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Parallax scrolling is a technique in computer graphics where background images move past the camera more slowly than foreground images, creating an illusion of depth in a 2D scene of distance. [1] The technique grew out of the multiplane camera technique used in traditional animation [ 2 ] since the 1930s.
Pages in category "Side-scrolling platformers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 296 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A vertically scrolling video game or vertical scroller is a video game in which the player views the field of play principally from a top-down perspective, while the background scrolls from the top of the screen to the bottom (or, less often, from the bottom to the top) to create the illusion that the player character is moving in the game world.
[2] [3] Side-scrolling was later popularized by side-scrolling shoot 'em ups in the early 1980s. Defender, demonstrated by Williams Electronics in late 1980 and entering production in early 1981, allowed side-scrolling in both directions in a wrap-around game world, extending the boundaries of the game world, while also including a mini-map radar.
A platformer (also called a platform game, and sometimes a jump 'n' run game) is a subgenre of action game in which the core objective is to move the player character between points in an environment. Platform games are characterized by levels with uneven terrain and suspended platforms that require jumping and climbing to traverse.
This article gives a list of platformer series, i.e. video games of the "platformer" genre. There are both 2D and 3D variants of such games, with the latter becoming more prevalent from the 32/64-bit era and up to the present.
Pre-release screenshot depicting Shovel Knight digging through dirt blocks. Shovel Knight is a 2D side-scrolling platform game with an 8-bit graphical style. [12] [13] In the base campaign retroactively titled Shovel of Hope, [12] players control the eponymous adventurer as he goes on a journey to rescue his partner Shield Knight while fighting the Enchantress and her Order of No Quarter.
The following year, Sega released the first pseudo-3D isometric platformer, Congo Bongo. [28] Another early pseudo-3D platform game released that year was Konami's Antarctic Adventure, where the player controls a penguin in a forward-scrolling third-person perspective while having to jump over pits and obstacles.