{"id":2980,"date":"2010-06-24T13:20:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T17:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2021-03-27T17:15:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T21:15:49","slug":"the-game-maker-archive-sheldon-chase-and-the-woman-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/2010\/06\/the-game-maker-archive-sheldon-chase-and-the-woman-warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"The Game-Maker Archive: Sheldon Chase and the Woman Warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><p><b id=\"header\">by [redacted]<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of Recreational Software Designs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 support of its Game-Maker development suite, Sheldon Chase became a kind of pervasive presence. Somewhere around 1995 or early \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc96, he hit on the notion of digitizing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eadweard_Muybridge\">Eadweard Muybridge<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early motion photography for use as character sprites \u00e2\u20ac\u201d sort of a retro <em>Mortal Kombat<\/em> effect, if you will. 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.<\/p>\n<p>Much as RSD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Sample hero formed the template for uncounted male protagonists, Chase\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Muybridge lady became the starting place for legions of (often lurid) sprite edits. If for that reason alone Chase\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s input would be notable. 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