Hi Dark, Yes, side-scrollers can have some advanced elements, and unique challenges of there own. Case in point platforms that vanish or move so you have to time your jumps to get them just in time. In the Smirf's side-scroller I can remember you would have a drop off to jump over. jumping over wasn't the worst part. As you did bats would dive at you and contacting them would kill you. So the jump and the bats together made that trap kind of tough to cross successfully every time. As for the bit about FPS games
inherently more advanced it is true to some degree. Shades of Doom is light years more complex and probably has better replay value than Monty. However, Monty is not designed to do those things. Instead the idea is to compete fore scores, and for good old fun and entertainment without allot of additional complexity. One thing that escapes allot of gamers attention FPS games like Resident Evil, great game, take way way more work to produce. A game like Resident evil would take a dev like me a good three or four years to produce on my current schedule. Dark wrote: > Hmmm, I'm slightly confused. in what way are 3D fps games inherently more > advanced than side scrollers? > > surely, how advanced, aka how complex a game is, depends upon many other > factors than it's design? > > an Fps game could be as Symple as Dyna man or Packman talks (though stil > most fun), and in the main > stream markit, side scrollers have done some amazingly complex things, ----- > like Veutiful Jo on the Gc which allows you to slowdown and speed up time I > believe. > > but as has been said, the Fps style has been explored a lot more in audio > than the side scrolling style thus far. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
