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Jason Rohrer is microdosing chess
The designer whose personal games earned a museum retrospective is back to placing pixels by hand, one 32-color roguelike auto-battler at a time.
Pixel Art
Pixel Art
Takakurakazuki Debuts Ghost Gion Matsuri at PAC-MAN Show
The new work joins a seven-artist group exhibition at Kyoto's BnA Alter Museum art hotel
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Zhou Yichen's GRANDMA is coming to a metal cartridge
Backers can have someone they love redrawn as a pixel character in the Game Boy eulogy.
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With Top Hat signing on, METAMORPHOSIS goes full time
luxan's pixel-art horror game sends a nun named Aria across a dead world toward absolution
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Dice Have No Eyes turns push-your-luck into a fever dream
Arco artist Franek Nowotniak and coder Max Cahill made a gambling roguelike where managing your own greed is the entire design.
Tools
Before making a game, Lotritsa Studio shipped the tool
Kaleidos makes Perlin noise, cellular noise and reaction-diffusion playable
Generative Art
Travess Smalley's pixel rugs get a fluorescent monograph
Vetro Editions prints 192 pages of generative weaving in UV-reactive inks, with essays by Casey Reas and Anika Meier.
Tenebris Somnia
When the pixels cut away, Tenebris Somnia goes live-action
Andrés Borghi—the VFX artist behind When Evil Lurks—and Saibot Studios shot the film sequences with real actors and practical effects; New Blood publishes October 16.
roguelike
Franek and Max Cahill built a surreal roguelike about greed
Dice Have No Eyes is half the Arco team going all in on luck: feed your dice dumplings, roll once too often, and lose everything.
graphical fidelity
How low-fidelity pixels expose games' emotionless arms race
A new film shot on a 2008 cell phone has me convinced games have been losing an arms race they shouldn't be running—pixels and feeling were never the same thing.
game aesthetics
Why P.T. Anderson Gets Away With "Retro" But Games Don't
Why do filmmakers using vintage VistaVision get praised for aesthetic choice while pixel-art games get labeled "retro"? The difference reveals everything.
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Is this Twitter bot the next Bob Ross?
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