DEFENDER

Posted October 9, 2007 at 8:20 pm

Today’s games lecture was based around 80’s games and Dan talked to us about game dynamics as well as why parts of the game interacted the way they did. He showed us Defender as an example, which is basically a combination of Pong (up and down motion of the space craft), Space Invaders (Aliens shooting at you) and Asteroids (simulated space physics and the ship shooting). In the practical session later on we got to have a go at the game and it was surprisingly hard. I think this was designed to get us thinking about how games like this played and how we as the player interacted with it as well as the in game elements. All this is very useful for getting us to think about our own game.

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