Analysis of Movement in Video Games
When we enter the tutorial of the game. One of the first things we are being taught is how to navigate the levels. Is it by using the mouse? The keyboard keys? Or the analog sticks on the controller?
Such a vital pillar of game design has gone under drastic changes over the different eras of gaming. Present in most games under some form, its objective is to assist the player in its goal to finish the game and never be a nuisance on the way. From a simple left to right movement, to a proper 2D movement scheme, to the archaic 3D movements of 90s and now to the modern techniques and ideas where only the lack of creativity holds it back.
This is what we will cover in this video. Movement in Video Games.
00:00 Intro
00:42 How does movement work?
02:06 Bit-era movement
08:46 Growing Pains of 3D movement
14:40 Modern times, modern movement