[HN Gopher] The Making Of Grand Theft Auto (1996) [video] ___________________________________________________________________ The Making Of Grand Theft Auto (1996) [video] Author : chha Score : 148 points Date : 2022-05-09 12:53 UTC (10 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.youtube.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com) | corysama wrote: | For more vids like this, check out | https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/ | Pr0ject217 wrote: | Thank you! | MomoXenosaga wrote: | GTA was so cool. Peak 90s edge. Nintendo was for kids PlayStation | was going for the teenagers/young adults. | fgh wrote: | A long time ago, I found a website with a description of how the | 2.5d engine of GTA works. Would anybody here maybe remember where | that was posted and could provide an URL? | rzzzt wrote: | Not quite what you are looking for, but if you like long-form | programming videos, javidx9 constructs a similar game engine in | an hour or so in "Top Down City Based Car Crime Game": | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD6b_hP17WI | rasz wrote: | Grand Theft Auto: The Complete History - SGR | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX0Fk8ZOXXA had a funny analogy | - imagine a sprite fighting game (or just play Street Fighter | 2) with 2D background but perspective corrected floor | https://sf2platinum.wordpress.com/ Its a neat case of pseudo 3D | with constant Z planes like in Doom, no need for division per | pixel to fix perspective means fast. | GlennS wrote: | Still gutted they never made Grand Theft Auto: Weston-super-Mare. | midasuni wrote: | When the 1969 expansion came out it too was rated 18. I was 16, | went into Manchester and bought it. Felt like a rebel. | | Then on the metro back with my child ticket (valid upto the age | of 15) I got stopped. My friend didn't even have a ticket and | he got fined, but they let me off as I at least had a ticket. | | Felt like such a rebel that day. | leakbang wrote: | For those interested: The Design Behind Grand Theft Auto 3 | | https://youtu.be/qUI0moGiNuw | bonoboTP wrote: | It's crazy to see all these interviews from >25 years ago. | Everything is calmer, people are more soft-spoken, they think | before they speak. They come across as some mix of wholesome, | endearingly naive and balanced, genuine etc (it's the tone of | voice, the facial expressions, the body language, everything). | compared to the media frenzy today, including the shouting | grimacing screaming youtubers, the constant crisis mode, everyone | putting on an act etc. | | I'm not saying the world had no problems, I was alive, I know it | wasn't paradise. But the contrast is always noticable whenever I | watch old footage, eg asking people's opinions on the street etc. | Or there was also a video about some friends having fun at | Disneyland and it all seemed much calmer than today. | RGamma wrote: | (In American media, but also elsewhere) It was calmer than | today but it has become pointless to lament the loss of | serenity in an age where attention spans are measured in | days/few weeks and no voices speak above the loudest (I have | tried many times, but got drowned by the social media opinion | tsunami). It crushes the soul and it has spread. | | Heck, it's like those who are sensitive to this phenomenon have | left or got sucked into it (sadly this includes me at times) | and those who remain have no idea what has even happened | (generally speaking). | | Like when we used to say, woah this whole social media thing is | a giant experiment, wonder whether that'll go well. Yeah, | apparently 90% didn't wonder; they just _did_. | | P.S. my earlier comment is an instance of this | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31270985 | bowsamic wrote: | Are you sure it isn't just that they're British? I think a lot | of the intensity came from the US. When I grew up in the UK, we | used to joke about Americans being insane and loud, but now we | are copying them... | Cloudef wrote: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxSdWhkMB_A You may like this | too | corford wrote: | Definitely. It often feels a lot more calmer and thoughtful | e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgMPr0UZObY (came up as a | recommendation after watching the article video) | bonoboTP wrote: | Or this Stallone interview (also YT recommendation) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFlybZL1mWE If a movie star | went into that contemplative mode today, the interviewer | would feel some kind of awkward tension and would immediately | crack a joke or somehow lift up the conversation back to the | surface level. You only get this stuff now on podcasts. | | As for your video, just imagine uttering the words "complex | mathematics" today unironically in an entertainment-related | interview. The interviewer would have to immediately | ironically say something like "oh, you lost me there" or | something like "you're such a wizard, I can't even file my | taxes" or so. Somehow genuineness and any level of | seriousness is seen as kryptonite for the media today. | deepsun wrote: | Sounds similar to ever-increasing sweetness of soda drinks: if | your drink has 3% more sugar than competitor, it just "tastes | better". So the market gradually falls into super-sweet. | dncornholio wrote: | Today, it is important to act you have 1000% more fun than | the person before. Dude, you're just having a few beers with | friends and you act like you just got married. | xdfgh1112 wrote: | A good argument for sugar tax, even if a lot of people | complain about it. | deepsun wrote: | And confidence. Nowadays everyone look super-confident. | neilv wrote: | "Susan Kare explains Macintosh UI ergonomics on the Computer | Chronicles (1984)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_q50tvbQm4 | | She's demonstrating something pretty new and significant to a | lot of people. | | Maybe software _job_ interviews have followed a related arc, to | amped-up performance art rituals and shibboleths, from genuine | meaningful down-to-earth conversation. | jl6 wrote: | Maybe the difference is that in 1996 games were still somewhat | nerd-niche rather than mass media. If you look at mainstream | interviews of the time with, say, pop stars, I think you see | the same kind of hype/glaze/insincerity. The person sinks | beneath the brand. | Jimmy wrote: | I agree. People will be quick to say that that's just your | nostalgia talking, but taken to an extreme, that argument would | entail that culture and patterns of behavior never change, | which is equally implausible. | dilyevsky wrote: | Love the patronizing tone! So 90s | fancyfredbot wrote: | I really enjoyed the patient explanation that no, they play | games in their lunch hour but what they get paid for is | developing games which is what they do the rest of the day. | jamal-kumar wrote: | I cracked up at "Now you might think Darren here has gone | completely mad..." | sgt wrote: | A gurrl working in this place with only boys! Well, how did | YOU end up with this job then? | tombot wrote: | There's a longer documentary released by noclip Dec 2021 which | expands on some of the history | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev7FqNa5rD0 | lostgame wrote: | Thank you! I lamented greatly how short the clip was. When I | saw it was only 6min I almost didn't bother watching it - how | the hell in-depth can a 6 minute video be... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-05-09 23:00 UTC)