A array of computer clear techniques accept been acclimated to affectation video bold agreeable throughout the history of video games. The advantage of alone techniques accept acquired over time, primarily due to accouterments advances and restrictions such as the processing ability of axial or cartoon processing units.
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Text-based
Some of the ancient video amateur were argument amateur or text-based amateur that acclimated argument characters instead of bitmapped or agent graphics. Examples accommodate MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons), area players could apprehend or appearance depictions of rooms, objects, added players, and accomplishments performed in the basic world; and roguelikes, a sub-genre of role-playing video amateur featuring abounding monsters, items, and ecology effects, as able-bodied as an accent on randomization, replayability and abiding death. Some of the ancient argument amateur were developed for computer systems which had no video affectation at all.
Text amateur are about easier to address and crave beneath processing ability than graphical games, and appropriately were added accepted from 1970 to 1990. However, terminal emulators are still in use today, and bodies abide to comedy MUDs and analyze alternate fiction. Abounding alpha programmers still actualize these types of amateur to accustom themselves with a programming language, and contests are captivated alike today on who can accomplishment programming a roguelike aural a abbreviate time period, such as seven days.1
edit Agent graphics
Main article: Agent graphics
Polygon-based cartoon in Another World (1991).2
Vector cartoon refers to the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, and curves (i.e. shapes based on algebraic equations) instead of resolution-dependent bitmap cartoon to represent images in computer graphics. In video amateur this blazon of bump is somewhat rare, but has become added accepted in contempo years in browser-based gaming with the appearance of Flash, back Flash supports agent cartoon natively. Earlier examples for the claimed computer are Starglider (1986) and Another World (1991).
Vector bold can additionally accredit to a video bold that uses a agent cartoon affectation able of bulging images application an electron axle to draw images instead of with pixels, abundant like a laser show. Abounding aboriginal arcade amateur acclimated such displays, as they were able of announcement added abundant images than raster displays on the accouterments accessible at that time. Abounding vector-based arcade amateur acclimated full-color overlays to accompaniment the contrarily connected agent images. Added uses of these overlays were actual abundant assets of the changeless gaming environment, while the affective altar were fatigued by the agent beam. Amateur of this blazon were produced mainly by Atari, Cinematronics, and Sega. Examples of agent amateur accommodate Armor Attack, Eliminator, Lunar Lander, Space Fury, Space Wars, Star Trek, Tac/Scan, Tempest and Zektor. The Vectrex home animate additionally acclimated a agent display. After 1985, agent cartoon were essentially crumbling due to improvements to sprite technology, rasterized 3D Filled Polygon Cartoon were abiding to the arcades and were so accepted in the backward 80s that agent cartoon can no best compete.3
Text amateur are about easier to address and crave beneath processing ability than graphical games, and appropriately were added accepted from 1970 to 1990. However, terminal emulators are still in use today, and bodies abide to comedy MUDs and analyze alternate fiction. Abounding alpha programmers still actualize these types of amateur to accustom themselves with a programming language, and contests are captivated alike today on who can accomplishment programming a roguelike aural a abbreviate time period, such as seven days.1
edit Agent graphics
Main article: Agent graphics
Polygon-based cartoon in Another World (1991).2
Vector cartoon refers to the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, and curves (i.e. shapes based on algebraic equations) instead of resolution-dependent bitmap cartoon to represent images in computer graphics. In video amateur this blazon of bump is somewhat rare, but has become added accepted in contempo years in browser-based gaming with the appearance of Flash, back Flash supports agent cartoon natively. Earlier examples for the claimed computer are Starglider (1986) and Another World (1991).
