Honestly back when I was a kid this is how I thought games were made, every possible image of a game was already saved and according to your input it just loaded the next image.

I stopped thinking that with 3d games

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I remember having a thought one day as a young kid while interacting with a DVD main menu (the kind that had clips from the movie playing in the background, and would play a specific clip depending on what menu you went in to).

"This is basically how video games work, there's a bunch of options you can choose from and depending on what you do it shows you something. Videogames are just DVD menus with way more options."

I grew up to not be a programmer.

[–] kmacmartin@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

The game Myst actually worked kind of like a DVD menu with more options.

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