It's... The Future Of The HUD Circus
The rather beautifully named High Dynamic Range Lying weblog recently posted an in-depth post named 'Clean and Simple: What’s the future of the Heads-Up Display?', and I thought it was well worth linking to.
The intro? "HUDs have remained unchanged since the days of the Nintendo Entertainment System, but that isn’t to say that some games didn’t boldly attempt to change the way we look at HUDs, and have paved the way for what could be the future of information display in video games. What have we done right in the past? What have been the failures? Where do we go from here? HDRL hopes to answer that, with a touch of optimistic speculation, and a pinch of nostalgic golf clapping."
There are then some fun analyses of conventional or unconventional HUD systems, with a nod to one of the most 'interesting' ones: "Say what you will about the failure of Trespasser, the PC-only First Person Shooter based on the world of Jurassic Park, but the game was rife with unique ideas (albeit poorly executed). Player health was represented by a heart-shaped tattoo on the player`s breast. When players started to lose health, they would look down at themselves. While the mechanic was a step in the right direction, the sad part was that players had to constantly look down to check health, which disrupted gameplay to a large extent." [Semi-via Jiji.]
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Hi
I am Javier, the founder of Trendirama.com, the fastest growing community of amateur writers writing about The Future of everything. We would like to invite you to join us and write an article on the website, perhaps "The future of HUD games" or on whatever you are passionate about...
It is up to you, you choose the subject.
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You can even re-use some of what you have here, in the last part of the article, "your view and comments". That would save you time and still be interesting for readers.
And yes, I know you may not have the time. Theoretically, none of us do...;)
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Since we are starting, any help is appreciated.
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Posted by: Javier Marti | March 16, 2007 6:35 PM
Great! How about 'The Future Of Not Spamming With Blog Comments'?
Posted by: simonc | March 16, 2007 7:42 PM
Wow, thanks for the plug, gents! It's nice to see that other writers appreciate my work, and the effort I put into it. I've had the idea on my mind for some time now, but I think it was flOw for PS3 that pushed it to the surface.
Thanks for the hits, and the kudos!
Nayan Ramachandran
High Dynamic Range Lying
Japanese Gaming for Gaijin
http://hdrlying.com
Posted by: Nayan Ramachandran | March 17, 2007 5:03 AM