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Jonathan Blow

On The Metal

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Prince of Persia

I remember the like Prince of Persia when I was a kid was just mind blowing even though the graphics were simple the animation was so amazing. Back then it was a little bit harder because you know less capable computers you had to work harder to get all these pixels on the screen and stuff. So now in a current game you might have a character moving around in a 3D world and so objects are more complicated they have a lot more degrees of freedom. It's a very different thing from having a sprite with some data baked in that you're just flipping pages on right.

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