Rotating Tower Platform Game Tutorial

[rich]

 

If you’ve been around long enough you might have played Nebulus on the c64 (I think it was called ‘Tower Toppler’ on other platforms). It pushed the limits of what the c64 could do graphically, but it was also a great game to play with challenging level design.

 

http://codeincomplete.com/posts/2013/10/27/rotating_tower_platformer/

[alex_h]

I used to love that game! I had it on the Atari 520 ST. I've often thought about making something based on it.

[KyleNau]

I did find this quote a little odd: "If I wanted to build mobile I would go 100% native."

 

There's nothing in that demo that wouldn't work on mobile.

[jakesgordon]

@kylenau, I'm the author of the demo/article, just wanted to clarify that quote because I tend to say it a lot :-)

 

I agree with you, this demo would work fine on mobile... although the amount of work that would need to be done to make it performant across devices is... lets just say... non-trivial.

 

I find the HTML5/javascript/browser environment a fantastic environment for prototypying, experimenting, and learning game development techniques, its quick and easy and the distribution model is fantastic...

 

... however, and this might be a controversial statement in this forum :-), but I believe it has always, and will always be a step behind native platforms in terms of capabilities, performance, development tools, etc.

 

So when I say "real game" I tend to mean in terms of a modern day game, a "Stanley Parable", "Fez", "Spelunky", "The Swapper", "Minecraft", "Antichamber", etc

 

 

But you're absolutely right, this particular demo would actually work pretty well on most modern mobile devices.