Category:Sheldon Chase
The owner of Rochester-based KD Software, Chase handled most of the business end of Game-Maker. His company took orders, and handled RSD's packaging.
Chase's own Game-Maker games tend to incorporate tributes to, or pastiches of, classic sci-fi movies and TV shows -- the work of Ray Harryhausen, Rod Serling, and so on.
Somewhere around 1995 or early ‘96, Chase hit on the notion of digitizing Eadweard Muybridge’s early motion photography for use as character sprites. The result was a few drafts of a silvery, jittery nude model. After a bit of anti-aliasing and some animation tweaks, and finally some wardrobe assistance, he presented to RSD a stock female character for inclusion in future software updates.
Much as RSD’s Sample hero formed the template for uncounted male protagonists, Chase’s Muybridge lady became the starting place for legions of (occasionally lurid) sprite edits. If for that reason alone Chase’s creative input would be notable. Yet his Woman Warrior games also exemplified several unusual and advanced techniques, as well as a curious borrowed aesthetic that sticks in the mind.
- Also see: Recreational Software Designs
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