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Thank heavens it was released on other platforms as well (such as Atari, Amiga and of course, DOS) because Apple II's are hard to come by these days. If you have to summarize this game in one sentence it would be "Air hockey against aliens!". He had a little game on the thing however, which I was particularly fond of. Back then, I was not very impressed by the monochrome (and puny) display the thing had and I seriously mistrusted the mouse, because I was used to nice 16 colors, joysticks and big TV's from my own C64. I now have unrealistically high hopes.When I was 12 years old, my father's neighbor had bought an Apple II. The animated title screen scene up there (with post-processing shaders and all) was created in one day. I have a good amount of experience with 3D games and the few days I’ve played around with Unity so far have been pretty productive. Also, it’s time to finally see why 90% of the indie scene is using Unity. I fell in love with Haxe/OpenFL on my last project but unfortunately the 3D situation is not that great there yet. One interesting problem with 1-bit rendering is that it doesn’t scale well for images and it compresses to video like shit - so YouTube stuff may look really poor. I plan to push it grittier and less cartoon-like than those old games the hard part will be keeping everything legible without it becoming an unreadable mess of dithered pixels.
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I’d like to capture the detailed black & white look of old Mac games in a realtime 1st person game. I’ve always had a nostalgia-softened spot in my heart for 1-bit graphics. My Maya skills are pretty rusty so I expect the modelling/animation to take the most time. The lower bound for finishing this game is around 3 months but realistically I think it will take me around half a year. P,P still takes a good amount of my time so there’s less chance for me to maintain a laser-like focus on one project like last time. Things will likely also move slower than Papers Please did too, at least at the start. I will post lots of pictures and builds as soon as I’m able. Because the gameplay itself is more standard, there probably won’t be as many creative updates as the Papers Please devlog. I’ll try to keep this devlog lively as I make progress.
There’s a slightly cool gameplay hook but I won’t go into details on that until much later. It won’t be the typical “collect items and look for clues” structure. I’m hoping to capture a compelling mystery with suspense and twists in the limited space of an old merchant sailing ship. Right now I have only a rough idea about the narrative. There’ll be less creativity with the gameplay and instead I want to experiment with the rendering, story, and a few technical features. I want to challenge myself so this’ll be a very different game from anything I’ve done before, including Papers Please. As insurance adjustor for the East India Company’s London Office, find means to board the ship and recover the captain’s logbook for assessment. Early this morning of October 14th, 1808, the Obra Dinn drifted into port with sails damaged and no visible crew. Six months later it hadn’t met its rendezvous point at the Cape of Good Hope and was declared lost at sea. In 1802, the merchant ship “Obra Dinn” set out from London for the Orient with over 200 tons of trade goods. My next project will be a 3D first-person mystery game set on an East Indiaman merchant ship in 1808. Pope announced the new project this morning on The Independent Gaming Source forums. After winning many awards his 2013 indie masterpiece Papers, Please, Lucas Pope takes old school to the next level in Return of the Obra Dinn, a first-person 3D adventure rendered in the 1-bit style of ancient Mac games.
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