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152 LEVEL 6 The Three Cs, Part 2—Camera
Zooming screen: LittleBigPlanet zooms out whenever there is more than
one character on screen. If any of the characters get off- screen, they use an
arrow to keep track of the player ’ s location. If they stay off screen for too
long, the player is “ killed ” until the next checkpoint is reached. Power Stone
does something similar, but dynamically scales in and out as there can be
up to four players on screen at once. The characters get pretty tiny at times,
but coupled with an indicator arrow system you can keep track of your
character pretty well.
Camera in picture: You can also go with the camera - in - picture route. A
main character is represented on the “ big screen ” with additional characters
shown on smaller insert camera views. It ’ s not the best solution for some
types of multiplayer games like FPSs, but it works pretty well for sports titles.
Whew. I think we ’ ve exhausted the topic of cameras. Time to move on to the
last of the Three Cs … Controls.