This is a comic by AbTeC-er Beth Dillion. Beth will be at our next workshop in January. You can read this comic online at: http://www.zeros2heroes.com/property/the-west-was-lost. Make sure you read in the full screen mode because there is a really cool full screen comic reader.
How Improved Graphics and Budgets has Led to “Game-Storytelling”
By Nancy Elizabeth Townsend
1. Atari’s PONG (1971)
Atari’s Pong (1971)
In the beginning, a player’s immersion into a video gaming environment required them to do nothing more than control a moving block on a black and white screen. Needless to say, we have much improved since. Some of the most recent console blockbusters allow the rendering of not only realistic and customizable characters, but each can have over 200 animations played based on user input. (more…)