Popular games in the developing world with very detailed planning and manufacture. Even among them require research for several years. However, there are some popular games that turn out to be an accident, a mistake, or just a fun project. This time Jaka has compiled 5 famous games created because of an accident. Here's the review.
1. DOTA is made from a combination of Warcraft and Starcraft
Dozens of games are many that originated from a mod or rooted in community development. However, when a team of talented developers made mashups from Warcraft-Starcraft in the early 2000s, who predicted would spawn a popular genre?
Defense of The Ancients is basically a Starcraft Aeon of Strife scenario that is converted to Warcraft III engine using game editing software, released for free by Blizzard. The modified map comes with a gameplay that changes widely based on the concept of tower defense and like wildfire on the Battle.net platform. Over time, DOTA was formed by fans in a forum. Now DotA who has reached its 2nd series became the most famous game in the world and champions in the e-Sport championship.
2. Pikmin Initially Just Demo for GameCube Console
Pikmin was originally a demo technology designed to showcase GameCube capabilities in Space World 2000. Nintendo amazes participants with the technology.
Although initially only a demo, Nintendo finally had another idea, where they handed this to a team led by Shigefumi Hino and asked them to make something original from the demo. Pikmin also present a fairly popular game until now.
3. Counter Strike is Mod from Developers Bored with Half-Life Game
Technically, Counter-Strike was deliberately created by a pair of programmers named Minh Le and Jess Cliffe , because they were bored with the Half-Life game. They also made a mod for Half-Life games where that was the original form of Counter-Strike, and eventually, the mod became popular phenomenally.
Valve did the right thing, they bought the work and hired Minh Le and Jess Cliffe to work on the full version which until now became the most famous FPS game of the universe.
4. Grand Theft Auto Created from A Glitch
Although hard to believe, one of the franchise game's most lucrative and controversial of all time, Grand Theft Auto, better known by the acronym GTA originated from mistakes Rockstar Games . Initially, the developers intend to create a race-themed game , where centered on wild races and a police pursuit titled Race n ' Chase.
However, during the making, there was a kind of glitch in which police cars became more than just chasing, but wilder and causing chaos in the game. But this is what makes the developers seem to get the idea. They finally defended the glitch and turned the whole game into a highly successful criminal-themed Open World game today.
5. Geometry Wars Initially Only Software Tester
The multi-directional shooter game, Geometry Wars, is actually never meant to be a game. This game was originally just a software to test the Xbox controller during Project Gotham Racing 2 . However, employees just enjoy the software and have fun with it. In the end, they decided to insert this software into an easter egg in Project Gotham Racing 2 game.
A similar thing also happens, where the players Project Gotham Racing 2 more spend their time playing this mini-game . Seeing a positive sign then this game released independently with the title Geometry Wars.
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