Atari Game Design - PAX East Online 2021
Channel: Rym DeCoster
Date: 2021-07-20

Presented at PAX East Online 2021! Also known as Camp PAX!

Game design is a wide subject. The best approach to mastering it is to focus on the fundamentals, and what better place to do that than with Atari 2600 games?  Join us for a deep game design analysis of classic competitive Atari games like Outlaw, and how their core concepts extend to modern games. When you can literally count the pixels with your eyes, and the code will fit in your calculator, the core principles of good (and bad) design become starkly apparent.

This talk focuses on single-player games, specifically covering, on the Atari 2600:
Spiderman
Dug Dug
Berzerk
Pitfall
Pitfall II
Rampage

We have covered this topic before, focusing on multiplayer games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obglp35I1M8