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Hypercasual games market is shrinking, still 3.7 billion downloads last 3 months

PreMortem.Games

Thus, when every pixel of the old games seems to be explored up and down, DLC (downloadable content) might become a good option to sugarcoat things. For both of these cases, pixel games often work as a great basis. Time-sensitive touch Next in our selection is Piano Star: Tap Music Tiles with 25.7M Tiles Hop: EDM Rush!,

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How To Draw Pixel Art

DameDev.tv

Rick Davidson & Tim Ruswick* are joined by Reece Geofroy to talk all things pixel art and how to get good at it. We also have a new Pixel Characters course from Reece, you can check that out here. You can also check out Reece’s pixel art game Monster Tribe on Steam. 's very own Instructor extraordinaire).

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Advanced GPU optimization techniques in Unity 6 • Insights from Unite 2024

PreMortem.Games

Overdraw optimization In cases where the GPU is pixel-bound, a common cause is overdraw, where pixels are shaded multiple times in a frame. This increases the likelihood of multiple passes being applied to the same pixel, taxing the GPU even more. Another important consideration is transparency.

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The Ultimate Assets and Sounds Humble Bundle

Game From Scratch

It consists primarily of pixel art graphic packs (character sprites, tiles and tilemaps and effects) as well as sound packs (ambient, foley effects, sfx and more). The Ultimate Assets and Sounds Humble Bundle is a collection of game development related assets from the GameDev Marketplaces.

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Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

Cocos

The vertical axes of textures and picture pixels is shown above, when sampling textures in shaders, that is from top to bottom, which is top-right corner. This is consistent with how most image file formats store pixel data, and with how most graphics APIs work (including DirectX, Vulkan, Metal, WebGPU, but not OpenGL).

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Job Opening

Grumpy Gamer

I'm looking for a great 2D pixel tile artist. You need to have experience building tiles sheets for a tile-based game, I would prefer it if you've worked on a released game, but if haven't and your art is just a hobby and you're really good, that's OK. Must love pixel art. Think of it as a puzzle.

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Creating and Working with Textures in Affinity Designer

2d Game Art Guru

Frequently used in the art for games, tiles such as the stone wall need to match seamlessly to the next tile in all four directions, while being flexible enough to create variations and transitions to other tiles.

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