Re:An Adventure in Pre-Rendered Backgrounds (2019)
by droptablemain on Saturday September 03, 2022 @03:22PM
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Not sure how the author wrote an entire article on pre-rendered backgrounds in gaming without once mentioning Baldur's Gate / Infinity Engine games, of which the developers largely pioneered this with DirectDraw API.
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Re:An Adventure in Pre-Rendered Backgrounds (2019)
by dahart on Saturday September 03, 2022 @04:33PM
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There might be a certain threshold of foreground/background integration in your favorite example, but the games mentioned as examples predate Baldur’s Gate, which kind of answers your question, right? If we’re talking about just the concept of a pre-rendered background, games have done that since the early 70s or earlier.