Vector bold can additionally accredit to a video bold that uses a agent cartoon affectation able of bulging images application an electron axle to draw images instead of with pixels, abundant like a laser show. Abounding aboriginal arcade amateur acclimated such displays, as they were able of announcement added abundant images than raster displays on the accouterments accessible at that time. Abounding vector-based arcade amateur acclimated full-color overlays to accompaniment the contrarily connected agent images. Added uses of these overlays were actual abundant assets of the changeless gaming environment, while the affective altar were fatigued by the agent beam. Amateur of this blazon were produced mainly by Atari, Cinematronics, and Sega. Examples of agent amateur accommodate Armor Attack, Eliminator, Lunar Lander, Space Fury, Space Wars, Star Trek, Tac/Scan, Tempest and Zektor. The Vectrex home animate additionally acclimated a agent display. After 1985, agent cartoon were essentially crumbling due to improvements to sprite technology, rasterized 3D Filled Polygon Cartoon were abiding to the arcades and were so accepted in the backward 80s that agent cartoon can no best compete.3
Full motion video
Full motion video (FMV) amateur are video amateur that await aloft pre-recorded television- or movie-quality recordings and animations rather than sprites, vectors or 3D models to affectation activity in the game. FMV-based amateur were accepted during the aboriginal 1990s as CD-ROMs and Laserdiscs fabricated their way into the active rooms, accouterment an another to the low-capacity cartridges of best consoles at the time. Although FMV-based amateur did administer to attending added good than abounding abreast sprite-based games, they active a alcove market; and a all-inclusive majority of FMV amateur were panned at the time of their release, with abounding gamers citation their animosity for the abridgement of alternation inherent in these games. As a result, the architecture became a acclaimed abortion in video gaming, and the acceptance of FMV amateur beneath essentially afterwards 1995 as added avant-garde consoles started to become broadly available.
A cardinal of altered types of amateur activated this format. Some resembled avant-garde music/dance games, area the amateur appropriate presses buttons according to a awning instruction. Others included aboriginal abuse shooters such as Tomcat Alley, Surgical Strike and Sewer Shark. Full motion video was additionally acclimated in several alternate cine chance games, such as The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery and Phantasmagoria.
A cardinal of altered types of amateur activated this format. Some resembled avant-garde music/dance games, area the amateur appropriate presses buttons according to a awning instruction. Others included aboriginal abuse shooters such as Tomcat Alley, Surgical Strike and Sewer Shark. Full motion video was additionally acclimated in several alternate cine chance games, such as The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery and Phantasmagoria.
2D
Parallel projection
Main article: Alongside projection
Games utilizing alongside bang about accomplish use of two-dimensional bitmap cartoon as against to 3D-rendered triangle-based geometry, acceptance developers to actualize large, circuitous gameworlds calmly and with almost few art assets by adding the art into sprites or tiles and reusing them again (though some amateur use a mix of altered techniques).
edit Top-down perspective
Top-down perspective, additionally sometimes referred to as bird's-eye view, aerial appearance or helicopter view, back acclimated in video amateur refers to a camera bend that shows the amateur and the breadth about them from above. While not absolute to video amateur that advance alongside projection, it was at one time accepted in 2D role arena video games, wargames and architecture and administration simulation amateur such as SimCity, Pokémon, and Railroad Tycoon, as able-bodied as in activity and action-adventure amateur such as the aboriginal The Legend of Zelda and Grand Theft Auto games.
edit Side-scrolling game
Main article: Side-scrolling video game
A side-scrolling bold or side-scroller is a video bold in which the angle is taken from the side, and the onscreen characters about move from the larboard ancillary of the awning to the right. Amateur of this blazon accomplish use of scrolling computer affectation technology, and sometimes parallax scrolling to advance added depth.
In abounding amateur the awning follows the amateur appearance such that the amateur appearance is consistently positioned abreast the centermost of the screen. In added amateur the position of the awning will change according to the amateur character's movement, such that the amateur appearance is askance and added amplitude is apparent in advanced of the appearance than behind. Sometimes, the awning will annal not alone advanced in the acceleration and administration of the amateur character's movement, but additionally backwards to ahead visited genitalia of a stage. In added amateur or stages, the awning will alone annal forwards, not backwards, so that already a date has been anesthetized it can no best be visited. In amateur such as shoot 'em ups like R-type, the awning scrolls advanced by itself at a abiding rate, and the amateur charge accumulate up with the screen, attempting to abstain obstacles and aggregate things afore they canyon off screen.
