We kind of wish we had more time to work on Fotonica and implement the ideas our sound designer proposed. Did you foresee the game's soundtrack playing an important role in immersion? The goal now is to make it less unforgiving but still challenging.īitmob: Fotonica's music is an ambient escape into catharsis. NT: Yes, the control scheme was definitely the real problem, especially in relation to the jump timing we like the way Fotonica plays, but we also understand that it's a hardcore arcade game and most people won't spend enough time to 'digest' the jumping. In the end, we left the option to play with reversed controls (named ATOMIC after Adam Atomic, designer of Canabalt), since some people find it too difficult to abandon such a deep-rooted gameplay convention of pushing a button to jump. We felt that you should have been able to stop and decide when to start running. One of the first prototypes after TOUW had a control scheme similar to Canabalt, but we were not satisfied as we felt that running should be an active behavior of the player.

First of all, navigating the menu: We had to come up with a totally different metaphor for navigation that implies holding a button for going forward and releasing for 'changing things.' Also, the gameplay was a challenge to convey as a one button sequence of movements while keeping complexity in the navigation of the levels. Bitmob: Did you encounter any challenges while designing the entire game around a single-button control scheme?

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