@FakeDaveGreen I did 😮 It's a beautiful rarity among games in that regard. I think I used to compare it to taming a wild horse 🙂
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Gary Penn
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Gary Penn
@GaryPenn
There was an old man called Gary.
Cellardyke Katılım Aralık 2008
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.@GaryPenn once memorably explained to me that Defender's game design - fairly uniquely - made the player TOO powerful: you can fly too fast into stuff (as in Spy Hunter), and accidentally shoot too many humanoids. If you know that, the first wave is easy?
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Kevin Edwards ( Retro Videogame development )@KevEdwardsRetro
Don't you hate it when someone who hasn't played Defender for about 40 years rocks up and completes the first wave with no effort. It must be muscle memory! I, on the other hand, got destroyed within seconds of moving. Thanks, Paul!
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haunted by vague memories of these Williams/ Sega/ Midway/ Namco electromechanical coinops which presumably co-existed with (easier-to-maintain?) Pong/ Space Invaders-style "video games" into the early 1980s...
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@rpwbrowne @JackGYarwood @CombyLaurent1 News to me :) We started with PC, PSX, N64 and Saturn and ended up releasing only PC and PSX in 1997.
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Fun fact (to be confirmed)
The original publisher of GTA 1 was NOT able to release on PlayStation. SEGA got offered the rights for just publishing on PC. Clearly back then SEGA was not able to publish on PlayStation.
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@UridiumAuthor Totes superaces to see you and Steve again after all this time! ❤️
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@itsJenSim I used to write loads of manuals, box copy, ads, etc back in the last century! Early '90s. Didn't usually get much scope to be creative :) The poster manual I did for Magic Pockets was fun (more than the game TBH).
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Zzap! Live 2023! Draft 4 update! SILO & THE MELVINS! All this & more in the latest #heartofneon newsletter in subscribers' inboxes now. Not on the list? Nip over to #newsletter" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">heartofneon.com/#newsletter & sign up! #jeffminter #llamasoft #documentary #retrogaming #indiefilm
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@vintagegamer77 @amigamagazine @DaveTheHutt66 I LOVED the WIP format. No one else doing anything like that at the time. We wanted to share an appreciation for how games were actually made with an emphasis on the craft rather than technology.
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A great afternoon working on our upcoming @DaveTheHutt66 interview for issue 20 of AA. Great to give ACE and The One Amiga some discussion.
Paul
#amiga #RETROGAMING #commodore
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@GaryPenn Yes! Still share that story with people from time to time.
The true answer is that dev should be clustered around features based on individual skillsets.
The question is how you work backward from that to figure out how to teach it. Could a student "incept" something like this?
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Here's a question for #gamedev and #indiedev - one I have an answer for but want to hear other people's opinions...
Who, in a dev team, is primarily responsible for a feature like this?
And what skills/background do they need to do so?
Doku // Out of Action@DokuGamesLTD
#indiedev #gamedev #FPS #UnrealEngine A look at the dive/prone mechanic. You're able to dive and prone in any direction maintaining 360 degree aiming. Holding the dive will remain in prone, while tapping will automatically roll on land. Placehoder art/animation.
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@GaryPenn I only met him once in passing, but he was so young it really hit me that we're starting to lose those who mean a lot to us all.
Don't leave it too late to say something...
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Been thinking a lot about Archer Maclean’s passing today, and how we always wait to say thanks, you were an inspiration, or you defined my childhood etc…
So, gonna start a list of folk who did define my childhood, or who had a major influence on me and my career.
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@Clert @jesawyer @DCockle @casskhaw @MaliceDaFirenze @IanHigton @caboken @LeeKirton77 @Stormscribe @PixelatedVicka @JumpOvertheAge @RaveofRavendale @ChrisTapsell @gregbuchanan @mustangsart @inkleStudios @AoifeLockhart @danthat @TimeGentleman @Wrenegadey Chuffed to have the chance to blather! ❤️
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What a podcasting year it's been! 20 interviews this year! I've been fascinated by my guests, entertained, taught a bunch of things. A massive THANK YOU to all who've taken part. In reverse order, they are: @jesawyer @DCockle @casskhaw @MaliceDaFirenze @IanHigton @caboken
Eurogamer@eurogamer
From The Witcher's @DCockle to our very own @IanHigton, we've had some wonderful people on the podcast this year. Here's a bumper recap special for all your festive needs: eurogamer.net/weve-had-some-…
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Speaking of ZZAP64. @GaryPenn was the name I always associate with that, and thought was the cooling guy around. I always wanted to write a game so he’d review it.
A good friend today that 15 year old me would never have imagined having
Thank you Gary, tis an honour knowing you
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@katewillaert @didyouknowgamin News to me. But I wasn't on Body Harvest from the outset, so not impossible :) @_Jabberwonky is best-placed to answer fo sho :)
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@denkicolin @katewillaert @didyouknowgamin @_Jabberwonky No idea how to access the relevant thread from this tweet cos Twitter interface still makes no sense to me :D
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@katewillaert @didyouknowgamin Hey @GaryPenn and @_Jabberwonky - any memories of this? I'd never heard this theory before, and I'm sure the rumour would've been all over the office if it had been made explicitly by Nintendo.
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