Designing For | Jak and Daxter's Precursor Basin -- Designing For Inefficacy @DesigningFor | Uploaded May 2018 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Designing For is a series which looks at a level in gaming, and analyzes a theme central to that level's design. In this episode, we look at the Precursor Basin in Jak and Daxter, and how ineffective it is at providing the player with any kind of agency
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Twitter: twitter.com/Designing4Games
Discord: discord.gg/bAwJkXP
Writing/Voiceover/Script Editing/Audio Editing/Game Footage: Tommy Eyler/Pyrrhickong/The Dryest Bones (youtube.com/user/pyrrhickong)
Script Editing/Additional Game Footage/Image Editing/Video Editing: Zack Frisbee/Goombachi
Intro Graphic and Watermark By: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFlA...
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Also check out our video on a much better designed vehicle segment by Naughty Dog, Crash Team Racing's Papu's Pyramid: youtube.com/watch?v=TLJLYA5LMlM
Or our episode on Joke's End in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, another level that discourages the player in every aspect of its very design: youtube.com/watch?v=pngcDTStwBc
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Jak and Daxter Collection is © Sony Computer Entertainment, Naughty Dog, LLC, and Mass Media Games, Inc.
Donkey Kong 64 is © Nintendo Co., Ltd. and Rare.
Conker's Bad Fur Day, Banjo-Kazooie, and Banjo-Tooie are © Rare and Microsoft Corporation.
Super Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy 2, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and the character "Ness" are © Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Cuphead is © Studio MDHR.
Orwell is © Osmotic Studios.
Everything is © David OReilly and Double Fine Productions.
I don't know who owns the rights to the Donkey Kong Country TV series. If you do, tell me.
Happy Gilmore is © Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, Robert Simonds Productions, and Universal Pictures.
Batman: The Animated Series is © Warner Bros. Television, based on properties owned by DC Comics.
Nacho Libre is © Nickelodeon Movies, Black & White, HH Films, and Paramount Pictures.
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Footage/Images Used:
Twilight Princess: youtube.com/watch?v=QIYieGPd7LQ
Super Mario Galaxy 2: youtube.com/watch?v=Y0QH1u_vURc
Bob-omb Battlefield: colorslive.com/details/541228
King Dice: meltingdragon.deviantart.com/art/King-Dice-Collab-728169094
Time Vampire: cheekymonkeymedia.ca/blog/improve-productivity-recognizing-time-vampires
Designing For is a series which looks at a level in gaming, and analyzes a theme central to that level's design. In this episode, we look at the Precursor Basin in Jak and Daxter, and how ineffective it is at providing the player with any kind of agency
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Twitter: twitter.com/Designing4Games
Discord: discord.gg/bAwJkXP
Writing/Voiceover/Script Editing/Audio Editing/Game Footage: Tommy Eyler/Pyrrhickong/The Dryest Bones (youtube.com/user/pyrrhickong)
Script Editing/Additional Game Footage/Image Editing/Video Editing: Zack Frisbee/Goombachi
Intro Graphic and Watermark By: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFlA...
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Also check out our video on a much better designed vehicle segment by Naughty Dog, Crash Team Racing's Papu's Pyramid: youtube.com/watch?v=TLJLYA5LMlM
Or our episode on Joke's End in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, another level that discourages the player in every aspect of its very design: youtube.com/watch?v=pngcDTStwBc
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Jak and Daxter Collection is © Sony Computer Entertainment, Naughty Dog, LLC, and Mass Media Games, Inc.
Donkey Kong 64 is © Nintendo Co., Ltd. and Rare.
Conker's Bad Fur Day, Banjo-Kazooie, and Banjo-Tooie are © Rare and Microsoft Corporation.
Super Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy 2, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and the character "Ness" are © Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Cuphead is © Studio MDHR.
Orwell is © Osmotic Studios.
Everything is © David OReilly and Double Fine Productions.
I don't know who owns the rights to the Donkey Kong Country TV series. If you do, tell me.
Happy Gilmore is © Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, Robert Simonds Productions, and Universal Pictures.
Batman: The Animated Series is © Warner Bros. Television, based on properties owned by DC Comics.
Nacho Libre is © Nickelodeon Movies, Black & White, HH Films, and Paramount Pictures.
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Footage/Images Used:
Twilight Princess: youtube.com/watch?v=QIYieGPd7LQ
Super Mario Galaxy 2: youtube.com/watch?v=Y0QH1u_vURc
Bob-omb Battlefield: colorslive.com/details/541228
King Dice: meltingdragon.deviantart.com/art/King-Dice-Collab-728169094
Time Vampire: cheekymonkeymedia.ca/blog/improve-productivity-recognizing-time-vampires
