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Pogo

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GDC: How Sucker Punch built inFamous' big city with a small team

Mar 11th 2010 7:40PM (Joystiq)
The term 'weenie' comes from (if I recall) Walt Disney and Disneyland...

Say you're at a theme park and you're hungry. The park is gigantic, where's the damn food court? There's this heavy tree line, or lots of other rides that are taking up your vision.

So Walt puts a giant plaster hot-dog sculpture on top of the food court building, which rises just above the trees. And from any one section of the park, you can look around the horizon and see one huge landmark rising up from each section of the park. You spot the big hot dog and you're on your way to lunch.

i.e. Splash Mountain, the Matterhorn, the Tomorrowland tower. You can navigate just by glancing around for landmarks. Evil lairs is just the next step :)

It's a pretty clever guideline that I hear just about every level artist talking about these days. Put a clear landmark on the horizon so the player knows where their goal is.

Epic's People Can Fly trademarks 'Bulletstorm'

Dec 29th 2009 3:07PM (Joystiq)
dibs on Chainsawvortex and Rawketsawce

YOR LOSS FOOLS $$$$

Dead Space: Extraction gameplay footage & prod interview

Apr 9th 2009 4:05PM (Joystiq)
time crisis 4... with its weird sort-of-wii guncons

Resident Evil 5 CE unveiled: $90 for figurine, bag and Kijuju

Jan 16th 2009 2:30PM (Joystiq)
nice but i already have an africa medallion i like to wear on the street

Yahtzee gets in front of the camera on Game Damage

Dec 18th 2008 11:52AM (Joystiq)
It's about 25 minutes too long...

Also the editorials on story and such sound like typical uninformed gamer whining, from three people who really don't like games at all. The sketches seem like a lot of effort for few or no laughs.

Here's a plan: Yahtzee can go on making spot-on critiques instead of trying to read the news with a stick up his bum, and the other two guys can share a "yay games" blog that gets like 10 hits a month.

If you can go hating on video games for 30 straight minutes, why even bother?

Retail: Ubisoft releasing Grey's Anatomy game in March

Dec 17th 2008 5:12PM (Joystiq)
miguel couldn't look any happier!

EA makes NASCAR-T cute for Wii in February

Dec 4th 2008 1:34PM (Joystiq)
I for one hope there are right turns.

Joystiq review -- Mirror's Edge

Nov 11th 2008 2:54PM (Joystiq)
meh C+

Brash layoffs result from 'tough economic landscape' [update]

Nov 7th 2008 11:08AM (Joystiq)
MORE FLAGS... MORE FUN!

...oh.

Rock Band Weekly: Foo Fighters album; Harmonix announces Track Pack Vol. 2

Nov 6th 2008 3:56PM (Joystiq)
foo fighters pack? all i can think is...

THE BOST THE BOST THE BOST THE BOST THE BOST THE BOST THE BOST THE BOST THE BOST THE BOST THE BOST THE BOST THE BOST THE BOST THE BOST THE BOST

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