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Tooling wasn't static, but improved over the years. The first games might have been checked paper sketches and might not have been so CRT optimized. Even in t
by vardump 2y ago
Tooling wasn't static, but improved over the years.
The first games might have been checked paper sketches and might not have been so CRT optimized.
Even in the eighties, nothing prevented a Nintendo game developing team from using Amiga (or PC) Deluxe Paint for drawing the graphics. (They had also other specialized systems in Japan for pixeling graphics.)
- msephton 2y agoIf you're interested in the software used in Japan for pixel art (or dot art, as they call it) I keep a list, which has 235 entries at the time of writing: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/10/21/list-of-vintage-japanese-pixel-dot-art-software/ https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/10/21/list-of-vintage-j...