The future of interfaces often looks just like the present, but in neon. When Ubisoft announced Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon on April 1, everyone assumed it was a joke. Retro, 16-bit style, and a plot set in the "futuristic year 2007" all indicated a prank built on nostalgia for videogames from the 1980s. But the game appears to be real, retro-futurism and all. To design Far Cry 3, the artists had to create a computer interface that would look futuristic in the 1980s, even though the story is set six...
The future of interfaces often looks just like the present, but in neon. When Ubisoft announced Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon on April 1, everyone assumed it was a joke. Retro, 16-bit style, and a plot set in the "futuristic year 2007" all indicated a prank built on nostalgia for videogames from the 1980s. But the game appears to be real, retro-futurism and all. To design Far Cry 3, the artists had to create a computer interface that would look futuristic in the 1980s, even though the story is set six...
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