How Retro Gaming Influences Modern Game Design 🕹️

 

Old Nintendo Gaming Console - Free Stock Image

Retro gaming can be considered the good old days, when we had limited save slots, had to blow on our cartridges before using them, and enjoyed pixelated graphics. While it was a simpler time in gaming, it helped to shape today’s gaming market as we know it. As such, it's safe to say retro gaming is not dead. Instead, it lives on as an influence, a blueprint, if you will, for your favourite current AAA titles. But, how have these retro titles helped shape the present? 

Trapped on a Dying Planet…My Only Hope? Me! | The Alters | Ten Minute Taster | Quick Look👨🏻🧔🏻‍♂️ @altersgame @11bitstudios #IndieGame #GameDev

Rich plays The Alters on PC which is a survival game developed by 11 Bit Studios, where players control Jan Dolski, a space miner stranded on a hostile planet. To survive, Jan must create alternate versions of himself, known as Alters, using a mysterious material called Rapidium. Each Alter represents a different life path Jan could have taken, bringing unique skills and personalities to help maintain a massive, wheel-shaped mobile base.

NACON RIG 400 GEN2 HS in Arctic Camo Review By Britt

The first thing you notice when unboxing the headset is how striking the camo design is, the colours match the PS5 and result in a nice visual parallel. The Arctic Camo is a PlayStation edition, but there is also another edition - Urban Camo - which is designed for Xbox consoles.  The headset works with most consoles (PS5,PS4,Xbox and Switch) and PC so you can pick up either design, it doesn't just have to match the console, maybe if you are in the middle of the Antarctic you would pick the Arctic Edition and if you’re in the middle of a concrete jungle you can pick up the Urban Camo edition...or maybe just pick whichever design you like most.