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Death by Scrolling

Grumpy Gamer

Then a little game called Return to Monkeys island came along and I took the next two years to build that with Dave Grossman and a wonderful team. Monkey Island ended and I started working on a new game I dubbed “RPGTBD” It was a classic Zelda-like pixel art RPG and was a lot of fun.

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#Drive Rally by Pixel Perfect Dude is a love letter to the golden age of rally games

PreMortem.Games

The low-poly racing game, developed by Polish indie developer Pixel Perfect Dude , feels like a love letter to the PlayStation 1 era of rally games, where you could actually name the top drivers and the cars they drove. “Ah Racing portfolio Studio Perfect Pixel Dude, based in the city of Kalisz, Poland, was founded in 2013.

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The gorgeous visuals of Bionic Bay that Juhana Myllys calls Painterly Pixel Art

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It’s like a Portal gun in a way you can really build a whole game around it.” “For the visual look, there are many influences: 80’s analog retro sci-fi, the visual style of Roger Deakins, and artists like Moebius or Travis Charest.” We are very excited about it”, says Myllys. “It’s

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Pixel Federation goes all-in on AWS with help from Labyrinth Labs

AWS Games

Mobile game developer and publisher Pixel Federation entertains more than 140M players worldwide with popular mobile games, including ‘ Diggy’s Adventure ,’ ‘ Trainstation 2 ,’ ‘ Puzzle Adventure ,’ and ‘ Port City.’ We evaluated a few cloud providers, and ultimately AWS provided the best experience and capacity; it was an easy decision.”

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Mirthwood by Bad Ridge Games is mixing genres with something darker and more adventurous

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“All I knew was that I wanted something painterly and unique, and not necessarily more pixel art, which we love by the way,” he says. Laser focus The homestead-building mechanic stands out as one of the highlights for the two-man dev team. Learning to draw specifically for the game, he refined the style over time.

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Detective Dotson by Masala Games is a cultural joyride through modern-day India

PreMortem.Games

With its stylized blend of pixelated 2D characters against realistic 3D backdrops, Detective Dotson boasts a visual flair that truly sets the game apart. We use pixel characters to represent people of India as the endearing and expressive lot that we are! So we had to build all of that on our own.

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Deploy Unreal Engines Pixel Streaming at scale on AWS

AWS Games

Unreal Engine’s Pixel Streaming allows the running of Unreal Engine applications on a server in the cloud and streaming its rendered frames and audio to browsers and mobile devices using WebRTC. We will start off by building a custom horizontal scaling framework which will allow creation of signaling servers based on user session requests.

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