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Can you recommend any games in the first category? I surveyed the indie-game landscape a couple of years back, specifically looking for games in your first cat
by fleabitdev 4y ago
Can you recommend any games in the first category?
I surveyed the indie-game landscape a couple of years back, specifically looking for games in your first category, but struggled to find any recent examples. 2D transforms, alpha-blending and lighting effects seem to be the standard now.
- derjames 4y agoEmpire Strikes Back remake for c64 https://megastyle.itch.io/esb-by-megastyle https://megastyle.itch.io/esb-by-megastyle
- lozenge 4y agoCave Story, Shovel Knight?
- MattRix 4y agoThere are a bunch of retro inspired games (ex Shovel Knight) that do the retro inspired thing. More interesting is a game like Celeste, where it has a 3D level select but during the actual gameplay, the characters move in integers and the screen buffer is still fixed at a low resolution.
- Jasper_ 4y agoShovel Knight actually has a high-resolution render buffer and "subpixel" movement, but nobody seems to notice because the rules are mostly held in-place.
- erik 4y agoCeleste uses high resolution dialogue text, but its gameplay is strict about the pixel grid. Loop Hero is strict about its pixel art and uses a fixed 16-colour palette that is reminiscent of the Commodore 64. Baba Is You has visuals that you could basically render on a ZX Spectrum. And in addition to doing pixel art well, these are all pretty great games.