[ODE] Restricting ODE to 2D

Nate W coding at natew.com
Tue Mar 11 13:30:02 2003


On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, John DeWeese wrote:

> 2D is highly underrated. You can do really cool things with it, and
> interaction techniques for 2D are more accessible and fit better to the
> current sit-in-front-of-flat-screen modality that we currently have for TVs
> and computers. It is STILL fun to play Zelda 3, and Klonoa 2 was basically a
> 2D platformer adorned with 3D graphics.

FWIW, the first incarnation of Juice was done in 2D.  I wasn't able to
find or create decent physics for it though, so it's really really cheesy.
:-)  Proper 2D physics would have made it pretty fun though, and fun for a
much wider audience than the 3D version.

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Nate Waddoups
Redmond WA USA
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