A portion of a Miketendo64 interview with Raw Fury's Gordon Van Dyke...
Miketendo64: “Other than Switch, was Kingdom considered for another Nintendo platform, like the 3DS?”
Gordon Van Dyke: “We did try to get Kingdom to run on the New Nintendo 3DS but it just wasn’t powerful enough. Kingdom is deceptively more CPU intense than people expect. They see this presentation of pixel art, there is a lot of modern rendering and shader techniques going into the game that Tom, who is the creator, artist and programmer for a lot the rendering techniques, he did it so well that people don’t notice which really shows his skill set and nobody realises…”
Miketendo64: “…How complicated and complex it is?”
Gordon Van Dyke: “Yeah, he does it so well. He does this trick for lighting individual pixels so that the light didn’t just shine in an inclusion way and gradient through the pixels. No, the lighting lit up individual pixels and the further away they were, the less bright the pixels would get. The Water as well, if you look at the water, it’s a shader technique to give it the perception of being liquid but pixels because he wanted it to be pixel perfect. So unfortunately the New 3DS just wasn’t powerful enough and then there were rumours floating around about another portable device by Nintendo. We were respectful, we didn’t ask them about the rumours.”
Miketendo64: “But you did talk to them?”
Gordon Van Dyke: “Yeah, we talked to them about potentially doing something for the Wii U because it was more powerful and using a more up to date version of what we were using for Unity. So we were going for that and they started poking us and saying that they really like GoNNER and we got a lot of interest from them for that their external publishers really wanted to meet with us at PAX, Especially PAX West because it’s in their back yard. Nintendo America is in Kirkland which is close by in the same region.
Close to the announcement, Nintendo got in touch with us and said that they were coming out with something as everyone knew which we are going to be announcing soon but we can’t tell you the exact details because we haven’t done the partnership but we are interested in bringing some of your games, especially GoNNER, and putting it in our Launch window of around 3-4 months from the release of the hardware. We were just floored.”
from GoNintendo
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