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Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] Sparrow_1029@programming.dev 32 points 2 weeks ago

It was pseudo-3D, I remember reading an article about how they made the sprites, but can't find that... wikipedia has

Donkey Kong Country was one of the first games for a mainstream home video game console to use pre-rendered 3D graphics

and they used SGI workstations to create the models and animations before compressing/converting them to 2D sprites

Rare invested their NES profit in Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) Challenge workstations with Alias rendering software to render 3D models. It was a significant risk, as each workstation cost £80,000.

(sharing bc I thought that's a crazy amount of money for 1992)

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Meanwhile, Nintendo positioned this method to compete with Aladdin, which simply hired Walt Disney animators to do the sprites.

[-] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It used isometric 3D since the SNES lacked any 3D capability.

It was made by the same people that did those isometric games on 8 bit computers, Ashby Computer Graphics, aka Ultimate, which changed their name to Rare.

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