Excellent High-Level Game (Art) Development Challenges Discussion by DoubleFine

Brian "Panda" Choi

This is a really awesome discussion about a lot of the old game (art) challenges they've had to meet during the development of two separate, but well received, Disney platformers back during the SNES / Genesis era of video games.

Feels like a very casual, but effective, GDC talk.

http://youtu.be/kILeyo1iv0A

Gmanx

Very cool JadeEyePanda, thanks for the link. As a dev and a trad animator brought up in the SNES/Genesis era - very nostalgic stuff.

joe gracey

I really enjoyed that! Thanks for posting it.

naturon

Good stuff, Thanks JadeEye

Steve Schulze

There's a couple of others in the series already released. I'm currently working my way through one a group of coders playing and discussing the the never released DS version of Gauntlet which is pretty great.
[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHciTNzSaqI[/ame]

There's also one where one of DF's coders plays Mother/Earthbound. There didn't seem to be a whole lot of insight in that one, but it might be interesting if you have more patience for JRPGs than I do.
[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PWrklpoFAc[/ame]

I'm looking forward to the Doom one with special guest John Romero

lotet

ooh, shiny! thanks for the share man!


Day[9] also does this thing called "mostly walking" where he and his game develop buddies play through and analyze old school point and click games.
Though mostly aimed at entertainment, but still some pretty fun analysis here an there.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuspVV-EPOc&list=PLgmCLtUkEutI_xMjQoH17SCPUxVvLtiSH&index=1[/ame]