Santa Monica Studio’s Eric Williams, who’s the director behind the newly launched and critically acclaimed God of Battle: Ragnarok, has spoken to IGN concerning the Nintendo Leisure System video games which have influenced a few of his design determination within the video games he’s been concerned in. Mr. Williams says that he’s an engineer at coronary heart with a math, science, and design background. So it isn’t stunning to see among the recreation he has chosen within the record and the way they might have influenced his design choices. Williams additionally informed the positioning that his first video video games console was the Atari 2600 which led him to wish to turn out to be a online game developer when he was a toddler.
The 5 NES video games which influenced him:
The Legend of Zelda
Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest
Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!
Baseball Stars
River Metropolis Ransom
First video games console:
“The Atari 2600 was the console that made me wish to be a recreation designer. How 9-year-old me even knew (that) ‘recreation designer’ was even a factor is past me.”
“Once I was in 4th grade we needed to write a guide about all of the issues we would wish to be in the future, and it required us to discover 10 completely different paths,” he says. “My last end result was fighter pilot, largely as a consequence of me seeing Prime Gun. However the wild half was the runner-up entry (was) “recreation designer”.
“But all these years later, right here I’m sitting at Santa Monica Studios reflecting on the desires of a child from the Midwest whereas the world is taking part in our recreation.”
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