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Gregg Mayles
Gregg Mayles (born 29 April 1971) is a British video game designer currently working for video game company Rare as creative director. He is one of the longest-serving members of the company, having worked there since 1989. Career Mayles began his career as a designer of the '' Battletoads'' series and the '' Donkey Kong Country'' series, and was one of the creators of the characters Diddy Kong and King K. Rool. After his work on ''DKC'', he came up with an idea about an action-adventure game influenced by his recent work on the series. The project was greenlit for release first on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and then on the Nintendo 64. Codenamed '' Project Dream'', the game was to be about a boy who went on a magical adventure to a pirate island. The concept was scrapped, and the hero was changed to a bear based on one from '' Diddy Kong Racing'' with a backpack, with the latter inspired by Mayles' trip to Japan. This became the critically acclaimed ''Banjo- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Game Design
Video game design is the process of designing the rules and content of video games in the Video game development#Pre-production, pre-production stage and designing the gameplay, environment, storyline and characters in the Video game development#Production, production stage. Some common video game design subdisciplines are world design, level design, system design, content design, and user interface design. Within the video game industry, video game design is usually just referred to as "game design", which is a more general term elsewhere. The video game designer is like the director of a film; the designer is the visionary of the game and controls the artistic and technical elements of the game in fulfillment of their vision. However, with complex games, such as Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, MMORPGs or a big budget action or sports title, designers may number in the dozens. In these cases, there are generally one or two principal designers and multiple junior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Fox Adventures
''Star Fox Adventures'' is a 2002 action-adventure game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo. It began as essentially two separate projects that were in development in conjunction with each other: A proposed action adventure sequel to ''Star Fox 64'' that began development within Nintendo EAD at Kyoto, and ''Dinosaur Planet'', an original property created by Rare that was in development since 1997. Nintendo producer Shigeru Miyamoto convinced Rare to merge the two projects, and also shift development forward one hardware generation to the GameCube, leaving the game’s initial planned release on the Nintendo 64 cancelled. The game was released on September 23, 2002 as Rare's only GameCube game and as the final game that Rare developed for a Nintendo home console before being acquired by Microsoft the day after ''Star Fox Adventures'' was released in the United States. The game's story takes place eight years after the events of ''Star Fox 64''. Players take control of Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euro
The euro (currency symbol, symbol: euro sign, €; ISO 4217, currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the Member state of the European Union, member states of the European Union. This group of states is officially known as the euro area or, more commonly, the eurozone. The euro is divided into 100 1 euro cent coin, euro cents. The currency is also used officially by the institutions of the European Union, by International status and usage of the euro, four European microstates that are not EU members, the British Overseas Territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, as well as unilaterally by Montenegro and Kosovo. Outside Europe, a number of special territories of EU members also use the euro as their currency. The euro is used by 350 million people in Europe and additionally, over 200 million people worldwide use currencies pegged to the euro. It is the second-largest reserve currency as well as the second-most traded currency in the world after the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Of Thieves
''Sea of Thieves'' is a 2018 action-adventure game developed by Rare and published by Xbox Game Studios. The player assumes the role of a pirate who completes voyages from different trading companies. The multiplayer game sees players explore an open world via a pirate ship from a first-person perspective. Players may encounter each other during their adventures, sometimes forming alliances, and sometimes going head-to-head. The concept of ''Sea of Thieves'' was conceived in 2014. Rare was inspired by players of PC games such as '' Eve Online'' (2003), '' DayZ'' (2018), and ''Rust'' (2018), who used the game tools to create their own stories. Rare explored different settings, such as vampires and dinosaurs, before settling on a pirate theme inspired by the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' films and ''The Goonies'' (1985). The game features a progression system that only unlocks cosmetic items as the development team wanted to encourage both casual and experienced players to play t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
