Now that I've given some information about how the way levels were designed and scripted, time to talk about the Xtra 3D Motion!

What about some internal implementation details?

Time to get our sleeves up and dig into the nitty gritty dirty details about how all that worked together.

Modern games tend to follow a rigorous top-down design approach, where a lead designer comes up with the core elements of the game, and is in charge of validating how these are actually implemented.

At Adeline, the process was a lot more organic, and a lot of things happened just because somebody thought about it, which resulted in games having many easter eggs, weird references, insider jokes, etc...

When the work started on Time Commando, the most common type of CD-ROM drives were 2x models, barely able to load 300 Kilobytes of data per second.

What that mean is that we better had to be smart if we really wanted to use full motion video!

This is now December, and I decided to take a break with the Oriclopedia videos, so this is a small summary of what was published this year.