Pixel Ripped 1989 er et spill om å være en som spiller videospill

Den brasilianske utvikleren Ana Ribeiro gikk rundt i full cosplay-getup på PAX East da vi fikk huket tak i henne. Pixel Ripped er nemlig hennes hjernebarn, og etter et par års ventetid kan vi snart se målstreken da Pixel Ripped 1989 kommer ut til Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, og PSVR den 22. mai.

"It feels like Olympics, four years, the journey has been fun," kunne Ribeiro fortelle oss da vi spurte om hvordan utviklingen til Pixlel Ripped hadde vært, som har gått fra et enkelt studentprosjekt til fullverdig spill.
"I have been enjoying the process a lot. It has been long, but it has been an adventure. I've had a lot of ups and downs during the trip."

I spillet så skal du, som spilleren, reise tilbake til 1989 hvor din oppgave er å spille din GameBoy-lignende håndholdte i et klasserom, samtidig som du må unngå å bli oppdaget av læreren. Så du må balansere når du skal spille og når du skal la være, men Pixel Ripped kommer også til å ta ibruk de virtuelle omgivelsene.

"It's game about being a gamer. And fighting to play a game. It's like the whole world is conspiring against you to play video games. That's the big inspiration I got. It was always tough to play video games when I was a kid. Got my parents would turn off the electricity in the house and you couldn't save the game and I remember we were playing Ninja Gaiden. It was so hard, and we were like finishing the game and then my father just want us to come to lunch and he turned off the light, things like that."

Men kun ett årstall holder ikke for Ribeiro. Og hun har planlagt flere titler i det som blir Pixel Ripped-serien.

"There are actually four other episodes planned. So this is 1989, but we are planning to release Pixel Ripped 1978, to be Atari graphics and it's going to be in the 70s, and then we're going to be releasing 1983 which would be like arcade machines, 1995 would be the fight between Nintendo and Sega, 1999 would be the first 3D games, like the old school 3D Nintendo 64, so there are plenty of games coming."

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