating an entirely new style of graphical world that represents the theme of the game itself. Genius.
Such ideas need not be limitted to graphics. At the simplest level, games have to be self consistent. You can follow the river of Hyrule from its source in the East right through to the great lake in the West. The gaming Universe has no holes, kinks or flaws- everything is consistent.
Why then is it that so many game designers are still making interactive films. There's nothing wrong with realistic graphics, linear gameplay and prescripted scenes, but when it comes to missing out on the point of gaming then something is going wrong. Can developers not be bothered to put some effort into turning their dreams into true gaming Universes. It's no longer acceptable to do level after level, with no thought of how one level links in with another. There has to be some sort of structure in games.
So, while you reply, let me pose a question:
If you could design the real world, what would you do?
Sonic
POWER TO THE HEDGEHOG
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Na†ßu© wrote:
> the game comes out first week in june...and we have played a demo on
> the OPSM2 disk and it's been reviewed so it is a definate!
Now that is excellent news. Shame I've sold my PS2 in frustration of waiting... how long ago did that game come out in America!
Sonic
> the game comes out first week in june...and we have played a demo on
> the OPSM2 disk and it's been reviewed so it is a definate!
Now that is excellent news. Shame I've sold my PS2 in frustration of waiting... how long ago did that game come out in America!
Sonic
the game comes out first week in june...and we have played a demo on the OPSM2 disk and it's been reviewed so it is a definate!
Nomad_Soul wrote:
> If anything, this is what is missing in gaming: visual/graphical
> originality and uniqueness.
> Another reason why I love REZ so much.
Well, if you like that, you're sure to like frequency- a very similar game created by Sony America, but with cell shaded visuals.
Unfortunately, Sony Europe don't like Sony America, and we may never see the game.
> If anything, this is what is missing in gaming: visual/graphical
> originality and uniqueness.
> Another reason why I love REZ so much.
Well, if you like that, you're sure to like frequency- a very similar game created by Sony America, but with cell shaded visuals.
Unfortunately, Sony Europe don't like Sony America, and we may never see the game.
If anything, this is what is missing in gaming: visual/graphical originality and uniqueness.
Another reason why I love REZ so much.
Another reason why I love REZ so much.
Personally, I'd have a Monet style world, where the brilliant blue of the sky and green of the horizon flow into one another, and everything is vibrantly coloured.
Ah yes, and end to boring edges.
Ah yes, and end to boring edges.
The real world was fine at the beginning, it's all the artificial bits that have mucked it up. Well, not ALL the artificial bits, some of them are quite good, but they come at the expense of our beautiful natural environment.
So perhaps my design would be a 'back-to-basics' one, but with structures that would give us comfort with no or little effect on the world around us.
Damn, this is sounding more like a reply to a life forum topic now!
So perhaps my design would be a 'back-to-basics' one, but with structures that would give us comfort with no or little effect on the world around us.
Damn, this is sounding more like a reply to a life forum topic now!
If I could design the real world or even the environment of a game, I would choose fantasy in the extreme.
No half measures, no "realistic" compromises - just a pure and ultimate fantastical vision buzzing with extravagant colour and fabulous creatures.
....But then again, when I stand back and think about it, perhaps the natural world of Planet Earth and artificial culture of humankind is already like this.
No half measures, no "realistic" compromises - just a pure and ultimate fantastical vision buzzing with extravagant colour and fabulous creatures.
....But then again, when I stand back and think about it, perhaps the natural world of Planet Earth and artificial culture of humankind is already like this.
SHEEPY wrote:
> " Life is a game my boy, with rules that you must follow "
>
> Catcher in the Rye... I think that's the quote
I run your notable campaign, and this is the thanks I get- a quote from a book that everyone reads at school but no one remembers!
Tsk! Some people eh!
> " Life is a game my boy, with rules that you must follow "
>
> Catcher in the Rye... I think that's the quote
I run your notable campaign, and this is the thanks I get- a quote from a book that everyone reads at school but no one remembers!
Tsk! Some people eh!
" Life is a game my boy, with rules that you must follow "
Catcher in the Rye... I think that's the quote
Catcher in the Rye... I think that's the quote
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