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chương của ông là về Frenzic, một trò chơi giải đố nổi tiếng được tạo ra bởi Artis Phần mềm và Iconfactory. Chúng tôi sẽ bắt đầu bằng cách nói cho bạn những câu chuyện đằng sau Frenzic và thảo luận về quá trình thiết kế và một số điều học được trong khi chúng tôi phát triển các trò chơi. | Chapter Designing a Simple Frenzic-Style Puzzle Game his chapter is about Frenzic a popular puzzle game created by ARTIS Software and the Iconfactory. We ll begin by telling you the story behind Frenzic and discussing the design process and some things learned while we developed the game. Finally we ll guide you through creating a game called Formic which will demonstrate some of the concepts used in Frenzic. NOTE_ If you do not know Frenzic head over to http frenzic.com to download it and see about it for yourself. The version for the iPhone will cost you 2.99 but a version for the Mac that you can download and try for free is also available. Creating Frenzic First let s talk a bit about its history. Frenzic is quite old I have to confess. I had the basic idea for Frenzic about 18 years ago while watching a cheesy game show similar to Wheel of Fortune. The show involved spinning a big wheel with a ball inside that landed on money values for contestants to win prizes something clicked and the basic idea for Leblon the original name of Frenzic was born. Initially there were no power-ups and purely random pies. The game evolved was ported over to several computer platforms and got a bit better on every step of the way. You can see its current incarnation in Figure 1-1. 3 4 CHAPTER 1 Designing a Simple Frenzic-Style Puzzle Game There were two major milestones in advancing the game play ideal games and power-ups. In early versions of the game players felt that late in the game they would get unfair pies that they could not set. The pies were chosen randomly so even if they played a perfect game players could get pies that made them lose lives. Wolfgang Sykora had the idea to let the application itself play an ideal game in the background with the same pies you get. An ideal game means clearing circles as soon as possible. Based on this ideal game players would never be given a pie that could not be set. This .