Examples of side-scrolling amateur accommodate belvedere amateur such as Sonic the Hedgehog, exhausted 'em ups such as the accepted Double Dragon and Battletoads, and shooters such as R-type and (more recently) Jets'n'Guns. The Super Mario Bros. alternation has acclimated all three types of side-scrolling at some time in its history.
edit 2.5D, 3/4 perspective, and pseudo-3D
Main article: 2.5D
See also: Isometric cartoon in video amateur and Parallax scrolling
Axonometric bang in Fallout 2 (1999).
2.5D ("two-and-a-half-dimensional"), 3/4 bend and pseudo-3D are breezy agreement acclimated to call graphical projections and techniques that try to "fake" three-dimensionality, about by application some anatomy of alongside projection, wherein the point of appearance is from a anchored perspective, but additionally reveals assorted facets of an object. Examples of pseudo-3D techniques accommodate isometric/axonometric projection, angled projection, orthographic projection, billboarding, parallax scrolling, scaling, skyboxes, and skydomes. In addition, 3D graphical techniques such as bang mapping and parallax mapping are generally acclimated to extend the apparition of three-dimensionality after essentially accretion the consistent computational aerial alien by accretion the polygon count.
The agreement sometimes acquire a additional meaning, wherein the gameplay in an contrarily 3D bold is forcibly belted to a two-dimensional plane.
Examples of amateur that accomplish use of pseudo-3D techniques accommodate Zaxxon, The Sims and Diablo (isometric/axonometric projection); Ultima VII and Paperboy (oblique projection); Sonic the Hedgehog and Street Fighter II (parallax scrolling); Fonz and Amplitude Harrier (scaling); and Half-Life 2 (skyboxes). In accession to axonometric projection, amateur such as The Sims and Final Fantasy Tactics additionally accomplish use of a aggregate of pre-drawn 2D sprites and real-time polygonal cartoon instead of relying absolutely on 2D sprites as is the norm.
Main article: Alongside projection
Games utilizing alongside bang about accomplish use of two-dimensional bitmap cartoon as against to 3D-rendered triangle-based geometry, acceptance developers to actualize large, circuitous gameworlds calmly and with almost few art assets by adding the art into sprites or tiles and reusing them again (though some amateur use a mix of altered techniques).
edit Top-down perspective
Top-down perspective, additionally sometimes referred to as bird's-eye view, aerial appearance or helicopter view, back acclimated in video amateur refers to a camera bend that shows the amateur and the breadth about them from above. While not absolute to video amateur that advance alongside projection, it was at one time accepted in 2D role arena video games, wargames and architecture and administration simulation amateur such as SimCity, Pokémon, and Railroad Tycoon, as able-bodied as in activity and action-adventure amateur such as the aboriginal The Legend of Zelda and Grand Theft Auto games.
edit Side-scrolling game
Main article: Side-scrolling video game
A side-scrolling bold or side-scroller is a video bold in which the angle is taken from the side, and the onscreen characters about move from the larboard ancillary of the awning to the right. Amateur of this blazon accomplish use of scrolling computer affectation technology, and sometimes parallax scrolling to advance added depth.
In abounding amateur the awning follows the amateur appearance such that the amateur appearance is consistently positioned abreast the centermost of the screen. In added amateur the position of the awning will change according to the amateur character's movement, such that the amateur appearance is askance and added amplitude is apparent in advanced of the appearance than behind. Sometimes, the awning will annal not alone advanced in the acceleration and administration of the amateur character's movement, but additionally backwards to ahead visited genitalia of a stage. In added amateur or stages, the awning will alone annal forwards, not backwards, so that already a date has been anesthetized it can no best be visited. In amateur such as shoot 'em ups like R-type, the awning scrolls advanced by itself at a abiding rate, and the amateur charge accumulate up with the screen, attempting to abstain obstacles and aggregate things afore they canyon off screen.
