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Admiral ![]() Joined: 03 March 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
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CHALLENGE: Baby Yoda Stories"Star Wars: Yoda Stories" is a game released on PC in 1997. It was a simple but lovely desktop game offering short playthroughs of random missions given to Luke by Master Yoda during the Dagobah training. It included visiting various planets of ice, forest and desert biomes, and meeting many OT characters, fighting enemies like stormtroopers and solving puzzles. 2) Top down perspective. 3) Any Star Wars character as protagonist. 4) At least one tile featuring Star Wars character NPC, enemy, animal, monster, droid, wehicle, item, or piece of environment, or any recognisable thing. 6) Dialogue boxes are allowed.
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dodingo
Seaman ![]() Joined: 11 July 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8 |
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I hate to be pedantic on my very first post, but I think that's called 3/4 perspective.
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gawrone
Rear Admiral ![]() ![]() Joined: 20 June 2025 Online Status: Offline Posts: 510 |
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Thank you for your comment, but if one would like to be truly pedantic, this is neither ;) In actual 3/4 view, top and front of the objects are experiencing a specific foreshortening, while in Yoda Stories most of flat squares remain squares, so it resembles more something like military projection. But the game is not consistent about it at all, and some objects have their tops foreshortened while others do not, when it is convenient for pixel art ease, for fitting the tile or for readability. I noticed that in game dev context top-down and 3/4 are often used interchangeably or 3/4 as a specific example of many different dop-down views. Top down can be used as a vague term for any game we see from the above. But if we would want to use it precisely, how should we? Only to something like Binding of Isaac? Or only like here on the bottom right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_projection#/media/File:Graphical_projection_comparison.png (which actually also looks similar to YS). |
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dodingo
Seaman ![]() Joined: 11 July 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8 |
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That's actually a good point; it's been a while and I'd forgotten how Yoda Stories handles both ;)
To be honest, I've almost always seen this perspective referred to as 3/4 or bird's eye view (though the latter seems to have fallen out of favor). Whereas top down, I'd sooner associate it with something like Team17's Alien Breed. Edit: I'll be pedantic against myself though, by pointing out that wasn't my actual first post on the forums; I'd forgotten I had posted before ![]() |
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