Website: Twitter: @jawwire. The 80s in High Definition.

website: www.jawltd.comTwitter: @jawwire

“The 80s in High Definition”

Why?

Why?

• What made games in the 80s appealing?

Why?

• What made games in the 80s appealing?

• What have we forgotten about, in design terms?

Why?

• What made games in the 80s appealing?

• What have we forgotten about, in design terms?

• Is bigger better?

InspirationGravity/Inertia Based Games …• Thrust• Oids• Gravitar

Space Shooters …• Gradius

Inspiration

Goals• The need to make a game that

uses classic gaming mechanics.

Goals• The need to make a game that

uses classic gaming mechanics.

• A perverse desire to create a game that uses perfect geometrical collision.

Goals• The need to make a game that

uses classic gaming mechanics.

• A perverse desire to create a game that uses perfect geometrical collision.

• Offer players the ability to create their own levels.

Visual Style

Vector or bitmap graphics?

Story?

• Galactic Pizza Delivery boy.

Story?

• Galactic Pizza Delivery boy.• Aliens are trying to steal all the

Bacon in the Universe.

Story?

• Galactic Pizza Delivery boy.• Aliens are trying to steal all the

Bacon in the Universe.• Disgruntled employee decides to

wage war on the Universe.

Story?

• Galactic Pizza Delivery boy.• Aliens are trying to steal all the

Bacon in the Universe.• Disgruntled employee decides to

wage war on the Universe.• Gaming Journalists go nuts.

Release date: Wordlwide

Xmas’09

What next for J.A.W.

What next for J.A.W.