The Making of Karateka - Official Announcement Trailer | ID@Xbox Showcase

[kevin]

The Making of Karateka - Official Announcement Trailer | ID@Xbox Showcase

I was a huge fan of the original Apple II version of Karateka ...

Just like Elite, Karateka  includes concepts that would become common place in video games in later decades that were virtually completely foreign to audiences in the 1980's...   

Like most things I loved at the time;  I started to build my over version on the C64 back in the day.   Spending hours drawing a character on graphic paper than transferring it to the computer literally bit bu bit..  I got about as far as walk animation and the rest was a bridge too far my young coding mind...  but the game still impresses me today;  I suspect that comes from my understanding of the limitations that design to exists within...   but ultimately it's just a great classic game !

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it really stuck out as a precursor of
everything that games would be
carotica Veronica

movie like experience I'd ever had in a
video game
love it it's so good
I didn't know who Jordan mcner was but I
wanted to be like Jordan mechner I was
in college we came home on vacation with
this new project that was starting
and we were taking karate lessons
the characters were not little sets of
pixels they in fact were fully formed
individuals they had personalities
rotoscoping is literally tracing each
frame to get a frame of Animation the
aesthetic and the motion was really
unusual for the time I knew how
important music was to tell a story but
I wasn't a musician so I turned to my
dad I said well why not have a series of
Beats that are tuned to notes

it understood that visuals mattered that
full motion mattered that human beings
mattered story is in most games
considered a mandatory aspect Jordan
predates all of that
erotica will stand the test of time as
one of the most elegant game experiences
that's ever been done it's amazing
thank you