Wireframe - #34 - 2020

Pesaresi recommends doing something similar, if you have the means: “It’s a nice way to connect with players, keep them engaged, ...

WRITTEN BY IAN DRANSFIELD ownloading games has been around longer than many of us think. It’s the same with streaming: Google’s ...

GOOGLE STADIA The absolute best compliment that can be thrown at the feet of Stadia, Google’s attempt to make cloud gaming mains ...

PLAYSTATION NOW ANTSTREAM The grandparent of this group is, somewhat surprisingly, Sony’s own streaming service – PlayStation No ...

AND THEN... There are others out there – like Shadow – but the biggest on the upcoming radar has to be Microsoft’s xCloud, set t ...

26 / wfmag.cc Interface Column espite literally having a piece in my recent stand-up show* called ‘The top five jokes that got c ...

wfmag.cc \ 27 Contents Toolbox CityCraft Using urban functions in your games Squeezing the NES Fitting Super Robin Hood into ju ...

Advice Toolbox Mining towns, empty, futuristic metropolises – cities built around a single function can make for great video gam ...

wfmag.cc \ 29 Echoes of Civic Life Dead cities, ruins, and extinct societies are more interesting when their previous function i ...

30 / wfmag.cc Squeezing the NES Toolbox How the Oliver Twins managed to fit Super Robin Hood onto a 64kB NES cartridge e came la ...

wfmag.cc \ 31 Squeezing the NES Toolbox Our development environment consisted of two 8086 PCs, both fitted with floppy drives an ...

32 / wfmag.cc Squeezing the NES Toolbox good use of a set of solid routines and game mechanics developed for Dizzy, and we’d be ...

wfmag.cc \ 33 Squeezing the NES Toolbox Floors 3, 4, and 5 – Halls and Bedrooms – share the same character set. Floors 6, 7, and ...

34 / wfmag.cc Squeezing the NES Toolbox right, say. This was another of the NES’s great hardware features. By doing this, we wer ...

wfmag.cc \ 35 Squeezing the NES Toolbox the low byte LDA $24 ; LoaD Accumulator - getting the high byte ADC #$00 ; ADd with Carr ...

Advice Toolbox Making games isn’t just about having more time or people: it’s also about finding ways to best apply your resourc ...

Advice Toolbox graphic, for each gun. But furthermore, you will also need unique ricochet sounds for each type of surface it hit ...

38 / wfmag.cc Advice Toolbox From The Walking Dead to Guardians of the Galaxy, John revisits the evolution of Telltale’s ‘freewa ...

Advice Toolbox open-ended adventure scene, but it’s grounded by a one-off mechanic to make the scene feel more special. Our mech ...

Source Code Toolbox 40 / wfmag.cc Source Code Toolbox itting arcades in 1984, Atari’s Marble Madness presented a rather differen ...