Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This time, the narrative revolves around Eric Manahan , the former architect who found solace in pixelated characters and captivating storylines. The pixelated game wasn’t just beautiful, but it was also a product of a single developer. Pen and paper, sketching ideas out, then translated them into pixel art.”

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AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

Having collaborated on previous projects across a wide range of industries – from comics, AAA games, television, music videos, visual effects, literature, theater, virtual and augmented reality, hardware, software, and R&D – the group contemplated how to create a meaningful, community-driven game on their own terms.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The game is balanced on a multitude of variables, events, triggers, put together like a house of cards. ” Not pixels but voxels The visual style of Three Minutes to Eight is unmistakable, characterized by its pixelated appearance. Many define the game as ‘pixel art’, but in reality this is not exactly the case.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

From indie studios to AAA developers, 2.5D Hybrid Animation Techniques Games like Cuphead rely on meticulous, hand-drawn frame-by-frame animations, while Octopath Traveler takes a modern approach, using AI-assisted rendering to apply real-time lighting and physics to pixel art characters. merges the best of both worlds.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Vampire Survivors got big at about the same time and really showed what the much bigger AAA game does wrong. Once you’re really rolling, you can just stand still and watch huge waves of pixel dudes get threshed by your guns WWI-style. There's no balancing. It's not about math and prissy game balance. No downsides.

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