What Star Wars: Squadrons can teach us about reviving classic genres
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Expanding outward, Frazier explained that the UI team engineering the cockpit controls worked with Lucasfilm Limited to both mirror depictions of the different consoles as seen in the films, and make sure they were readable for gameplay. “We were pretending Incom, making X-Wings, or Sienar Systems, making TIE Fighters,” he said. “We also pretended to be Industrial Light and Magic working in 1977.”
That meant using cathodes, metal plates, and material that all looked like they were stored in the back of a Van Nuys warehouse in the late ’70s to answer questions that the fictional Star Wars engineers might be asking. Frazier called out that the computer screens in the different ships (even ones that weren’t around for the first film) particularly embodied this philosophy.
If you play Squadrons in the highest resolution in VR, you can lean in and see the individual dots creating images in the interface. Similar details were applied elsewhere. Peer closely enough where the canopy and hull meet and you’ll see scuffs in the paint that line up roughly with where a pilot would be repeatedly grabbing the hull to pull themselves in and out of the ship.
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