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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! At Electronic Arts he did the graphics in Will Wrights team that created Spore.

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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!” That choice was very much deliberate. “We

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Neo6502 Review

Retro Game Coders

Mhz with all signals available via connector RP2040 with 2MB of SPI Flash, 64k RAM available to the processor HDMI output with 320 x 240 256 colour display, higher resolutions appear on Apple/Oric emulators 20k Graphics RAM for tiles and 128 sprites up to 32×32 pixels.

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Module 3: Attack of the Snake (Lessons 1-2)

Game Designing

Learn the basics of pixel art and how to resize your sprite, both in terms of the canvas and the image. That’s what this w and H stands for, and it’s in pixels as you can see. (00:52) 00:52) Now if you don’t know what a pixel is, it is the smallest unit of measurement on a screen. And now it is 32 by 32 pixels.

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Oscar Salandin, developer of BOTSU Ridicuous Robots: “Solo dev can be lonely” 

PreMortem.Games

Oscar Salandin , known as Peculiar Pixels, received a major validation for his debut game, BOTSU Ridiculous Robots , by being named the Overall Winner at the Develop Indie Showcase Awards 2024. I wanted to design consumer electronics and gadgets so I studied Industrial Design and Technology.

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Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

Radiator Blog

Phaser: seems popular enough with decent TypeScript support, but I want the option of building out to a native executable without a weird Electron wrapper or something. However, it has been designed for a fairly specific use case: tile-based pixel art platformers. These are some really bizarre artificial resource limits.

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