Originally planned to feature "Roadhouse Blues" by The Doors, the soundtrack now focuses more heavily on hip-hop. Major changes were also made to the soundtrack. For example, one screenshot, dated "", shows that San Vanelona was originally planned to be a coastal city, featuring a football stadium, harbour and cruise liner. The ability to play as a female skater was later incorporated into Skate It's skater customization system.Įvidence from different versions of EA's official website for Skate show that the game has been through some major changes in development. Similarly the developers also wanted players to be able to play as a girl but this was also discarded after proving tough to animate. Initially the development team planned to include the ability for the player to get off of the skateboard and walk around, but animating this proved to be too big a challenge for the team to handle. Havok, Endorphin and others were considered, but ultimately a RenderWare package called "Drives" was used to model the joints of the human body. The game relies extensively on physics to model the skateboarders' movement. The developers found that in order to receive accurate information from the very fast analogue stick motions used when playing the game, input data from each control pad had to be read at a rate of 120 Hz.
The game's "flick it" control system began development long before any graphics had been implemented: the initial prototype simply read analogue stick motions and displayed a basic text message saying what trick had been performed, along with speed and accuracy ratings.
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