[HN Gopher] The Making Of Grand Theft Auto (1996) [video]
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The Making Of Grand Theft Auto (1996) [video]
Author : chha
Score : 148 points
Date : 2022-05-09 12:53 UTC (10 hours ago)
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| corysama wrote:
| For more vids like this, check out
| https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/
| Pr0ject217 wrote:
| Thank you!
| MomoXenosaga wrote:
| GTA was so cool. Peak 90s edge. Nintendo was for kids PlayStation
| was going for the teenagers/young adults.
| fgh wrote:
| A long time ago, I found a website with a description of how the
| 2.5d engine of GTA works. Would anybody here maybe remember where
| that was posted and could provide an URL?
| rzzzt wrote:
| Not quite what you are looking for, but if you like long-form
| programming videos, javidx9 constructs a similar game engine in
| an hour or so in "Top Down City Based Car Crime Game":
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD6b_hP17WI
| rasz wrote:
| Grand Theft Auto: The Complete History - SGR
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX0Fk8ZOXXA had a funny analogy
| - imagine a sprite fighting game (or just play Street Fighter
| 2) with 2D background but perspective corrected floor
| https://sf2platinum.wordpress.com/ Its a neat case of pseudo 3D
| with constant Z planes like in Doom, no need for division per
| pixel to fix perspective means fast.
| GlennS wrote:
| Still gutted they never made Grand Theft Auto: Weston-super-Mare.
| midasuni wrote:
| When the 1969 expansion came out it too was rated 18. I was 16,
| went into Manchester and bought it. Felt like a rebel.
|
| Then on the metro back with my child ticket (valid upto the age
| of 15) I got stopped. My friend didn't even have a ticket and
| he got fined, but they let me off as I at least had a ticket.
|
| Felt like such a rebel that day.
| leakbang wrote:
| For those interested: The Design Behind Grand Theft Auto 3
|
| https://youtu.be/qUI0moGiNuw
| bonoboTP wrote:
| It's crazy to see all these interviews from >25 years ago.
| Everything is calmer, people are more soft-spoken, they think
| before they speak. They come across as some mix of wholesome,
| endearingly naive and balanced, genuine etc (it's the tone of
| voice, the facial expressions, the body language, everything).
| compared to the media frenzy today, including the shouting
| grimacing screaming youtubers, the constant crisis mode, everyone
| putting on an act etc.
|
| I'm not saying the world had no problems, I was alive, I know it
| wasn't paradise. But the contrast is always noticable whenever I
| watch old footage, eg asking people's opinions on the street etc.
| Or there was also a video about some friends having fun at
| Disneyland and it all seemed much calmer than today.
| RGamma wrote:
| (In American media, but also elsewhere) It was calmer than
| today but it has become pointless to lament the loss of
| serenity in an age where attention spans are measured in
| days/few weeks and no voices speak above the loudest (I have
| tried many times, but got drowned by the social media opinion
| tsunami). It crushes the soul and it has spread.
|
| Heck, it's like those who are sensitive to this phenomenon have
| left or got sucked into it (sadly this includes me at times)
| and those who remain have no idea what has even happened
| (generally speaking).
|
| Like when we used to say, woah this whole social media thing is
| a giant experiment, wonder whether that'll go well. Yeah,
| apparently 90% didn't wonder; they just _did_.
|
| P.S. my earlier comment is an instance of this
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31270985
| bowsamic wrote:
| Are you sure it isn't just that they're British? I think a lot
| of the intensity came from the US. When I grew up in the UK, we
| used to joke about Americans being insane and loud, but now we
| are copying them...
| Cloudef wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxSdWhkMB_A You may like this
| too
| corford wrote:
| Definitely. It often feels a lot more calmer and thoughtful
| e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgMPr0UZObY (came up as a
| recommendation after watching the article video)
| bonoboTP wrote:
| Or this Stallone interview (also YT recommendation)
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFlybZL1mWE If a movie star
| went into that contemplative mode today, the interviewer
| would feel some kind of awkward tension and would immediately
| crack a joke or somehow lift up the conversation back to the
| surface level. You only get this stuff now on podcasts.
|
| As for your video, just imagine uttering the words "complex
| mathematics" today unironically in an entertainment-related
| interview. The interviewer would have to immediately
| ironically say something like "oh, you lost me there" or
| something like "you're such a wizard, I can't even file my
| taxes" or so. Somehow genuineness and any level of
| seriousness is seen as kryptonite for the media today.
| deepsun wrote:
| Sounds similar to ever-increasing sweetness of soda drinks: if
| your drink has 3% more sugar than competitor, it just "tastes
| better". So the market gradually falls into super-sweet.
| dncornholio wrote:
| Today, it is important to act you have 1000% more fun than
| the person before. Dude, you're just having a few beers with
| friends and you act like you just got married.
| xdfgh1112 wrote:
| A good argument for sugar tax, even if a lot of people
| complain about it.
| deepsun wrote:
| And confidence. Nowadays everyone look super-confident.
| neilv wrote:
| "Susan Kare explains Macintosh UI ergonomics on the Computer
| Chronicles (1984)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_q50tvbQm4
|
| She's demonstrating something pretty new and significant to a
| lot of people.
|
| Maybe software _job_ interviews have followed a related arc, to
| amped-up performance art rituals and shibboleths, from genuine
| meaningful down-to-earth conversation.
| jl6 wrote:
| Maybe the difference is that in 1996 games were still somewhat
| nerd-niche rather than mass media. If you look at mainstream
| interviews of the time with, say, pop stars, I think you see
| the same kind of hype/glaze/insincerity. The person sinks
| beneath the brand.
| Jimmy wrote:
| I agree. People will be quick to say that that's just your
| nostalgia talking, but taken to an extreme, that argument would
| entail that culture and patterns of behavior never change,
| which is equally implausible.
| dilyevsky wrote:
| Love the patronizing tone! So 90s
| fancyfredbot wrote:
| I really enjoyed the patient explanation that no, they play
| games in their lunch hour but what they get paid for is
| developing games which is what they do the rest of the day.
| jamal-kumar wrote:
| I cracked up at "Now you might think Darren here has gone
| completely mad..."
| sgt wrote:
| A gurrl working in this place with only boys! Well, how did
| YOU end up with this job then?
| tombot wrote:
| There's a longer documentary released by noclip Dec 2021 which
| expands on some of the history
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev7FqNa5rD0
| lostgame wrote:
| Thank you! I lamented greatly how short the clip was. When I
| saw it was only 6min I almost didn't bother watching it - how
| the hell in-depth can a 6 minute video be...
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