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What you make may well inform your next "real" project
Blog Submitted by dada0312 on 02/19/2016 at 8:23 PM Report Blog

 You know what you have to do, but making it happen is always just out of your reach. In QWOP, for example, you move Runescape Gold your avatar's thighs and calves separately. The input method makes it hard to succeed, but due to the amusing physical animation, failure is entertaining and almost a reward in itself.Frog FractionsFrog Fractions has only just come out as of this writing, but is already making waves for its irreverent mash up of genres. This Runescape game begins as an homage to the edutainment Runescape games of the 1990s, but winds up referencing scrolling shooters, text adventures, typing tutors, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, and more, as every new screen seamlessly shifts genres.In a way it's like a long form mini Runescape game compilation the theme and drive is always the same, but the input method and general design is constantly shifting underneath you.QuikdingLast but not least is my favorite developer of Runescape game oddities: Quikding formerly Quimdung. This mysterious collective of weirdos uses amateurish MS Paint sprites and backgrounds amid bizarre themes to a gloriously surreal effect.Bonkey Trek has you travel along a perilous road by smacking your bonkey not a typo on the back of the head and feeding it so it doesn't die of starvation, all while answering curious questions along the way again in order to not die. In Cave Rescue, you have to save 100 residents of a town who have been stuck in caves of various sorts, and take them to the government health center. Alternate input methods abound, bizarre stories leave you constantly questioning what you're doing, and glitches somehow don't feel out of place.Outside the boxWhile the teachings of these oddities may not easily filter up into the world of monetized Runescape game development, they are certainly brain food for the designer, the businessperson, the musician, and the artist. There is so much more that Runescape games can do, and it seems that right now we're only investigating what they've already done.These Runescape games, and countless others like them, push just a little further than what we're used to, and there is definitely something to take away from them, regardless of what discipline we work in or how big our teams are. So why not try out some different ideas of your own in a prototype or a Cheap MU diamonds game jam? What you make may well inform your next "real" project. You can subscribe to the print or digital edition of Runescape game Developer magazine at its subscription page, or download the recently enhanced Runescape game Developer iOS app to subscribe or buy individual issues from your iOS device with Android support coming soon.
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