- cross-posted to:
- games@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- games@lemmy.world
Is it strange that the first Prince of Persia was acclaimed for its realism and use of rudimentary motion capture?
30 years later, we have this.
Wait, the original Prince of Persia used mocap?
The process he eventually settled on started with Mechner using a video camera to record his brother running and jumping in a parking lot across from their high school. Once he found a take that worked, the video was played back on a TV in a dark room and the screen was photographed with a 35-millimeter film camera, frame by frame, creating roughly 35 photos of his brother in action. Mechner then traced over each photograph with a black marker and white correction fluid to create a high-contrast black and white silhouette of each pose, and then used a photocopier to assemble all of them onto a single sheet of paper that was scanned into an Apple II using a special capture card. With the poses all digitized, Mechner then painstakingly cut them all out, pixel by pixel, and used a special graphics tool to assemble them into frame animations.
That’s honestly really cool!
Not really. It used a series of photos of the lead programmer’s brother(???) Walking, running, jumping etc, which were used to create the character sprites. Very rudimentary. But it worked.
It’s better than the made for kids mobile app style garbage they have of the new game on PlayStation.
I actually saw the movie before I played the original game. I’ve been fascinated with the concept for some time.
The game reminds me a lot of dead cells in the way the combat and gameplay flow. But I can’t stand the art style.
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This piqued my interest. I’ll wait for the reviews. I didn’t think I’d enjoy Dead Cells, but it quickly became a favorite.
Please somebody, anyone, tell me you also keep reading it as “Rogue Princess of Persia” ! I can’t figure out why, but it keeps happening every single time I see the name in articles!