19.1. Commercial games
Once you start working on writing even a simple computer game, you get a new appreciation for what goes into commercial arcade games. Even the crudest, oldest games can have an incredible playability factor. It’s not about animated texture-mapped three-dimensional characters, it’s about game design. While your game is in the early design stages, spend some time playing a similar arcade game – and look at some arcade games again when you do your final tweaks.
It’s not necessarily convenient to go out to a game arcade, and there aren’t all that many of them left anymore, but many classic arcade games can be played at home.
Emulators
An emulator is a shareware software package that allows your computer to emulate old arcade ...
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