Robots are really cool

[edwoodjnr]

I know this is a little old (March 2014) and you may have already seen this but I thought I would share for those that haven't seen Eugene Jarvis giving a talk at GDC on Robotron 2084

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020591/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Robotron

In the talk he covers the hardware, story and provides a little insight to the AI routines

 

[cmonkey]

Thanks for sharing that. I have no interest in Robotron as a game but I always like to see and hear how games were developed back in the 80's.

 

[Mitchell Gant]

Just watched it, thanks for the link.

I thought it was very interesting, some good info on how it was designed and programmed with minimal development tools.

Girlfriend didn't agree though... she went back to playing some Runescape crap or something.

 

[edwoodjnr]

Yes I also enjoy reading about how the games were made and find it interesting about how the hardware limitations of the time gave us such great gameplay and sound effects.

I now must remember that enforcers are aiming for where I am heading, not where I was