Video games that often feature 3D computer graphics and are played in a multi dimensional space.
The team at Rare had already established themselves as marque video game developers by the mid 90’s. Previous titles like Battletoads, Knight Lore and Sabre Wulf had earned the company’s founders Tim and Chris Stamper critical acclaim. Not happy to rest on their laurels when Nintendo bought up a majority share in the company in 1994. The brothers saw it as a chance to take on one of Nintendo’s characters and innovate on the medium. Continue reading
Myst achieved many milestones and records when it was released in September of 1993. Not only was it a revolution in video game graphics, featuring ground breaking 3D visuals in an era that still relied heavily on 2D sprites. It also stood as a rare title to have a MacOS release prior to its porting onto other platforms. Continue reading
Very often cited as one of the earliest First Person 3D games, Wolfenstein 3D the title that defined an entirely new genre. Although it certainly helped popularize the First Person Shooter genre in the early 90’s, it was not the first attempt by video game developers to make 3D perspective game. Continue reading
In response to the some of the points raised in the article that I posted a link to earlier in the week, I would like to use Perspective an indie game produced by students at Digipen University to counter some of the author’s arguments. The article is written by Liel Leibovitz who is an assistant professor of digital media at NYU and the content of the piece looks to debate the question that has being asked countless times throughout the video game industries brief history. That is, can video games ever be considered art? Continue reading