It is important that they utilize the correct technical limitations, even if the
prototype will just ultimately be a rendered movie and not played in the game engine itself. Another reason
that I like to separate the game prototype from the visual prototype is that it allows the gameplay to hopefully
run at the correct frame rate early on, and it won??™t cause the art to be compromised.
At the beginning of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction for the PS3, we wanted to show how
much be er the world would look on the PS3 versus the PS2, so our ?¬? rst prototype was just an animated
?¬‚ ythrough of the city, which was used in the ?¬? rst Ratchet & Clank game. Because the gameplay wasn??™t going
to change a tremendous amount, the ?¬? rst video was really important to just show how much visually the
world would change from the ?¬? rst four games. This video was also used to wow the executives at Sony and
help us kick o?¬? the project o?¬? cially. Other smaller prototypes were also built to show how new weapons
would function and stu?¬? like that.
On facing design challenges:
Every game has a di?¬? erent set of challenges.
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