Dragon's Lair and Space Ace are games that were made in the 80's. Basically you had full screen cartoon movie playing back while the player made choices to progress in the game by moving a joystick or pressing a button. The input events would then trigger different movie clips to play back.

I'd like to create a full screen cartoon action game like those that would run on a mobile device. I was wondering if Dragon's Lair was remade today, would full motion video playback still be the best option? Or should I try to make the game entirely sprite based?

If Dragon's Lair would have been made today it would be 3D based and rendered using a cartoon shader for the characters if that was the desired look. Video simply takes too much storage space.

If Dragon's Lair would have been made today it would be 3D based and rendered using a cartoon shader for the characters if that was the desired look. Video simply takes too much storage space.

Face slap. Of course! I don't know why I didn't think of using a cartoon shader, that will be much easier than what I had in mind. Thanks