The game's designer, John Romero, has pointed out that this is so the player feels more involved in the game: " There was never a name for the DOOM marine because it's supposed to be YOU.

Although not relevant to actual play, the name of the game's designer is often prominently mentioned on the box, or at least in the rule book.

Following the game's release, Eitaro Toyoda moved back to Sonic Team Japan to work on Sonic and the Secret Rings as a game designer.

Indeed Greg Johnson, StarFlight's lead designer, helped write dialog for Star Control II and Paul Reiche III contributed to the earlier game's alien communication system.

The lavish rock star-like treatment given to Romero in his attempt to build a designer-centred game studio ( including a multi-million dollar office on the top floor of a Dallas skyscraper ), Romero's well-publicized expensive tastes and hobbies ( such as racing Ferraris ), the dubious saga of Romero's girlfriend, professional gamer Stevie " Killcreek " Case, being hired on as a level designer, and the game's development ( which included most of the original development team quitting en masse to form a competing company called Gathering of Developers ), incited criticism from the online gaming fan community.

Music and sound effects on the original arcade version of " Tapper " were created by the game's sound designer, Rick Hicaro, an electronic game developer at Marvin Glass & Associates ( MG & A ) who also happened to be a musician.

" The game's designer, Joel Miller, said Custer was " seducing " the maiden and that she was a " willing participant.

While brainstorming for ideas to Metroid Fusions plot, the game's lead designer, Yoshio Sakamoto, decided to create an original story instead of remaking a Metroid game because he " always to do something really unprecedented, something people have never played before ".

However, according to the game's designer, this balanced mix of units wasn't quite right in the first edition ; the second edition sped up heavy tanks, slowed down G. E. V. s, and changed the defender's purchasing from ' attack factors ' to ' armor units ' ( everything is considered equivalent, except howitzers, which are worth two of anything else ).

The game's lead designer, Ken Levine, oversaw the return of System Shock villain SHODAN.

According to the game's designer, Yu Suzuki, the stages of OutRun are mostly based on European scenery ; he had toured Europe in order to gain insight on how to design the game's levels and capture as much realism as possible.

Kazuma Kaneko, the game's producer and creative designer revealed that he set the game in Antarctica instead of Japan to appeal to audiences outside of the game's native country.

Mike Wikan, the game's senior designer, elaborated on the theme: " We wanted a push and pull, the whole game is pushing and pulling you back and forth between the dark and the light.

Several members of the game's development staff, including the main programmer and the character designer, had also worked on Treasure's shoot ' em up game Gunstar Heroes.

Character designer Tetsuya Nomura wanted his role in the story to be different from other Final Fantasy villains, while his design was intended to contrast directly with that of the game's main character, Cloud Strife.

* that the designer is interested in the game's outcome

The game's designer is Ed Annunziata.

Kojima's role in the game's production was that of character designer, specifically tasked with conceptualizing the game's main and supporting cast in a unique way.

The game's primary designer is Eric Lang, the lead developer is Nate French, and Damon Stone serving as associate designer.

The game's lead designer was Carl Schnurr.

In 2009 Eurogamer's Will Porter reviewed the game restropectively, praising the game's cartoonish graphics and voice-acting, but criticising its puzzles and noting that " Discworld commits every point-and-click crime you'd care to mention ".

Alan Wright, the game's project leader, stressed both the departure Populous: The Beginning took from previous titles in the series, as well as distinguishing itself from similar games like Command and Conquer.

* In the video game NBA 2K12, " Basketball " is used in the opening video and is also part of the game's soundtrack.

Unreal Tournament is often used for science fiction and Battlefield 1942 for war, but some artists subvert their chosen game's setting or completely detach their work from it.

Like other storytelling games Mage emphasizes personal creativity and that ultimately the game's powers and traits should be used to tell a satisfying story.

After inspecting the sync generator, he discovered that it could generate different tones and used those for the game's sound effects.

CGI cutscenes are used to illustrate progress through the main objectives, although they are all essentially the same short piece of video, showing a computerised image of the player character as he moves through game's levels.

( This segment also provided the game's original subtitle, Where in Corpsman Santiago is Roger Wilco ?, which was not used due to legal threats from the makers of the Carmen Sandiego products.

Part of the game's appeal was the use of special moves that could only be discovered by experimenting with the game controls, which created a sense of mystique and invited players to practice the game, although similar controller motions used for grappling maneuvers in the earlier Brian Jacks Uchi Mata were deemed too difficult.

# Video game soundtracks are often released after a game's release, usually consisting of the background music from the game's levels, menus, title screens, promo material ( such as entire songs that only segments of which were used in the game ), cut-screens and occasionally sound-effects used in the game ( Examples: Sonic Heroes, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time )

The only significant additions to the game's engine were the Jjaro ship, multiple paths between levels, a new rapid-fire weapon that could be used underwater, and vacuum-enabled humans carrying fusion weapons ( called " Vacuum Bobs " or " VacBobs ").

Infinity additionally came with " Forge " and " Anvil ", the applications used originally by Bungie Software to create the game's levels and physics, and to import the game's sounds and graphics.

However, the game's original HUD can also be used if desired.

Many of these tutorial sequences were used as technical demos and were shown at various events, such as E3, prior to the game's release.

In South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play !, Cartman can be selected as a playable character used to establish a tower defense against the game's antagonists.

The game's artwork was based on the Michael Trim, Geoff Taylor and Peter Goodfellow illustrations found throughout the original album booklet, and some of Richard Burton's dialogue as the journalist is used in the opening and closing scenes.

It used much of the 1998 game's music and graphical elements, but featured an entirely different campaign with a focus on vehicular combat.

There are games similar to " The Price Is Right "' s " 3 Strikes " pricing game, but game play varied depending on that game's concept ( with the El Chacal de la Trompeta character image used as the " strikes "; if the contestant finds the Sabado Gigante logo, it will eliminate one strike and awards a $ 500 bonus, which the contestant gets to keep regardless of outcome ).

* In the video game Tomb of the Lost Queen, a fictionalized version of her tomb is used as the game's premise.

The game's engine is a modified version of the Infinity Engine, which was also used for BioWare's Baldur's Gate, a previous AD & D game set in the Forgotten Realms.

In 1997, the game's designers produced a 47-page document that outlined the game's premise and vision statement, and was used to pitch the idea to management at Interplay.

The entrance to the Kingsway Tunnel is used as the basis of a tunnel entrance in the video game Grand Theft Auto III — during the 1990s, several members of the game's development team had worked for the Merseyside-based development company Psygnosis.