Agreed Thomas, but you forgot Blinky! lol!shame on you! ;) Yes, the ghosts certainly looked like ghosts accept that they were colored rather than white, as you mention…
To go just a bit further as people might not completely know the shapes, the ghosts were round at the top and had two little round white eyes with black pupils which faced in the direction the ghost was moving. Their eyes looked quite cartoonish which fits perfectly with the game itself. Each ghost gets a little wider as you go from their top to the bottom. The bottom edge of each ghost was a zigzag which further gives the impression of a sheet draped over a creature with a round head. So basically the ghosts are round at the top, gently flair out closer to the bottom and are zigzagged across the bottom. so they look exactly like little colored cartoon ghosts with cute round eyes. Yes, the graphics were pretty poor in terms of today's standards, (or even for twenty years ago :) ) but you could certainly tell what everything was or was supposed to be… Hope this helps… Smiles, Cara :) --- iOS design and development - LookTel.com --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara On Jul 8, 2014, at 10:06 AM, Thomas Ward <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Dark, Actually, I disagree with your point of view here somewhat. When I had sight Inky, Pinky, and Clide were easily identifiable as ghosts. As someone else pointed out here basically they looked like sheets with the eyes and mouth cut out. The classic kids ghost Halloween costume. The only difference is that they were red, green, and pink instead of white. For someone with a set of fully functional eyes they were not vague at all. Cheers! On 7/8/14, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nicol. > > Well I still occasionally play packman with my limited vision, although it's > > not the easiest game to play with low visual field. > > the first answer is yes, Phil included the ghosts in packman talks precisely > > because they're in mainstream packman. The second answer is a little harder > > because packman being a very old game never had particularly specific > ghraphics that give a clear sense of things, so the ghosts in mainstream > packman were just sort of undistinguished shapes in redd, green or blue with > > eyes and a mouth, just the same way packman himself is basically just like a > > circle with a bit cutout (imagine a pizza with a slice missing). > > This lack of detail in older graphics is a little hard to explain if you've > > not had sight, and even to me, who has limited vision and needs to pretty > much guess at what things are it is a somewhat difficult concept but I will > > try to explain. > > In Sansens carnival of the animals he makes the sound of a lion raw by > playing a long chromatic run up and down several octives of the piano. Well, > > that as compared to the real sound of a lion raw is rather like the old > atari style graphics compared to real objects. It's a sort of vague outline. > > if you weren't told that the ghosts were ghosts you probably wouldn't know > what they were. > > Hope that sort of makes sense. > > All the best, > > Dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected]. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
