{"id":470,"date":"2011-01-16T20:18:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T04:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowdawngenesis.com\/devblog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2015-12-17T17:01:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T01:01:51","slug":"i-love-console-games-more-than-pc-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shadowdawngenesis.com\/devblog\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"I love console games more than PC, but…"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Arashi<\/a>
Arashi – larger than life<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The problem with developing a console game on the PC (or coming from PC gaming) is that you become accustomed to the smaller fonts and sharper graphics only to see your vision become a blurry mess on the target console platform.\u00a0 I get frustrated with this because PC games can get away with tiny fonts and enormous amount of text and graphical information in a much more compact space – thus letting more of the gameplay itself visible.\u00a0 Console games almost always have to have large almost kindergarden-level fonts to be fully legible regardless of TV they are played on.\u00a0 It may even subconsciously hurt the “maturity” of a game by succumbing to this design constraint – just think about paperback novels for kids, teens, and adults and notice the type and spacing\u00a0between the three gets smaller as the audience gets older.<\/p>\n

That said, enough of my test audience has pointed out that the font may be a bit too small to read on a TV, and I’m using a 32″ HDTV (which they were playing on while making the comment) so I can’t imagine how illegible it would be to someone on an SDTV.\u00a0 I decided to just suck it up and change the font and increase its size so there would be no question to readability; this is an RPG with a lot of story to tell after all.<\/p>\n

One other thing I am doing, after a lot of consideration, is condensing the statistics.\u00a0 After playing Persona 3<\/em> and Persona 4<\/em> I realized that there is plenty of room for customization and optimization even with a smaller number of attributes to worry about, so I’ve reduced the primary stats from\u00a0seven to three.\u00a0 This keeps the\u00a0three training Disciplines\u00a0concept more in focus, as now each Discipline is directly related to a stat: Body<\/strong> replaces Strength and Vitality, Mind<\/strong> replaces Agility and Intelligence, and Soul<\/strong> replaces Willpower and Leadership.\u00a0 Dexterity never really fit with the game structure anyways so it is now obsolete.\u00a0 There are still 5 secondary statistics, Attack<\/strong>, Defense<\/strong>, Resistence<\/strong>, Serenity<\/strong>, and Luck<\/strong>, all derived from\u00a0a combination of the\u00a0three Disciplines and further enhanced by equipment choices.<\/p>\n

I seem to be getting a lot of requests to put out a demo, and I may do that for the PC soon with the completion of the starting area once I am happy with how Arashi animates and plays.<\/p>\n

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