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The art of screenshake, Jan Willem Nijman

• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdEqssNZ-U
• Start with an incredibly boring platform shooter and, with 30 tweaks to the animation and sound, make it really juicy.
• If you watch the talk, you'll see how Nijman has a very cool the-demo-lives-in-the-presentation approach, where he can swipe forwards and backwards through the versions in a super interactive, ad hoc way.
• A couple of other notes:
  • If the shoot button is the only way the player can really interact with the world, you'd better make pressing it as significant as possible.
  • If you have a button, like the shoot button, you should give the player a reason not to press it. For example, in the strafing demo, the character will keep on facing in the direction of shooting until you release the button.

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