3 ms·
I wanted to throw out that one of the founders of Traveler's Tales, actually has a Youtube Channel (GameHut) where he goes over a lot of early videogame program
by LarsDu88 2y ago
I wanted to throw out that one of the founders of Traveler's Tales, actually has a Youtube Channel (GameHut) where he goes over a lot of early videogame programming techniques for (mostly) the Sega Genesis and Sega Saturn.
It's quite eye-opening what this guy and his company was able to pull off in the early 90s with an 8 MHz processor, and a limitation of 2 MB cartridge storage capacity, and only be allowed to code in assembly (!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhMMK3QLxSM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhMMK3QLxSM
- Nition 2y agoJust seconding this channel. It's full of super interesting videos about genius old coding tricks like the one you linked.
- Dwedit 2y agoIt's too bad that his most recent game (Funko Fusion) was a failure.
- LarsDu88 2y agoTT did all this crazy stuff in the 90s with limited hardware, but their biggest success was making licensed LEGO games. Making games is hard, but getting IP that people _love_ to begin with is harder. Might I plug my VR game Rogue Stargun (https://roguestargun.com https://roguestargun.com) which totally doesn't have a certain space opera IP, and concordantly does not sell very well?