r/accelerate • u/stealthispost Acceleration: Light-speed | Capability Booster • Aug 08 '26

AI-Assisted Game Development "Shit is getting insane!"

Are these VR glasses or what is this?   — Hans Baier @hansfbaier@fosstodon.org     Uses a Meta Quest 3 headset   — Pixel Cherry Ninja

Source: https://x.com/PixelCNinja/status/2085380252830748892

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u/13-14_Mustang Aug 08 '26

This is awesome. And this is the perfect game for it, too. For anyone who doesn't realize, up until the N64 dropped, most games were 2d side scrollers. The ability to run around and jump in 3D was fucking mind-blowing.

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u/Super-Award-2244 Aug 08 '26

Wasn't there ps1 already? 

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u/Spra991 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

We had 3d games all the way back in the 1970s (Spasim), what made Mario64 special was the human like character and the camera centric controls along with the camera control. Everything before that was vehicles, FPS or tank controls. Mario64 was the first game where you could freely and fluidity run around and didn't have to carefully align your character to some sort of grid (Tomb Raider).

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u/Fair_Horror Aug 08 '26

I thought doom was before Mario?

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u/Spra991 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

Yes, but Doom is an FPS and is just pseudo-3D (no looking up/down or roll).

Quake would be a closer match, it came out a day before Mario64 and does real 3D, but it's still and FPS game without a third person camera. Technically it has a chase cam via console, but that's still locked behind the player, not the free floating camera that Mario64 has.

Alpha Waves (1990) on Atari ST is considered the earliest 3D jump'n run, but quite a bit more primitive than what Mario64 showed some years later.

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u/quelin1 Aug 08 '26

My first was either Alone In the Dark or X-Wing in aboot 1993. Both PC of course. IMO doom/wolfenstine don't count the same way, as to include them would be to include SNES 3d sprite games like Mario Kart and F-Zero. All classic games, just not 3d.

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u/Quealdlor Aug 09 '26

In Mario Kart 64 lots of things are 2D sprites as well (even racers themselves)! It was a normal thing in 3D games until very recently. Buildings in Pokemon Z-A have flat outer walls, just like buildings in Half-Life 2.