Variations on a maze
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== Context: Computer Graphics and Games == | == Context: Computer Graphics and Games == | ||
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| + | [[Image:Game-Maze_Craze-Atari2600-(1978).png|thumb|200px]] | ||
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| + | [[Image:Game-Pac-Man-arcade-(1980).png|thumb|200px]] | ||
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| + | [[Image:Game-Pac-Man-Atari2600-(1982).gif|thumb|200px]] | ||
[[Image:Atari2600-pacman.gif|thumb|200px]] | [[Image:Atari2600-pacman.gif|thumb|200px]] | ||
| − | [[Image:Atari2600-maze_craze.png|thumb|200px]] | + | [[Image:Game-Ant_Attack-ZX_Spectrum-(1983).gif|thumb|200px]] |
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The representation of mazes in computer graphics was already a staple during the period that finds the ''10 Print'' BASIC one-liner appearing in C64 manuals and journals -- in fact, the use of computers to represent mazes conceptually was common before computer graphics. | The representation of mazes in computer graphics was already a staple during the period that finds the ''10 Print'' BASIC one-liner appearing in C64 manuals and journals -- in fact, the use of computers to represent mazes conceptually was common before computer graphics. | ||
| − | (Sidebar / aside on thumbnail sketch of IF and box diagram mazes, relationship to home computing and dominance of early PC video game industry?) | + | (Sidebar? Summary IF and the tradition of box diagram maps, the importance of mazes in Adventure / Zork / Acheton, and the contextual relationship to home computing and dominance of early PC video game industry) |
In graphical games, | In graphical games, | ||
| − | One common feature of the many different maze games from the period is orientation: all both rectilinear and aligned to the Cartesian axes. Different examples have their own aesthetics -- Pac Man partitions the screen space into an open field a indirect routes, Maze Craze creates a traditional full-screen overview with a single solution, while Adventure produces a claustrophobic view in which only part of the impossibly wrapping maze topology is visible at any time -- usually nearby but inaccessible paths. What all have in common is that they are constructed of horizontal/vertical walls that are orthogonal to the edges of the screen and the scan line of the display. | + | One common feature of the many different maze games from the period is orientation: all were rectilinear and aligned to the Cartesian axes. Different examples have their own aesthetics -- Pac Man partitions the screen space into an open field of indirect routes, Maze Craze creates a traditional full-screen overview with a single solution, while Adventure produces a claustrophobic view in which only part of the impossibly wrapping maze topology is visible at any time -- usually nearby but inaccessible paths. What all have in common is that they are constructed of horizontal/vertical walls that are orthogonal to the edges of the screen and the scan line of the display. |
(presence of the diagonal line at all -- isometric projection itself not unheard of, but far from the norm -- Marble Madness not until 1984) | (presence of the diagonal line at all -- isometric projection itself not unheard of, but far from the norm -- Marble Madness not until 1984) | ||
