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Classic Game Postmortem - Another World

Eric Chahi's GDC 2011 postmortem of Another World (Out of This World), describing how he built the game. He shows his polygon art approach, rotoscoping and animation tools.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it whenever Another World comes up, as one of the better GDC talks by the game's creator.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
GDC Festival of Gaming
Topic
game development postmortem
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
4
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2020–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Another World's original author Eric Chahi gave a great GDC "Classic Game Postmortem" talk about creating the game: [VIDEO]

    newnewpdro on Hacker News · 2020-01
    In The Polygons of Another World

  • Here's Eric Chahi explaining his decision to use polygons - he mistakenly thought that the Amiga version of Dragon's Lair used them! [VIDEO] Very cool video, wherein Chahi demonstrates his rotoscoping system, where he could use the Amiga's genlock to trace live video in his …

    JohnBooty on Hacker News · 2020-01
    In The Polygons of Another World: Amiga 500

  • Also check out Fabian Sanglard's articles [0] (there's a lot more on his article listings) about Another World if you haven't yet, also the author's GDC talk [1]. [0] [LINK] [1] [VIDEO]

    slmjkdbtl on Hacker News · 2021-06
    In Another World: Genesis

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