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Games by Riccardo Caprari
Une petite Recherche I. A Late Arcade Image source: World of Longplays YouTube channel For most of my early childhood, I was able to experience games only vicariously or in short non-repeatable sessions. At the time, there was just one establishment in my hometown that could be called a shopping mall and there you could …
Wrestling with Torment Disclaimer: major spoilers for the 1999 videogame “Planescape: Torment” ahead. Having recently read the very persuasive negative review of “Planescape: Torment” on The Digital Antiquarian left me wanting to articulate, first and foremost to myself, why I have the unshakable feeling that, despite its shortcomings, PT is one of the few videogames …
0PUZZLE A few thoughts on the 0PLAYER game You can trace the birth of puzzle video games as an extension of paper puzzle games and the line-tracing mechanic in The Witness (which is worth noting was not part of the original core idea of the game) was certainly taken from paper puzzle games. With 0PLAYER, …
Hi, welcome to the last in a series of articles where I discuss technical issues I had to overcome while working on the visuals of my game Syzygy. In this last part, we will tackle various miscellaneous topics that where left out in previous instances: every one of them is structured like a standalone chapter, …
Hi, welcome to the second in a series of articles where I talk about some noteworthy technical problems I encountered during the development of my video game Syzygy. In this part, we are going to address how sprites are rendered and some interesting consequences that arise from the method used. Remember that our initial goal …
Hi, this is the first in a series of articles where I will cover some technical problems and solutions that occurred to me during the development of my game Syzygy. The fact that these problems presented themselves in the first place depends on a long and articulated series of game design decision that will be …