LEGO – the same familiar with the childhood thing, like candy, hide and seek in the yard and my father’s belt. Unlike the latter, the designer from Denmark wanted to get every child.
What is the reason for such popularity? Tumblr bloggers through comparison with the Playmobil, a German rival, identified strengths of the product. List briefly shows why we love the iconic designer.
LEGO World pleased to explore the whole family. Toy is not only a model of quality, but also the experiences of children assembly. child’s imagination provides infinite replayability.
For the first time – the first failure
In the gaming industry Danes came later – in 1995. But the first platformers program was not before 1999. Late in the day, is not it? LEGO does not think so.
Design fans brought the key features of the brand. Clockwise: focus on the whole family, study, creation, challenge players, endless replayability, quality and design. And what is your list?Just the first publishers began to make a cartridge for the Atari 2600 , how everything was covered with a copper basin. In 1983, the game business is over before it started. On the part of LEGO would be ill-advised to invest in unreliable market. Ironically, the playing area in the future will save the company from collapse.
But in the second half of the 90 the situation is changing: becoming increasingly popular training programs for the PC. The LEGO, as one of the top children’s brands, decides to move in this direction. And here and Sega releases Pico – laptop for children. The ideal set of circumstances!
Thus was born the Lego Fun to Build. Just call the result useful or fun for kids can be a stretch. From the designer in Fun to Build was just setting. On the PC screen on rebyatnyu looked favorite plastic men from different universes, from the Middle Ages to the modern city and cosmos. Developers using digital copies of real meshes that then were in demand. The only thing that was done right.
Sega Pico was an interesting device: the main input device – touchpad with stylus. Because children love to draw!The rest of the program does not use any of the foundations of LEGO. The project is hardly a family: only a three-year child can play this with pleasure. Children and adults who are familiar with at least NES, will be held at a distance of a cannon shot from a schlock. The Fun to Build build something was not fun. Assembling modelek not recreated an appeal with the designer: docked blocks logically, but in strict order. Even Super Mario Bros. 3 for Dandy felt much better memory in the mini-game with cards. The difference between the “Mario” and the debut of LEGO – seven years!
The remaining elements of Fun to Build – plagiarism game mechanics of a decade ago. Mario stole the maze – it’s flowers. Developers have built race and Arkanoid, familiar to readers of the Chinese “Tetris”. This level of quality is not LEGO, and his Taiwanese clones. Ashamed to produce when preparing to leave PS One and Nintendo 64.
Wretchedness debut LEGO add entering into use CD-disks. Thanks to the latter, gamers enjoyed the music and cinematic-quality rollers.It is better to give the job to professionals
Fun to Build first turned stale lumpy. It is not surprising that nowhere but in Japan, the project is not a distance. The Corporation has made an important conclusion: she knows nothing about the video game business. So, we need to find people who understand it.
French publisher of computer software Mindscape took over the development and dissemination of Lego Island . Game released in 1997 for Windows 95. The project became a commercial success: continuous positive reviews in the refreshed circulation of about one million copies sold. What is the reason for the success?
So what happens when you trust the work of competent people and making good bets on technology. It is a version of the ’95 began the familiar Windows for us: with the “Start” menu, taskbar, and desktop. Therefore, children who are horrified by the DOS interface, can run without problems Lego Island .
“The Island” was the first computer game for many gamers that were born in the 90s. Not surprisingly, on YouTube comments to her declaration of love. One user even recreated the map in Minecraft.In addition, it was the first complete game of LEGO license, which used copies of real sets and figurines. Moreover, the first minutes of “The Island” with his head dipped into the world of your favorite designer. Circuits are interactive, not only solidly traced!
The program carried out the dream rebyatni: More LEGO! Many sets could buy only the child of wealthy parents. But “The Island” made it possible for the user to live in that abundance. Children appreciated the journey in the first person on foot and in vehicles. Moreover, the work is played out close to the life situation: work in the garage, pizza delivery, catching criminals. Immersing the user in the world of the work with an abundance of everyday situations, Mindscape first embodies the mantra “research” designer.
