These are the slides for the presentation I gave at IR9 in Copenhagen. I organized a panel on how "platforms" shape videogame worlds.

2. Shaping Creative Collaborative
Platforms and Practice Practice

3. Creative Collaborative
My Object of Concern
Practice

4. The NES and the PPU The Birth of the GPU

5. The PPU

6. The PPU

7. Sprites, Palettes, ...
• Support for 256 8x8 Sprites
• Support for 128 8x16 Sprites
• Or Some Combination...
• 8 Movable Sprites Per Scan-
line (for a Maximum of 64)
• Movable Backgrounds
• 32x30 8x8 Sprites Make Up the
Background

8. Super Mario Bros. Bad Guy Sprites

9. Super Mario Bros. Happy Things

10. Super Mario Bros. Mario Sprites

11. Tools to Collaborate
With

13. The PPU In Action