Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Sports Games
Another huge category of games, sports games, are, you guessed it,
games involving sports of any kind—bowling, wrestling, basketball,
football, racing, snowboarding, etc. Whatever the sport, chances are
pretty good that it's already been adapted to work on the interactive
screen. Keep in mind, the very i rst arcade game with sound,
Pong
, was
basically a sports title! The genre is largely derived from action games
but the most popular and played in this genre generally have a realistic
outlook. You already experienced two well-known sports titles inside
the App, so you've got a pretty good idea already of what happens in
these types of games. Here's a few more examples:
Pole Position
,
NBA 2K
,
WWE Raw
, and
Tiger Woods Golf.
Sceencap from the demonstration video
of the RUMR (Realtime User Music Remix)
system in action in the
SSX
snowboarding
game. The system applies DJ-like ef ects
while doing tricks within the game itself.
Sometimes the audio team gets to
stretch things out a bit. Ted Conley,
the Audio Director for EA Canada,
developed the RUMR (Realtime User
Remix) System for the snowboarding
game
SSX
that allows the user to
dynamically remix any audio (including
tracks of the player's choosing), DJ-style
on the l y while playing the game itself.
He created a system where various
tricks, angles, l ips, and player actions
would result in dif erent audio ef ects
applied to the music soundtrack in
varying amounts.
Sports games can come in all shapes and sizes. Clockwise from top left:
Madden
NFL 13
(EA Sports, 2012);
Topspin 3
(2K Sports, 2008);
Tiger Woods PGA Tour
(EA
Sports, 2006);
WWE RAW Wrestling
(THQ, 2002); Atari's
Pole Position
, MLB
The Show
(Sony Entertainment, 2013).
Going Massive—MUDs and MMORPGs
In the late 1970s, as text-based RPGs were being developed on university
mainframes, the idea of multiple players playing the same game at the
same time wasn't crazy. Eventually this setup developed into the 1978
game
MUD
(Multi-User Dungeon), a multiplayer version of the text-based
game
Zork
. The coming of the Internet and the Web created the next
generation of multi-user games, and although
Neverwinter Nights
was
