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The Future Will Be Hand-Drawrn The newest thing in gaming is actually really old. you do: While battling a malevolent into a fever dream of gameplay over become so distracted by theextraordiis a ludicrous romp through carnival ofa minivan, you will the course of four years. The result behind it-the subtle rotation ofatire the hyperrealistic first-person swing in the wind, the word.Acme sten shooter games that are the normal ridiculous barbershop-striped straw issuing classic blues tunes on vinyl. stickingout ofit, will get hit in the face So how did they do it? When byone of the realistically textureddirt you play a game like Cuphead, the andthe words YOU DIED!'will flash images of "sprites" (characters) across the screen like atitle cardina over a background (which is also SHORTCUTS FOR GAMEMAKERS "In the olden days, like 15 years ago Cuphead jumping, crouching, and the brothers posted online in 2013 running. Of an hourglass dancing generated so much excitement that This will happen to you becauseit of motion. The sprites also refresh Microsoft's Independent Developer the controller. "As you hit, say, playing Cuphead for years. "Even now,the computer knows, okay, every dead octopus for hair squeezing beta contacted them to offer help with the I'Ilfind myself so entranced bysome tenth of a second, change the den the Oops,you died' screen willpop erase the main character Charla, director of Microsoft's I.D. years, there's been more and more technology that enable creators to can use to create your dream game. permints and jellybean soldiers, and The game has been in the news eo beginning with "When will they game to employ the same cel anima every character, then draw frame the 1930s used to make thoetrip every motion. "On average it might s tacked up in a friend's kitchen, you might journalists kept failing disastrously at Cuphead demonstrations, to a nou- veau gamergate about whether video- psychological professional. "There's create 2D games like Cuphead. great jazz tracks. Canadian brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer drew and that takes five or six minutes, I says Chad. “I think there are close to director of North American licens that's one other thing you should ing for King Features, the company know about Cuphead: It's hard. When that owns classic cartoons includ every frame of the game by hand, 60,000 total frames." UNREAL ENGINE This C++-based found Cuphead so exciting that it partnered with the brothers to cre died almost immediately. "Every- one who's played the game has the ndise. (King Features is work, I think it would have scared us away," says Chad. But it didn't, that's what's going to happen. The POPULARMECHANICS.COM 62 63

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