The creators even anticipated the LEGO Star Wars , presenting all the scenes with irony and humor. However, local jokes seem silly, even a first grader. Plastic “Star Wars” is much better than amused. And without a single remark: only the images were in progress.
Cinematics Lego Island – a collection of the worst attributes of products for children. Debility cartoon sounds, grimacing actors – Pixar, come so point-order!Although the main drawback was the poor on a variety of gameplay. The only thing we do here, it’s hydrating. Yes, drive on a three-dimensional world in the first person in the ’97 was great. But it’s not even close to worth of genius with the LEGO concept: all six of his pieces the size of 2×4 can be folded 915 103 765 th different ways!
The conveyor is running
Mindscape success forced the Danes to look at the gaming industry. But why share treasures from outside the company, when it is possible to become a publisher?
So there was a Lego Media International, – the unit that oversees the production and release of entertainment applications. Not wanting anyone evil, these people will kill interest in the projects on their intellectual property.
Rights holders have collaborated with the inferior (at best) studios.
The lion’s share of developers make games only for licenses. Seeing their portfolio, gamers-aesthetes clutching his head. Loafers for it was a golden time: crooked copy the central mechanics of the masterpiece, and you will profit. The victims become plagiarists by Mario Kart , of Dungeon Keeper , of Battle Chess , and many others.
There is nothing wrong in borrowing other people’s ideas, if embody them creatively. So, for example, of Blizzard became mastodon industry.The developers made a typical mistake of those years: children are not as smart as adults? So malyshni can be fed primitive artefacts of dubious quality! All projects till 2005 have only designer style. But this is not LEGO-game. Exception – Series Creator.
Although they present building, it was too flat interpretation of the concept of the designer. Franchise “Creator” offered a primitive level editor in the guise of the game.
Lego Media International projects did not achieve the two main goals. As a clone, the program did not meet the highest level of quality brand. Also, none of the series that has not resulted in a franchise that can replicate the scale of desirable child boxes.
Near the designer has a unique feature: there are no unnecessary details. There is always an enthusiast who needs an element of some old kit. Thanks to this versatility and compatibility, LEGO is a pity to throw away. Unlike its digital incarnation of those years.
We have designer mega hardcore followers. The ordinary people unnecessary details they see the greatest value.The Danes lost interest in the gaming industry and publishing business was closed in 2003. But with deductions for license Europeans are in no hurry to leave. EA and THQ continued freak parade in digital equivalent.
But Lego Interactive has left a good legacy: at the time of closing, there is a future hit and riveting messiah cubic games: the LEGO Star Wars . Once outside, the team established a studio Giant Interactive has Entertainment’s . Newfound company said a wealthy developer from the UK – Traveller’s Tales . The last refuge of “Star Wars” developers – so begins the era.
Salvation!
We all know that more Traveller’s Tales will launch a mega-popular, super-profitable streak. But there are two third-party work, which laid the foundation of the British success.
What is relevant to our topic are “Chronicles of Narnia”? on her game cleaned stripped with plastic “Star Wars.” mechanic does not impress the designer without context.The Xtreme Stunts Island – the third project in the series “Lego Island.” “Extreme Stunts” the first to show the usual plastic today little man management. Fixed camera in the third person, free movement around the world, where with the help of jumps we find collectibles. These features embody talented authors of “Lego Star Wars.”
Traveller’s Tales is not the first invented to create virtual LEGO-version of the popular universe. Gold mine opened Lego Creator: of Harry Potter . It is anticipated short and silent comic scene-sketches from the far-distant galaxy. However, the rollers in the “Harry Potter” is not linked plot: they were scattered about the miniatures of study at Hogwarts.
Traveller’s Tales not invented the wheel was not the first in space in the context of LEGO applications. But it is on a new level of quality has opened someone else’s license, using plastic men. This success was preceded by many years of work in obscurity.
