Project 2 Research

My goal for project 2 is to recreate old 8 and 16bit games of the late 80's and early 90's using 3d technology and looking at 3D vs 2D in an artistic sense. In order to achieve this its important to look back and see how i can re create the experience for people who grew up with these games and also for people who never played these games before.

So to begin, I looked at WHAT made old 2D games unique and an exciting experience for ME. I looked at a few factors, they are:

Pixels

Back in the early days of gaming, characters and environments were made up of visible coloured pixel. Even though pixels still exist in gaming. they are alot less noticeable and significant then they were before.


Colours

Simplistic and colourfull graphics stood out from games, this was mostly because of the limitations of hardware. Most games only had around 256 Colours with only 16 - 64 that could be displayed at a time.


Simplicity

These games used to be simple, with only one goal "fun" and nothing else. The levels were also simple and straight froward.

GamePlay

The Gameplay must be simple and easy for anyone to just pick up and play. The best part about old games is the really uncomplicated gameplay and straight forward game goal (Getting from point A to point B). It is important that this will trenslate into my game!