Trigger Happy
Fig. 20. G-Police: the information superhighway ( 1997 Sony Computer Entertainment)
Look at the screen. Top right is a number surrounded by a segmented, shaded ring. The number, a symbol, denotes the “health” of your gunship: when it reaches zero, the craft is destroyed. Similarly, the words at bottom right are symbols for the available weapons. But most of the gameplayer’s information is also provided indexically: the shaded parts around the health number vanish in strict ratio to the decreasing number, with an overlaid symbolic order of rainbow color, whereby green denotes maximum health,
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