GAMING AND GRAPHICS A r e Virtual Worlds W o r t h I t ? to the left, the one below that downward to the right and so on. It wasn't physically possible to animate those kind of deformations on a model of the building, but the designers got away with the concept by omitting the vertical pieces that the horizontally aligned girders would have been attached to. And there are additional bits of strangeness. Barrels roll along the length of a girder so that the player can only see the end caps of each container, yet for some reason they rotate to face the player lengthwise when they roll down a ladder to the girder below. From a two-dimensional side view this sort of makes sense--oily, no it doesn't--but it doesn't jump out at the player as the contrived impossibility that it is in actuality! The Rise o f t h e T o u r i s t Industry As game graphics improved, there was a tendency co give the player more things to see. This was only natural. No matter how well drawn, Pat-Man or Missile Command only contained one screen. If you expanded
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Are virtual worlds worth it?
Hague, James
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, Volume 34 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – May 1, 2000
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