Mega Man, a series franchise was born in the month of December, a series we rarely hear about today but one that inspired many great games in the side scrolling genre. Mega Man was foundation brick in the early Nintendo consoles and a bread winner for Capcom, he was a mascot to represent a genre typically dominated by Mario.
The name Mega Man, in the 1980’s was synonymous with the word awesome. It was also synonymous with the word difficult.
A character that had so much potential you can now find him in mobile phone gaming and the virtual console in Europe.
“In the year 200X, master robot designer Dr. Thomas Light, and his assistant, Dr. Wily, worked on a project to create human-like robots with advanced intelligence.” (wikipedia) Each robot was designed to perform a specific task, Cut Man was designed to cut down trees, Guts Man is designed to pickup heavy things, Ice man for arctic exploration, etc. His assistant grew envious of Dr Light so he reprogrammed the robots to do his bidding, which was nothing but evil. Your job is to undo this evil.
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… what’s with the bagpipes and “Amazing Grace”? Don’s not dead, he just got busy with family. He’ll get back, once in a while …
:)) chemically enhanced? Rub it the right way?! Man, this already sounds fun …
I loved the questions from Tristan. The first batch of questions was excellent, pairing companies, games, games and hardware, excellent!
As for games in browsers, well, that’s almost true. Currently there are plug-ins that allow you to play some really neat games. Unity 3D, Panda 3D, Blender 3D, all these can play games in browsers.
Quake Live, Battlefield Heroes – all games in browsers.
Jonah is right on the money with the bandwidth issue. Browser based games need, at some point, to transfer their art assets locally. Now, funny though, the plug-ins are third party, they’re not developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Add to that getting the art assets locally. That’s no longer a browser based game. It is played in a browser, but the browser is just a container.
HTML5 can already be used to develop games. Remember when Google let you play Pac Man straight in the browser with no plug-in?
Now, I don’t see HTML5 doing 3d graphics any time soon though …
Gaaah! Enough with the death references already!
… what’s with the bagpipes and “Amazing Grace”? Don’s not dead, he just got busy with family. He’ll get back, once in a while …
:)) chemically enhanced? Rub it the right way?! Man, this already sounds fun …
I loved the questions from Tristan. The first batch of questions was excellent, pairing companies, games, games and hardware, excellent!
As for games in browsers, well, that’s almost true. Currently there are plug-ins that allow you to play some really neat games. Unity 3D, Panda 3D, Blender 3D, all these can play games in browsers.
Quake Live, Battlefield Heroes – all games in browsers.
Jonah is right on the money with the bandwidth issue. Browser based games need, at some point, to transfer their art assets locally. Now, funny though, the plug-ins are third party, they’re not developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Add to that getting the art assets locally. That’s no longer a browser based game. It is played in a browser, but the browser is just a container.
HTML5 can already be used to develop games. Remember when Google let you play Pac Man straight in the browser with no plug-in?
Now, I don’t see HTML5 doing 3d graphics any time soon though …
Gaaah! Enough with the death references already!
Loved the episode. Loved everyones questions and the way you all come to your respective answers, was often very funny and at times even very clever.
Glad I’m wasnt asnwering them as I only got a couple right. Congrats Don on winning, though if the bet stands I guess Derrick came out $1 richer than everyone else.
Finally, I was very pleased that a couple of my questions stumped Jonah, but his knowledge is fearsome.
Loved the episode. Loved everyones questions and the way you all come to your respective answers, was often very funny and at times even very clever.
Glad I’m wasnt asnwering them as I only got a couple right. Congrats Don on winning, though if the bet stands I guess Derrick came out $1 richer than everyone else.
Finally, I was very pleased that a couple of my questions stumped Jonah, but his knowledge is fearsome.