The experience also gave me valuable insight into the process of bringing games to the PS4. I’d loved the elegant, minimalist approach to game design since first playing that iconic PS1 demo disc back in 1997, so working on that game was a dream come true for me.
Over a decade later, I found myself working in the games industry and was fortunate enough to become lead game designer of Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty, the 2014 remake of Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee. I was a huge fan of the Suikoden games, which inspired me to create some games of my very own: the Legion Saga trilogy, released in the early 2000s. My love for retro games stems from fond teenage memories of playing PS1 with friends or alone, late into the night in a darkened room. It’s a nail-biting test of accuracy and endurance which can all be over in a heartbeat (but you can jump back in for another go just as quickly). Gloopy space aliens descend upon you constantly and colliding with them spells instant doom, so you must use the game’s ultra-simple control system to time your shots with pinpoint precision and clear a path to the next sector. It’s fiendishly challenging (but always fair, of course). Just a single button to shoot and change direction at the same time.īut don’t let its simplicity deceive you. In Switch ‘N’ Shoot, your spacecraft automatically moves to the left or right, but every time you shoot you switch directions (hence the name). Well, it’s actually quite simple… but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.
At this point, you might be wondering how you play a shoot ’em up with just one button.
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