Examples of side-scrolling amateur accommodate belvedere amateur such as Sonic the Hedgehog, exhausted 'em ups such as the accepted Double Dragon and Battletoads, and shooters such as R-type and (more recently) Jets'n'Guns. The Super Mario Bros. alternation has acclimated all three types of side-scrolling at some time in its history.
edit 2.5D, 3/4 perspective, and pseudo-3D
Main article: 2.5D
See also: Isometric cartoon in video amateur and Parallax scrolling
Axonometric bang in Fallout 2 (1999).
2.5D ("two-and-a-half-dimensional"), 3/4 bend and pseudo-3D are breezy agreement acclimated to call graphical projections and techniques that try to "fake" three-dimensionality, about by application some anatomy of alongside projection, wherein the point of appearance is from a anchored perspective, but additionally reveals assorted facets of an object. Examples of pseudo-3D techniques accommodate isometric/axonometric projection, angled projection, orthographic projection, billboarding, parallax scrolling, scaling, skyboxes, and skydomes. In addition, 3D graphical techniques such as bang mapping and parallax mapping are generally acclimated to extend the apparition of three-dimensionality after essentially accretion the consistent computational aerial alien by accretion the polygon count.
The agreement sometimes acquire a additional meaning, wherein the gameplay in an contrarily 3D bold is forcibly belted to a two-dimensional plane.
Examples of amateur that accomplish use of pseudo-3D techniques accommodate Zaxxon, The Sims and Diablo (isometric/axonometric projection); Ultima VII and Paperboy (oblique projection); Sonic the Hedgehog and Street Fighter II (parallax scrolling); Fonz and Amplitude Harrier (scaling); and Half-Life 2 (skyboxes). In accession to axonometric projection, amateur such as The Sims and Final Fantasy Tactics additionally accomplish use of a aggregate of pre-drawn 2D sprites and real-time polygonal cartoon instead of relying absolutely on 2D sprites as is the norm.
3D
With the appearance of 3D accelerated graphics, video amateur could aggrandize aloft the about sprite-based 2D cartoon of beforehand cartoon technologies to call a appearance frequently added accurate to absoluteness and conscientious than their predecessors. Angle bump has additionally been acclimated in some beforehand titles to present a 3D appearance from a anchored (and appropriately somewhat beneath hardware-intensive) angle with a bound adeptness to move.
edit Anchored 3D
Fixed 3D refers to a three-dimensional representation of the bold apple area beginning altar (i.e. bold characters) are about rendered in absolute time adjoin a changeless background. The arch advantage of this address is its adeptness to affectation a aerial akin of detail on basal hardware. The capital disadvantage is that the player's anatomy of advertence charcoal anchored at all times, preventing players from analytical or affective about the ambiance from assorted viewpoints.
Backgrounds in anchored 3D amateur tend to be pre-rendered two-dimensional images, but are sometimes rendered in absolute time (e.g. Blade Runner). The developers of SimCity 4 took advantage of anchored angle by not texturing the about-face abandon of altar (and thereby dispatch up rendering) which players could not see anyway.4 Anchored 3D is additionally sometimes acclimated to "fake" areas which are aloof to players. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, for instance, is about absolutely 3D, but uses anchored 3D to represent abounding of the architecture interiors as able-bodied as one absolute town. (This address was after alone in favor of full-3D in the game's successor, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.) A agnate technique, the skybox, is acclimated in abounding 3D amateur to represent abroad accomplishments altar that are not account apprehension in absolute time.
Used heavily in the adaptation abhorrence genre, anchored 3D was aboriginal apparent in Infogrames' Alone in the Dark alternation in the aboriginal 1990s. It was after active and brought abreast by Capcom in the Resident Evil series. Gameplay-wise there is little aberration amid anchored 3D amateur and their 2D precursors. Players' adeptness to cross aural a arena still tends to be limited, and alternation with the gameworld charcoal mostly "point-and-click".
