Sixty Hertz

Platinum’s Bayonetta blog has been a treasure trove of behind the scenes info. The latest entry features the Enemy Animator/Planner explaining some basic fundamentals of enemy design. Also the Enemy Character Designer has an entry that gives a little insight in to an enemy armor-like system. Keep it up Platinum!

Technical Japanese article on the Hedgehog engine, surprising a lot of it’s in english… click

As iterative processes often go, Okami’s development went through a couple of stages before it became the technical and artistic masterpiece that we know today. By luck of the draw (or this may be officially leaked by Capcom) a video of the older version (or proposed older version) has surfaced that sports a visually more realistic look than the final product.

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As always, thanks to beyond3d.com! HOORAY! 

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showpost.php?p=919807&postcount=116

The fine folks over at www.beyond3d.com have translated the watch impress VF5 tech article featured on this site here a while back. Head over to the thread and get some learning.

 

Watch Impress has posted what looks to be a very extensive behind the scenes look at the technical wizardry of VF5, unfotunately it’s in Japanese. If anyone would like to translate it (HINT!!) would be greatly appreciated!

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20061025/3dvf5.htm

Very insightful interview with a Gaijin developer in Japan.

 

Unfortunately it is mostly written in Jp, but there are some slides from GDC in english and a couple of .zip files that I can’t seem to open. Tri-ace is known for what (i think) is one of the most technically advanced games on the PS2 market: Radiata Stories… as well as Star Ocean series and the Valkyrie series… featured in this article is a breakdown of the tricks used in Valkyrie Profile Silmeria (PS2)…

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20060911/vp2.htm

Movies of VPS

http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?fs=1&id=2785

Thanks to Insert Credit for bringing it to our attention (a recommended site) and Metalgearsolid.org

for translating the design document from the playstation2 “game”: Metal Gear Solid 2: The Document.

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http://www.metalgearsolid.org/show_downloads.php?id=635

A great read for anyone interested in how games are created and planned.

Not quite “Beta Levels” as the video suggest but more of what we would call Test Levels are exposed in this video. Anyone interested in how games are made may want to take a look at it. These Test Levels are where the developers can isolate entities to test them quickly and tune them accordingly with out the complexities of a full fledge level.

http://www.destructoid.com/beta-maps-in-zelda-lost-worlds-in-wink-waker-wind-waker-cheat-codes-unlock-maps.htm