Series Creator loses its real counterparts even in appearance.Photographed clumsily set looks eloquent digital copy.Studio 1989 creates games based on feature films and animation. He worked as a team no worse and no better than other professionals in the field. Past life became the foundation of success at the beginning of the new millennium: first, the company will open a publishing business. She even buys Warner Bros for nerazglashonnuyu amount. Not bad for a mediocre developers?
All this rock and roll began with the simple features of LEGO. A variety of themed sets – the main reason for the success of the designer in adults. Entire generations grew up on “Batman,” “The Simpsons” and other long-running franchise. Therefore, sets them nostalgic for men, and those happy to part with money.
Traveller’s Tales has maximized this principle: the developers are not just used scenery from the world of George Lucas . The creators are carefully reproduced the scene, the atmosphere of a new trilogy. Composers even used music from the prequels. The release version is not entered unless the song “Revenge of the Sith.”
10 * [ “Lego Star Wars” magically ended: users that previously acted together, fight each other in the famous scene from the third episode.]
Do not forget the British and the fact that children through themed LEGO sets of cult movies and learn the fruits of popular culture. Meeting happens in a distorted form of post-modernist. This approach teaches children that you can redo any work, interpreted in unexpected ways.
Traveller’s Tales recounts the history of “Star Wars” in the form of comic sketches. This is the first LEGO-game where humor does not cause nausea. Everything in moderation: the duration of the scenes, the level of non-intrusive stupidity, carelessness. Illuminations of the previous games of the Danish designer just wanted to wipe.
The first and only of its kind
Before Star Wars no game combines many designer basics. Spoiler: these projects will not after. New in the world of video games is something so complex, but simple and elegant like the LEGO, are units of the units.
As a building material you can use anything. Some enthusiasts make sculptures out of meat. But LEGO is not just a tool: it is the embodiment of the creative impulses of the soul.Lego – it’s gold, platinum even for ingenuity, integrity and universality of the idea. This is a universe of details: from ordinary to elegant-rare. In their totality, they are devious way combined with each other to form a sometimes incredible system. The Danes have created a unique product for children, where the combined genius of engineering and boundless creativity.
How plastic droids Jedi can remotely be compared with such a giant? After all, this is the usual action adventure! The devil is in the details.
Here it is necessary to fight a lot and often, earning foreign currency. Character loses her dying. In the other game of the failure of the user reclines backward ten minutes. Traveller’s Tales made painless death for a child protégé. To master the application completely, you need to maintain the agreed amount of fines at all levels. Messy fuss about – you lose detail. The child is not easy to survive alone, but even more difficult to solve the puzzle.
Death in LEGO Star Wars stylistically the opposite of what we see in Dark Souls. Although there is similarity: character becomes poorer.There is connected a parent, brother or sister. The eldest child of help wondering: is it possible to feel the legendary Obi-Wan! To participate in the events of your favorite fictional universe! And the puzzle is simple: one knew – knew everything. Many of them require team cooperation: the child will be assisted by following the instructions of the parent. Collectively puzzles and fights balance each other. Therefore, young and old alike play with enthusiasm: focus on the family in action.
The test here is not limited to fighting: the real difficulty lies in the re-examination levels. There you will find what did not notice before, apply previously acquired knowledge. At the same time try to bring as many coins, because for them it is possible to open new characters. Yes, to hell with them, the men plastic: Currency unlocks mission Darth Vader!
For in-game money you opened the characters distant-distant galaxy. For fans of the film saga collect all the figures – a matter of honor.Return to the original, a different view of the assembly traversed reminiscent of LEGO. In it the main test is also initiated when I already finished design to your liking. Traveller’s Tales first adequately embodies the mantra Challenge Lego applications. In addition to the study of the universe Lucas, high quality product.
Ironically, the “Star Wars” and its followers from the British studio rescued corporation All Denmark from financial ruin in the middle of zero. Traveller’s Tales projects spurred sales gathering dust in the stores sets.
