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Classic Game Postmortem - Another World

GDC Festival of Gaming · talk · Watch on YouTube

Game history & retro gamingGame designAnimation & visual effects

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Eric Chahi gave a great GDC”

    Another World's creator discusses how the game was made.

    newnewpdro, 2020-01 · Recommendation · in “The Polygons of Another World”

  2. “Very cool video, wherein Chahi demonstrates his rotoscoping system”

    Chahi explains polygon choice and shows his rotoscoping and animation tools.

    JohnBooty, 2020-01 · Recommendation · in “The Polygons of Another World: Amiga 500”

  3. “also the author's GDC talk”

    The author's GDC talk on Another World.

    slmjkdbtl, 2021-06 · Recommendation · in “Another World: Genesis”

  4. “it's one of the better GDC talks”

    Developer shows his tools and steps through animation VM bytecode.

    pengaru, 2023-07 · Recommendation · in “Another World Ported to FPGA”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: another world, eric chahi, gdc, rotoscoping, retro games, polygon graphics

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