ShackNews have put up an interview with FlashBang, the creators of JetPack Brontosaurus and Off-Road Velociraptor Safari. More interviews should include these questions:
Shack: Favorite dinosaur?
Flashbang: Ravens. We take a cladistic standpoint and demand our taxa be monophyletic, so “dinosaurs” must include Aves, the modern birds.
Shack: Favorite dinosaur video game?
Flashbang: Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is hands down the best dinosaur related game ever created. Not even kidding.
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Hehe, great interview. Particularly like the discussion on the metaphors running through Raptor Safari.
I actually have Genesis installed on my computer. It was an awesome game, and underrated, I think. Sore, the core elements were pretty simple, but the idea (and the execution) was sound, and it has a pretty nice atmosphere to it.
Operation Genesis was really fun and a noble effort, but ultimately not the heavenly build-your-own-Jurassic-Park game I’d always been (and still am) waiting for.
I picked Genesis up on budget about a year ago. It’s still a lot of fun.
Genesis was great. The ability to feed guests to the exhibits is one I feel many museum curators secretly wish for. Plus: photo safari! Take *that*, Beyond Good And Evil.
And besides, everyone knows that the Velociraptor is from the Cretaceous period and Apatosaurus is from the Jurassic. The notion that one serves the other implies a social link and management infrastructure that would have spanned 70 million years, which is economically asinine.
Great interview.
I’d just like to point out – THESE games show us how great a browser-based game can be, and help set the bar for graphics quality.
If Adobe ever get round to integrating some kind of OpenGL/better 3D hardware access element into Flash then it’s going to rock game development to it’s foundations.