Month: May 2022

While strategy games are more concerned with long-term planning, tactical games are more concerned with smaller commitments. The team battles of the X-Com series are a clear example of a tactical game. Long-term preparation is needed, but not on a large scale.

Tactical games are usually shorter and focus on more personal situations. As a result, they are more likely to focus on controlling small groups rather than empires or economies.

Games of Grand Strategy

Tactics are the polar opposite of the big strategy games. They focus on large-scale plans and intrigues for the management of the empire. The player rarely gains direct power over his citizens or even over their economies, but rather serves as the nation’s leading spirit.

The Paradox Interactive or Starborne series of games are the best examples of these games. Victoria II from Paradox takes the genre to a new level, allowing the player to lose almost all direct control over their economy if certain political parties gain power.

How have strategy games changed over time?

Initially, the strategy games were turn-based, with two teams facing each other. This format has proven to be durable and is used in many of today’s most popular strategy games, such as chess. These games can last from a few minutes to a few hours, with the duration of the game increasing with increasing level of difficulty.

In general, the games became more complex over time as they tried to better represent the realities of command. Thoughts from that time influenced many games, with Karl von Klauswitz being one of the most influential.

Although Kriegsspiel still pitted two players against each other, it was created to accurately simulate the tension of the command facing a general in the field. As a result, structures were introduced as the main fog of the war, which were later developed by the board game Stratego and perfected by video games such as Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm.

On the other hand, strategy games become more complex over time. Many players faced each other in some board games, such as Diplomacy and Danger. The addition of multiple enemies to the strategy game genre introduced a new level of difficulty and unpredictability. It also allows for more “social” games, including alliances and fraud. Diplomacy, in particular, is experimenting with the concept of an unequal distribution of power between participants. As a result of being squeezed between more powerful rivals, countries such as Austria and Italy are forced to take violent and unpredictable moves.

The tremendous creativity that came before computers allowed us to create strategy simulations is truly astounding to the enthusiast of modern strategy games. Kriegsspiel, Chess, Danger and other games offered complex, if limited, representations of command stress. Video games, on the other hand, allow game designers to make increasingly complex and nuanced decisions.

Within hours or days, it became possible to recreate entire battlefields and periods of time. This also helped the player see how their choices are more clearly reflected in the game thanks to the improved graphics. Most importantly, it paved the way for the development of the real-time strategy genre, which added an extra layer of tension to the game.

Using computer technology to construct a realistic world is known as virtual reality (VR). Unlike conventional user interfaces, virtual reality immerses users in the experience. Users are absorbed and able to connect to 3D environments instead of looking at the screen in front of them. The machine transforms itself into a guardian of this artificial environment by simulating as many senses as possible, including sight, hearing, touch, and even smell. Almost real VR experiences are limited only by the availability of content and cheap computing resources.

What is the difference between VR and AR?

The terms “virtual reality” and “augmented reality” refer to the same thing. Augmented reality can be considered a one-legged virtual reality in the real world: virtual reality provides an artificial universe for exploration, while augmented reality simulates artificial objects in the real world.

The computer determines the location and orientation of the camera in augmented reality using sensors and algorithms. AR technology then covers computer-generated images via a user’s view of the real world, displaying 3D graphics as they would look from a camera perspective.

Similar sensors and math are used by the computer in virtual reality. Instead of placing the actual camera in a physical environment, the location of the user’s eyes is placed in a virtual environment. The graphics respond to the movement of the user’s head. VR technology creates a compelling, impressive environment for the user instead of merging virtual objects and a real scene.

Virtual reality (VR) is a technology that allows you days

The easiest way to recognize a virtual reality (HMD) feature is. Humans are a visual species, and display technology that separates interactive virtual reality systems from conventional user interfaces is often the most significant difference. CAVE automatic virtual worlds, for example, actively project virtual content onto room-sized screens. Market and industrial wearables are the wild west, although they are fun for people in colleges and large laboratories.

The future of wearables is opening up, but it is still uncertain, thanks to a host of new hardware and software choices. HTC Vive Pro Eye, Oculus Quest and Playstation VR are in the lead, but Google, Apple, Samsung, Lenovo and others may surprise the industry with new levels of immersion and usability. Whoever wins, the ease of purchasing a helmet-sized unit that can be used in the living room, workplace, or factory floor has pushed HMDs to the forefront of virtual reality technology.

The role of sound in virtual reality

Virtual reality applications that are compelling need more than just graphics. Man’s sense of space is based on both hearing and sight. In reality, people respond faster to audio signals than to visual ones. Accurate ambient sounds and spatial characteristics are needed to create fully immersive virtual reality experiences. They give the virtual environment a strong sense of presence. Put on your headphones and play around with this audio infographic from The Verge to get a feel for the binaural audio information that enters the virtual reality experience.

Although audio-visual knowledge is easiest to recreate in virtual reality, active research and development of other senses is still ongoing. Users will feel as if they are walking through a simulation instead of sitting in a chair or on a sofa thanks to tactile inputs such as omnidirectional treadmills. From basic rotary engines to futuristic ultrasound technology, haptic technology, also known as kinesthetic or touch feedback technology, has evolved. With visual VR experiences, it is now possible to hear and feel real-life sensations.

Continuing our series of “fighting game treasures”, we offer Primal Rage, a game in which you fight gigantic creatures that emerge from their slumber on Earth after civilization is destroyed by a meteorite(?).

Game system

• The game was a traditional 2D fighter, and although it had a standard joystick system for movement and four buttons for attacks, it featured several unusual features, such as: Notable movements in conventional games are performed by joystick movements culminating in the push of a button. Not in this game: you had to press two or more buttons and then perform the sequence with the joystick while holding them down.
• The game included a rudimentary anti-infinity mechanism: you couldn’t use the same special move twice in a combo. When you repeated the special action, it would not connect, and a cheese sign would appear on the screen (cheese = cheat).
• Stage Hazards are present in certain games, such as Eternal Champions and Injustice (meaning there are items on stage that can harm you). This game, um. It featured people you could eat for a living.
• The chip damage was there, but you couldn’t die from it; you had to take a clean hit.
• There were deaths throughout the game. Which is my favourite? The one of chaos.

Characters

• You had a total of seven characters to choose from:
• Sauron: A kind of T-Rex with a mouth that shoots waves of energy; the “Ryu” of the game. He also has a hook move.
• Diablo is a clone of Sauron, except that Sauron is a T-Rex that uses its jaws to unleash several fire blows.
• Blizzard: A colossal gorilla that specializes in ice attacks and fires a missile that freezes you. He has some fantastic combinations, which made him my particular favourite.
• Chaos is a clone of Blizzard, except this gorilla belches, urinates, and farts. Really.
• Vertigo: I’m not sure what kind of animal this is supposed to be, but it was the “zoned” figure of Dhalsim. He can even teleport.
• Amazon: It looks like a Triceratops and has one of the best attacks in the game: The Iron Maiden. Like an iron maiden, the insect rises into the air and falls with the spikes on its shell.
• Talon is a “small, weak and fast” character. I hated having to fight him.

Was he a good person?

It was definitely a lot of fun. The game wasn’t particularly polished; at times, the animations seemed lacking in smoothness or the collision detection algorithm (which decides when a hit lands and when it doesn’t) was “strange”, but it was still enjoyable. The combinations were fantastic and, by the way, not accessible at all.