I was blown away by the artistry and animation in this video. I can always count on Brian to find stuff like this, including the making-of post.
The art reminded me of old rotoscoped classics like Out of This World. Have there been any low-res, low-color, high-frame-count, non-tiled animation style games in the last 15 years? It would take a good amount of work, but there’s a classic waiting to be revealed to the world.
This evening was an IGDA-organized “Meet The Press” event at Google campus in Mountain View, which I attended with a few friends. It was an interesting experience because it showed a completely different side of game development, something I only get a glimpse of every so often. This is the side of game development about market share, numbers, percentages, billions, social, mobile, mid-core. For the most part I’m exposed to the indie, creative, artist, nerdy, emo, poverty-stricken side of game development. It’s good to get things from both sides, but I definitely feel more at home with the indies.
The production value here is just spectacular. Thanks to Freakin’ Indies for pointing me here.
I really hope this is a smash hit for D-Pad Studio, because the amount of work that went into these sprites and backgrounds is mind-blowing. This really is picking up where the SNES and Neo-Geo left off.
My answer: Stuart Smith’s Adventure Construction Set, Commodore 64. This is a scan of the original jacket, which I still own along with instruction manual.
