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...I don't know. You can have low-resolution 8-bit graphics which are better† designed. Look at classic Mac OS, or modern indie games with a retro pixel art aes
by Wowfunhappy 2y ago
...I don't know. You can have low-resolution 8-bit graphics which are better† designed. Look at classic Mac OS, or modern indie games with a retro pixel art aesthetic.
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† "Better" in this case means something akin to "what most people today would consider more professional." I don't want to judge.
- krapp 2y agoThe retro pixel art aesthetic is just that - an aesthetic. It's intentional and doesn't accurately reflect the technology it imitates, because it's about a vibe. The people creating Geocities webpages weren't professional developers or artists trying to adhere to a particular aesthetic, they were regular (mostly non-technical) people doing what they thought looked cool at the time, or just copying other sites and using the graphic elements or templates provided by Geocities.
- TillE 2y agoSure but we're talking about personal/hobby pages made by people who are overwhelmingly not artists and designers.
- b3ing 2y agoPixel graphics were still pretty much current at that time. Not everyone threw away the SNES/genesis when the next gen systems came out, most people probably still had one.
- b3ing 2y agoPixel graphics were still pretty much current at that time. Not everyone threw away the SNES/genesis when the next gen systems came out, most people probably still had one. And to do the pixel graphic style you need a pixel font which was impossible because you can only reference fonts people have on their computer, Fixedsys font was the best you could reference and some did do that.
- JojoFatsani 2y agoGeocities was not for professionals. It was for amateurs.