L4D in Old Nintendo 8-Bit Style

[HornetAJC]

http://sites.google.com/site/ericdavidruth/_/rsrc/1259656503559/game-left4dead/Logo_L4D.jpg

Eric Ruth Games (http://www.ericruthgames.com/) has come out with an unofficial 8-bit version (http://kotaku.com/5440587/unofficial-8+bit-left-4-dead-now-available) of Left 4 Dead for PC, in case you wanted to conjure up nostalgic feelings of Nintendo glory! Gameplay video attached, that reminds you of a mix between original Legend of Zelda and Gauntlet. Thanks to Kotaku for the story.

[Anenome]

That is both way too awesome and completely hilarious ^_^ I love the shotgun sound effect!

[Mav]

old news is old

[pwnophobia]

old news is old

Oh cool, glad Kotaku and every other news outlet including Evil Avatar is late to the party!

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[revelation]

Heh. That's pretty cute. I'll have to give it a try when I get home.

[Aneurhythmia]

old news is old

There was a gameplay video a while ago, but I'm pretty sure it was just released.

[StANTo]

old news is old

It's existence is old news; it being released is new.

[senorduck]

Old news is new news for users not plastered to the internet morning, noon, and night.

[the soUL TRAder]

old news is old

Useless post is idiotic.

I loved it! Why don't more developers work in 8 bit, imagine the open world game you could create with todays tech if you did 8 bit graphics.

[Anenome]

I loved it! Why don't more developers work in 8 bit, imagine the open world game you could create with todays tech if you did 8 bit graphics.
It's cool, but I don't think it would sell. Well, it would probably sell, just on the DS. Question is why someone with this much ability isn't making DS games :P If I had games programming ability, I'd pump out a Chrono Trigger-style clone in no time :P

But, if you did want to move backwards on tech, it would be interesting to create a recursive system, meaning that rather than going back to program with pixels, why not use polygonal cubes as if they were square pixels, zoomed out to the distance of a pixel. The things you could do with 2D graphics made of apparent pixels actually being rendered with polygons would prove mindbending, I think.

[lockwoodx]

If they put it on a cartridge and had all 4 campaigns I would buy it just to support them.

[Rafer]

Gameplay video attached, that reminds you of a mix between original Legend of Zelda and Gauntlet. Thanks to Kotaku for the story.

To me it looks a lot like the NES version of "Alien Syndrome". Especially the way the characters move and the look of the bullets.

[Kragg]

It's cool, but I don't think it would sell. Well, it would probably sell, just on the DS. Question is why someone with this much ability isn't making DS games :P If I had games programming ability, I'd pump out a Chrono Trigger-style clone in no time :P

But, if you did want to move backwards on tech, it would be interesting to create a recursive system, meaning that rather than going back to program with pixels, why not use polygonal cubes as if they were square pixels, zoomed out to the distance of a pixel. The things you could do with 2D graphics made of apparent pixels actually being rendered with polygons would prove mindbending, I think.


mind=blown

[yutt]

...why not use polygonal cubes as if they were square pixels, zoomed out to the distance of a pixel. The things you could do with 2D graphics made of apparent pixels actually being rendered with polygons would prove mindbending, I think.
While not exactly what you are describing, this is similar to how many "2D" games function now, rendering what appear to be sprites as 3D elements.

It also reminds me of how voxel engines work, which were a brief direction some 3D engines went early on. Delta Force 2 comes immediately to mind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Force_2#Game_engine

Or there is the upcoming 3D Dot Game Heroes for the PS3, which is absolutely adorable: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/20/from-softwares-3d-dot-game-heroes-does-pixel-art-ps3-style/

[yutt]

A more knowledge friend informed me the 2D-sprite-in-3D-engine is usually called a textured quad.
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1972.asp

[atariv8]

I still love this one:

http://www.mojang.com/notch/j4k/l4kd/