Further examples accommodate the PlayStation-era titles in the Final Fantasy alternation (Square); the role-playing amateur Parasite Eve and Parasite Eve II (Square); the action-adventure amateur Ecstatica and Ecstatica 2 (Andrew Spencer/Psygnosis), as able-bodied as Little Big Chance (Adeline Software International); the clear chance Grim Fandango (LucasArts); and 3D Movie Maker (Microsoft Kids).
Pre-rendered backgrounds are additionally begin in some isometric video games, such as the role-playing bold The Temple of Elemental Evil (Troika Games) and the Baldur's Gate alternation (BioWare); admitting in these cases the anatomy of graphical bump acclimated is not different.
edit First-person perspective
Main article: Aboriginal being (video games)
Screenshot of Akalabeth: Apple of Doom (1979).
Early 3D wireframe cartoon in Akalabeth: Apple of Doom (1979).
Screenshot of Half-Life (1998).
First-person angle as apparent in Half-Life (1998).
First being refers to a graphical angle rendered from the angle of the amateur character. In abounding cases, this may be the angle from the cockpit of a vehicle. Abounding altered genres accept fabricated use of first-person perspectives, alignment from chance amateur to flight simulators. Perhaps the best notable brand to accomplish use of this accessory is the first-person ballista genre, area the graphical angle has an immense appulse on bold play.
Games with a first-person angle are usually avatar-based, wherein the bold displays what the player's avatar would see with the avatar's own eyes. Thus, players about cannot see the avatar's body, admitting they may be able to see the avatar's weapons or hands. This angle is additionally frequently acclimated to represent the angle of a disciplinarian aural a vehicle, as in flight and antagonism simulators; and it is accepted to accomplish use of positional audio, area the aggregate of ambient sounds varies depending on their position with account to the player's avatar.5
Games with a first-person angle do not crave adult animations for the player's avatar, and do not charge to apparatus a chiral or automatic camera-control arrangement as in third-person perspective.5 A aboriginal being angle allows for easier aiming, aback there is no representation of the avatar to block the player's view. However, the absence of an avatar can accomplish it difficult to adept the timing and distances adapted to jump amid platforms, and may account motion affection in some players.5
Players accept appear to apprehend first-person amateur to accurately calibration altar to adapted sizes. However, key altar such as alone items or levers may be abstract in adjustment to advance their visibility.5
edit Third-person perspective
Main article: Virtual camera system
Third being refers to a graphical angle rendered from a appearance that is some ambit abroad (usually abaft and hardly above) from the players character.5 This angle allows players to see a added acerb characterized avatar, and is best accepted in activity and action-adventure games.5 This angle poses some difficulties, however, in that aback the amateur turns or stands with his aback to a wall, the camera may jerk or end up in awkward positions. Developers accept approved to allay this affair by implementing able camera systems, or by giving the amateur ascendancy over the camera.5 There are three primary types of third-person camera systems: "fixed camera systems" in which the camera positions are set during the bold creation; "tracking camera systems" in which the camera artlessly follows the player's character; and "interactive camera systems" that are beneath the player's control.
Examples of amateur utilizing third-person angle accommodate Super Mario 64, the Tomb Raider series, and Crash Bandicoot.
edit Anchored 3D
Fixed 3D refers to a three-dimensional representation of the bold apple area beginning altar (i.e. bold characters) are about rendered in absolute time adjoin a changeless background. The arch advantage of this address is its adeptness to affectation a aerial akin of detail on basal hardware. The capital disadvantage is that the player's anatomy of advertence charcoal anchored at all times, preventing players from analytical or affective about the ambiance from assorted viewpoints.
Backgrounds in anchored 3D amateur tend to be pre-rendered two-dimensional images, but are sometimes rendered in absolute time (e.g. Blade Runner). The developers of SimCity 4 took advantage of anchored angle by not texturing the about-face abandon of altar (and thereby dispatch up rendering) which players could not see anyway.4 Anchored 3D is additionally sometimes acclimated to "fake" areas which are aloof to players. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, for instance, is about absolutely 3D, but uses anchored 3D to represent abounding of the architecture interiors as able-bodied as one absolute town. (This address was after alone in favor of full-3D in the game's successor, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.) A agnate technique, the skybox, is acclimated in abounding 3D amateur to represent abroad accomplishments altar that are not account apprehension in absolute time.
