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The 80s in High Definition: Rediscovering Classic Gaming

Explore why games from the 80s were so appealing and why we have forgotten certain design elements. Dive into gravity/inertia-based games, space shooters, and classic gaming mechanics with a twist. Choose between vector or bitmap graphics and experience a story involving a galactic pizza delivery boy, aliens, and a disgruntled employee waging war on the universe. Available worldwide on Xmas '09. Find out what's next for J.A.W.

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The 80s in High Definition: Rediscovering Classic Gaming

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  1. website: www.jawltd.com Twitter: @jawwire

  2. “The 80s in High Definition”

  3. Why?

  4. Why? • What made games in the 80s appealing?

  5. Why? • What made games in the 80s appealing? • What have we forgotten about, in design terms?

  6. Why? • What made games in the 80s appealing? • What have we forgotten about, in design terms? • Is bigger better?

  7. Inspiration • Gravity/Inertia Based Games … • Thrust • Oids • Gravitar • Space Shooters … • Gradius

  8. Inspiration

  9. Goals • The need to make a game that uses classic gaming mechanics.

  10. Goals • The need to make a game that uses classic gaming mechanics. • A perverse desire to create a game that uses perfect geometrical collision.

  11. 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.

  12. Visual Style Vector or bitmap graphics?

  13. Story? • Galactic Pizza Delivery boy.

  14. Story? • Galactic Pizza Delivery boy. • Aliens are trying to steal all the Bacon in the Universe.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. Release date: Wordlwide Xmas’09

  18. What next for J.A.W.

  19. What next for J.A.W.

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