The author of the Dragon Quest franchise Yuji Horii shared with the readers of his Twitter account a disdok of the very first game in the series.
According to Horia, the very first drafts of the levels were drawn on paper.
Then a layer of tracing paper with the characters depicted on it was superimposed on top.
The dialogues in the game were also originally recorded manually on paper.
The original Dragon Quest (or Dragon Warrior in the USA), which marked the beginning of the eponymous series of games, was created in 1986 by the Japanese studio Armor Project. The publisher was Square Enix. After that, many sequels of the game were released on consoles, PC and mobile devices. As of 2009, the total circulation of Dragon Quest reached 47 million. According to the Kotaku resource, this is one of the most popular game franchises in Japan.
Recall that recently the creators of Super Mario Bros. shared similar material. Nintendo has published a video where the game designers of the cult game describe the process of working on the project.
A source: https://twitter.com
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