Heropath is a video game and as such takes its influences from video games that I grew up with and left an impression on me. Essentially, Heropath will be a homage to the following 1980s-90s video games:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adventure<\/a> (Atari, 1979) – The first console video game to pay homage to the first text adventure game (Colossal Cave\/Adventure), contain an easter egg, and create a semi-procedural, sandbox game. This game is amazing for what it accomplished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Quest for the Rings<\/a> (Magnavox, 1981) – A stylized action-adventure that combined board game play with video game event resolution. The game component’s artwork is a major source of inspiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Lords of Midnight<\/a> (Beyond, 1984) & Doomdark’s Revenge<\/a> (Beyond, 1985) – These games accomplished so much with so little computer resources (48k RAM). They combined character adventure, military strategy, and narrative design that has never been surpassed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar<\/a> (Origin, 1985) – An innovative CRPG that combined open world exploration, quest puzzles, and was the first to bring self-development to video games where killing an evil overlord was not the way to win the game!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paradroid<\/a> (Hewsons, 1985) – A unique action-puzzle game placing you in the role of a droid that needs to recapture a rogue space ship by allowing you to hack\/possess your robotic opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sid Meier’s Pirates!<\/a> (Micropose, 1987) – An amazing achievement of seamless mini-games threaded together while the player navigates an open and dynamic world set in the 17th century Caribbean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n King’s Bounty<\/a> (New World, 1990) – Deconstructing the CRPG genre by combining heroic advancement with army recruitment and adventuring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dune <\/a>(Cryo, 1992) – This game not only was worthy of its source material, it innovated by combining graphical adventure with real-time strategy. This is one of my favourite video games ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dwarf Fortress<\/a> (Bay 12, 2006-now) – The Bas\u00edlica de la Sagrada Fam\u00edlia of video games. A sprawling ‘Rouge-like’ with a massive simulation focus. While this game is ‘modern’ it is inspired by the 1980s with the developers being fans of Dig Dug<\/a> and Rogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A group of video games that possess what I shall call staged-poly-mechanics<\/strong>, which consist of stages of distinct game mechanics that are narratively tied together. Examples of such games are: Beach Head<\/a>, Beach Head II<\/a>, Raid Over Moscow<\/a>, and Spore<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There are other video games that I am inspired by but fall outside of my ability and resources to consider developing. I am in awe of Sid Meier’s Civilization and other 4X games but are such complex simulations they are beyond me as a beginning solo developer. The games listed above are all far simpler and are doable yet possess depth, elegance, and innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Heropath is a video game and as such takes its influences from video games that I grew up with and left an impression on me. Essentially, Heropath will be a homage to the following 1980s-90s video games: Adventure (Atari, 1979) – The first console video game to pay homage to the first text adventure game … Continue reading “Roots of Heropath, Part 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11,35],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-definitions","tag-roots","tag-standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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