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Regular Show creator discusses his role on the game adaptation, wants to do a sequel
Coming from a Polygon interview with Regular Show creator, J.G. Quintel...
"And for the first time, I got to kind of look through and talk about all of my favorite things from old games to try and put into the Regular Show game and stuff that would work with the characters and it was fun to work with them and realize that some ideas are too much. I'll be like, 'Well, we can't do that, but how about we do this? And how many levels can we put in? How they are going to look?' It was neat.
I got to look at level maps where they would be just all laid out, printed out on paper and talk about kind of stuff we can fit in: What type of enemies would there be? What do those enemies do? How do they attack you? How do you kill them? How many hits? and just working out all of those mechanics — are there continues? Where are the save points? — it was really neat to see that for every game, someone has to decide what all of those things are going to be.
Then I kind of figured out was there a way where I could kind of combine all of those aspects, so you could hop in between all of those different types of gaming experiences to work your way through the levels. It was fun to make it, but you know, story-wise it was very, 'Oh they got sucked into a video game and they have to play their way out.' And to see them sucked into the video game, into all types of games rolled together into one, it was a little challenge to see how it works.
I wanted to make a two-player cooperative game because those games you can play and work together to beat the game, but it was a lot harder to program something like that, it was just out the scope for the first game. So I'm really hoping we'll get to make another one because I'll love to do something for the console, so it will have the graphics power to do whatever we could think of. It will be awesome to take 2D and 3D elements and mix them altogether and try to make something really cool."
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"And for the first time, I got to kind of look through and talk about all of my favorite things from old games to try and put into the Regular Show game and stuff that would work with the characters and it was fun to work with them and realize that some ideas are too much. I'll be like, 'Well, we can't do that, but how about we do this? And how many levels can we put in? How they are going to look?' It was neat.
I got to look at level maps where they would be just all laid out, printed out on paper and talk about kind of stuff we can fit in: What type of enemies would there be? What do those enemies do? How do they attack you? How do you kill them? How many hits? and just working out all of those mechanics — are there continues? Where are the save points? — it was really neat to see that for every game, someone has to decide what all of those things are going to be.
Then I kind of figured out was there a way where I could kind of combine all of those aspects, so you could hop in between all of those different types of gaming experiences to work your way through the levels. It was fun to make it, but you know, story-wise it was very, 'Oh they got sucked into a video game and they have to play their way out.' And to see them sucked into the video game, into all types of games rolled together into one, it was a little challenge to see how it works.
I wanted to make a two-player cooperative game because those games you can play and work together to beat the game, but it was a lot harder to program something like that, it was just out the scope for the first game. So I'm really hoping we'll get to make another one because I'll love to do something for the console, so it will have the graphics power to do whatever we could think of. It will be awesome to take 2D and 3D elements and mix them altogether and try to make something really cool."
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