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>> PRODUCT REVIEWS NVIDIA’S NV PERF HUD 4 * SLICKEDIT’S SLICKEDIT 11

AUGUST 2006

THE LEADING GAME INDUSTRY MAGAZINE

>> DELIVERING THE GOODS

HOOK YOUR AUDIENCE,

THEN REEL THEM IN

>> I GOTTA BELIEVE

MASAYA MATSUURA

OUTSIDE THE MOLD

>> SLERPING MADE SIMPLE

FREE AT LAST FROM

TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS

CRYSTAL DYNAMICS’

TOMB RAIDER:

LEGEND

POSTMORTEM:

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CONTENTS

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AUGUST 2006

VOLUME 13, NUMBER 7

FEATURES

13 THE POWER OF PACING

You may be tempted to save your game’s

best moments for the end, to really leave an

impression on the player. Then again, you

may want the coolest elements at the

beginning to draw players in. David Sirlin

offers advice for acheiving this important

balance, with nods to games that have

nailed it and some that have failed it.

By David Sirlin

17 TO SLERP, OR NOT TO SLERP?

Whether to use Slerp, Lerp, Polyslerp,

nLerp, and the like has been debated

among game programmers for several

years. In this technical article, DigiPen

professor Xin Li defends one way to utilize

Slerp to your advange.

By Xin Li

POSTMORTEM

31 INTERVIEW: MASAYA MATSUURA

With his roots in music and his creative

spirit in games, Masaya Matsuura runs the

petite Nanaon-Sha, the same game

development company that brought us

P ARAPPA THE R APPER . Matsuura spoke with

Game Developer about what influenced him

throughout his career, from its start to now.

By Brandon Sheffield

24 REESTABLISHING AN ICON: THE PEAKS AND PITFALLS OF

TOMB RAIDER: LEGEND

How do you put a wayward series back on track? Crystal Dyamics fought

consumer apathy, a series’ fading legacy, and short schedules to get

Lara Croft back on top of her game. Riley Cooper shares the ins and outs

of this delicate process.

By Riley Cooper

DEPARTMENTS

COLUMNS

4 GAME PLAN By Simon Carless

Connecting People

34 THE INNER PRODUCT By Mick West

[ PROGRAMMING ]

A Shattered Reality

6 HEADS UP DISPLAY

Summer conference wraps, new animation engine unveiled, and more.

39 BUSINESS LEVEL By Mark Litvack

[ BUSINESS ]

Dealing With Piracy

8 SKUNK WORKS By Matt Shaw and Tom Plunket

Nvidia’s NVPerfHUD 4 and SlickEdit’s SlickEdit 11

40 GAME SHUI By Noah Falstein

[ DESIGN ]

Fair Play

64 A THOUSAND WORDS

Eden Studios’ A LONE IN THE D ARK

41 PIXEL PUSHER By guest columnist Ryan Ellis

[ ART ]

Ambient Occlusion and You

44 AURAL FIXATION By Jesse Harlin

[ SOUND ]

The Art of Conversation

COVER ART: JOEL BOUCQUEMONT

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