Fantastic read and a really interesting company I did not know about until just now.

I would love to see how it handles Castlevania II.

▲ wwilson 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Haven’t tried Castlevania II, but here’s the first one: https://antithesis.com/blog/castlevania/

▲ AIPedant 5 days ago | parent [-]

This seems like a cool company and I don't want to nitpick too much, but gamers have no respect for history:

  Castlevania... [so] called because it is a Metroidvania game set in a Castle.

Ouch - this is precisely backwards. Metroidvanias are named after Metroid and Castlevania because those series practically defined the genre.

Also a bit frustrating because the first Castlevania itself isn't actually a metroidvania, it's a more conventional action-platformer. Castlevania II has non-linear exploration, lots of items to collect, and puzzle-solving, all like Metroid. So it's not too surprising Antithesis had to do a lot of work for adapting their system to Metroid - but I wonder if this work means it now can handle Castlevania II without much extra development.

	▲	wwilson 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You were successfully trolled. :-)
	▲	houky 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is correct. Also, Metroid is called Metroid because it is a Metroidvania set not in Romania, but on an alien world.

▲ tyleo 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah the company sounds interesting. I wish the main page had clearer info about what it does. There’s a lot of text but I want the simple, “here’s the little bit of example code to get going.”

	▲	tyleo 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		After a little more digging I found some very cool answers in the docs: https://antithesis.com/docs/
	▲	Aerbil313 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I assume they are intentionally not very vocal, probably still maturing/scaling their platform. Until recently they were a stealth startup. The stuff they are doing is truly revolutionary.

▲ gblargg 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> I would love to see how it handles Castlevania II.

I assume you're thinking specifically of using the red crystal to spawn a tornado: https://youtu.be/Mx9PwRIK9Io