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Why do people still make pixelated graphics?

alphster · 2011-04-11T08:23:19

Hey guys, I was curious as to why I see so many indie games being made using old-school graphics (like SNES graphics). Especially in 2d games.. My game programming is limited to lightly goofing around with XNA - but it seems to me that if you are capable of create good 2d graphics, it's super easy to import beautiful images that retain their level of detail even when rendered in the game. So this leave me to believe one of these: - game developers are purposely using SNES-like images to give their game a "nostalgic" feel. - game developers are pushing really hard to make their game as little kbytes as possible by using low resolution images - something else? Can someone shine some light on this for me? It's just kept me very curious...

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Started by alphster March 17, 2011 09:41 AM

19 comments, last by TomKQT 13 years ago

TomKQT

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April 11, 2011 08:23 AM

[quote name='MeshGearFox' timestamp='1301611818' post='4792788']
Pixel art is harder to make than regular art. Have fun manually dithering your everything.

I will take that challenge, I will be working on my art assets this weekend. I will show you what I will come up with for my map tile set next week.

Specs I will be using:

52 color Palette (same as NES)
16x16 tiles
64 tiles in total.
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So, do you have anything done yet?

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