Used heavily in the adaptation abhorrence genre, anchored 3D was aboriginal apparent in Infogrames' Alone in the Dark alternation in the aboriginal 1990s. It was after active and brought abreast by Capcom in the Resident Evil series. Gameplay-wise there is little aberration amid anchored 3D amateur and their 2D precursors. Players' adeptness to cross aural a arena still tends to be limited, and alternation with the gameworld charcoal mostly "point-and-click".
Further examples accommodate the PlayStation-era titles in the Final Fantasy alternation (Square); the role-playing amateur Parasite Eve and Parasite Eve II (Square); the action-adventure amateur Ecstatica and Ecstatica 2 (Andrew Spencer/Psygnosis), as able-bodied as Little Big Chance (Adeline Software International); the clear chance Grim Fandango (LucasArts); and 3D Movie Maker (Microsoft Kids).
Pre-rendered backgrounds are additionally begin in some isometric video games, such as the role-playing bold The Temple of Elemental Evil (Troika Games) and the Baldur's Gate alternation (BioWare); admitting in these cases the anatomy of graphical bump acclimated is not different.
edit First-person perspective
Main article: Aboriginal being (video games)
Screenshot of Akalabeth: Apple of Doom (1979).
Early 3D wireframe cartoon in Akalabeth: Apple of Doom (1979).
Screenshot of Half-Life (1998).
First-person angle as apparent in Half-Life (1998).
First being refers to a graphical angle rendered from the angle of the amateur character. In abounding cases, this may be the angle from the cockpit of a vehicle. Abounding altered genres accept fabricated use of first-person perspectives, alignment from chance amateur to flight simulators. Perhaps the best notable brand to accomplish use of this accessory is the first-person ballista genre, area the graphical angle has an immense appulse on bold play.
Games with a first-person angle are usually avatar-based, wherein the bold displays what the player's avatar would see with the avatar's own eyes. Thus, players about cannot see the avatar's body, admitting they may be able to see the avatar's weapons or hands. This angle is additionally frequently acclimated to represent the angle of a disciplinarian aural a vehicle, as in flight and antagonism simulators; and it is accepted to accomplish use of positional audio, area the aggregate of ambient sounds varies depending on their position with account to the player's avatar.5
Games with a first-person angle do not crave adult animations for the player's avatar, and do not charge to apparatus a chiral or automatic camera-control arrangement as in third-person perspective.5 A aboriginal being angle allows for easier aiming, aback there is no representation of the avatar to block the player's view. However, the absence of an avatar can accomplish it difficult to adept the timing and distances adapted to jump amid platforms, and may account motion affection in some players.5
Players accept appear to apprehend first-person amateur to accurately calibration altar to adapted sizes. However, key altar such as alone items or levers may be abstract in adjustment to advance their visibility.5
edit Third-person perspective
Main article: Virtual camera system
Third being refers to a graphical angle rendered from a appearance that is some ambit abroad (usually abaft and hardly above) from the players character.5 This angle allows players to see a added acerb characterized avatar, and is best accepted in activity and action-adventure games.5 This angle poses some difficulties, however, in that aback the amateur turns or stands with his aback to a wall, the camera may jerk or end up in awkward positions. Developers accept approved to allay this affair by implementing able camera systems, or by giving the amateur ascendancy over the camera.5 There are three primary types of third-person camera systems: "fixed camera systems" in which the camera positions are set during the bold creation; "tracking camera systems" in which the camera artlessly follows the player's character; and "interactive camera systems" that are beneath the player's control.
Examples of amateur utilizing third-person angle accommodate Super Mario 64, the Tomb Raider series, and Crash Bandicoot.
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