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Pulp fiction and retro gaming in the 21st century: An exploration of the pixel pump subgenre

Game Developer

Pixel Pulps are text adventure games in which we combine a type of narrative from the first half of the 20th century with home computer graphics and adventure game interface from the '80s.

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Shader Debugging Made Easy with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

Nvidia

Shaders are specialized programs that run on the GPU that manipulate rays, pixels, vertices, and textures to achieve unique visual effects. Shaders are specialized programs that run on the GPU that manipulate rays, pixels, vertices, and textures to achieve unique visual effects. With shaders, you.

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DPaint.js — Modern Deluxe Paint Inspired Pixel Art App

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com DPaint.js — Modern Deluxe Paint Inspired Pixel Art App DPaint.js is a free and open source pixel art application heavily inspired by Deluxe Paint. Deluxe Paint was the most common painting application for game art in the 80s-90s, used by studios such as iD Software, Lucas Arts, Sega and more.

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Three Minutes to Eight developer Chaosmonger Studio “Multiple stories moving parallel”

PreMortem.Games

Chaosmonger Studios , based in Tallinn, Estonia, is a multimedia production company specializing in everything from documentaries, science fiction films and animations to music video, graphic design and video games. But Piovesan is quick to clarify that there is more at work behind the stylized graphics.

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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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Pixel streaming considerations in AWS

AWS Games

Specialized Instances Games customers can leverage specialized instances that offer the latest Intel and ARM CPUs, along with graphics cards powered by NVIDIA and AMD. You can reach out to AWS Support for assistance in ensuring your load balancer can handle any expected traffic.

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Player choice is key in Bohemian Pulp’s debut game Let Bions Be Bygones

PreMortem.Games

“We’re a close-knit team of six dedicated professionals that all share a deep passion for gaming and design”, says Đorđe Marković , who also works as Team Lead and has a hand in graphics and FX. The game’s graphics showcase a distinctive fusion of modern 3D visuals with a nostalgic pixel-art look.

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