You can't buy good ideas
Left 4k Dead: Why is it that some lone goof can inevitably be more innovative than the zillion-dollar gaming industry? Here we have a top-down shooter, except with a catch: you can only see what your character can see.
This is an incredibly effective device (try it, you'll see). But the game wasn't invented just because of some great idea - it was made as an exercise to see how much game you can cram into 4KB of compiled Java.
This is an incredibly effective device (try it, you'll see). But the game wasn't invented just because of some great idea - it was made as an exercise to see how much game you can cram into 4KB of compiled Java.