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Classic Game Postmortem - Another World

GDC Festival of Gaming · 24.5K views · 2018-11-30 · 1:05:45

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Overview

Eric Chahi's GDC 2011 postmortem of Another World (Out of This World), describing how he built the game. He shows his polygon art approach, rotoscoping and animation tools.

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HN points to it whenever Another World comes up, as one of the better GDC talks by the game's creator.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2020–2023

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pengaru · 2023-07 · Recommendation

The original developer of Another World did a GDC postmortem, it's one of the better GDC talks: [VIDEO] IIRC He shows some of his development tools including how he could modify and step through animation directly line by line in VM bytecode.

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slmjkdbtl · 2021-06 · Recommendation

Also check out Fabian Sanglard's articles [0] (there's a lot more on his article listings) about Another World if you haven't yet, also the author's GDC talk [1]. [0] [LINK] [1] [VIDEO]

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newnewpdro · 2020-01 · Recommendation

Another World's original author Eric Chahi gave a great GDC "Classic Game Postmortem" talk about creating the game: [VIDEO]

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