Re: Side Scrollers and 3D..... Stay in your territories, please.

[Bob Pendleton <bobp@pendleton.com>]

Funny thing about 3D games... they make a lot of people sick. That's
right a lot of people get physically ill when they try to play 3D games.
The DOD has done a lot of research on the subject because the same thing
happens in flight simulators. Pilots who can handle a real dog fight
puke in their helmets in simulators. This means that the consentration
on 3D games is actualy alienating a lot of potential customers. On the
other hand 3D games have been big sellers since Wolfenstein 3D. 

I think it has become a test of programming merit to program a 3D
engine. As a result a lot of games that don't need to be 3D are written
as 3D games. A lot of programmers are spending time writing their own 3D
systems when the game would be just as much fun done in 2D.

				Bob P.
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