{"id":9039,"date":"2023-02-21T12:38:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T11:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/21\/it-took-over-my-life-how-one-man-made-his-dream-90s-video-game-on-his-own\/"},"modified":"2023-02-21T12:38:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T11:38:52","slug":"it-took-over-my-life-how-one-man-made-his-dream-90s-video-game-on-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/21\/it-took-over-my-life-how-one-man-made-his-dream-90s-video-game-on-his-own\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It took over my life!\u2019 How one man made his dream 90s video game on his own"},"content":{"rendered":"

Computer programmer Cassius John-Adams explains how he mashed up Crazy Taxi and The Fifth Element during an obsessive three-year period, single-handedly creating the game he\u2019d always dreamed of<\/p>\n

Over lunch one day at work, Cassius John-Adams, a computer programmer for a Canadian TV network, was moaning to his co-workers that things aren\u2019t as good as they used to be. \u201cWe got on to how everything, from video games to science-fiction films, was better in the late 90s and early 00s when we were all much younger,\u201d explains the 45-year-old from his house in Toronto. Someone mentioned The Fifth Element, Luc Besson\u2019s wildly inventive 1997 sci-fi film. John-Adams brought up Crazy Taxi, Sega\u2019s cartoonishly energetic driving game. And then, \u201cI was like: \u2018Man, I wish there was a mix between the two.\u2019 Everyone around the table went, \u2018Yeah, that would be the perfect mix.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the spark for one of the great passion projects in recent video-gaming history. Doing nearly all of the work himself, fitting it around his day job, John-Adams has made that very hybrid, a new game called Mile High Taxi that splices the vibe of Besson\u2019s movie and the hurtling mayhem of Crazy Taxi into a heady compound of millennial nostalgia.<\/p>\n

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\nComputer programmer Cassius John-Adams explains how he mashed up Crazy Taxi and The Fifth Element during an obsessive three-year period, single-handedly creating the game he\u2019d always dreamed of
\nOver lunch one day at work, Cassius John-Adams, a computer programmer for a Canadian TV network, was moaning to his co-workers that things aren\u2019t as good as they used to be. \u201cWe got on to how everything, from video games to science-fiction films, was better in the late 90s and early 00s when we were all much younger,\u201d explains the 45-year-old from his house in Toronto. Someone mentioned The Fifth Element, Luc Besson\u2019s wildly inventive 1997 sci-fi film. John-Adams brought up Crazy Taxi, Sega\u2019s cartoonishly energetic driving game. And then, \u201cI was like: \u2018Man, I wish there was a mix between the two.\u2019 Everyone around the table went, \u2018Yeah, that would be the perfect mix.\u2019\u201d
\nIt was the spark for one of the great passion projects in recent video-gaming history. Doing nearly all of the work himself, fitting it around his day job, John-Adams has made that very hybrid, a new game called Mile High Taxi that splices the vibe of Besson\u2019s movie and the hurtling mayhem of Crazy Taxi into a heady compound of millennial nostalgia. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Computer programmer Cassius John-Adams explains how he mashed up Crazy Taxi and The Fifth Element during an obsessive three-year period, single-handedly creating the game he\u2019d always dreamed of Over lunch one day at work, Cassius John-Adams, a computer programmer for a Canadian TV network, was moaning to his co-workers that things aren\u2019t as good as …<\/p>\n

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