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This technique for making 2D pixel art look 3D is blowing people's minds

Think pixel art is only for simple 2D games? Not necessarily. Modern hardware and a bit of technical wizardry allows today's ...
PC Gamer

Confederate Express hits Kickstarter to fund a 2D-sprite animated RPG

Confederate Express , a just-announced tactical RPG from indie developer Kilobite , will feature all of my favorite things: permadeath, zombies and 2D sprite graphics. It is almost completely funded ...
vg247

The Most Beautiful 2D Sprite Games of All Time

This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been ...
Cartoon Brew

The 2D Gaming Boom: How These 3 Video Games Created Their Striking Hand-Made Look

Animation and gaming, kindred worlds from the start, have converged in various ways over the decades. The industries have shared writers, designers, characters, franchises. Technology, too: recently, ...
TechCrunch

Unity Game Engine To Get Official 2D Game Support And A Built-In Ad Solution

Unity, the increasingly popular “build once, deploy anywhere” 3D game engine, is going 2D. At the company’s UNITE conference in Vancouver this morning, CEO David Helgason announced three things: ...
siliconera

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Video Shows How 2D Sprites Are Created

WayForward Technologies have shared a new behind-the-scenes video for Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, that provides a look at the start of the animation process for the game. The video shows the creation of ...
AppleInsider

Apple's Sprite Kit framework targets games on iOS 7, OS X Mavericks & potentially Apple TV

Apple's new Sprite Kit development framework aims to make it easier to create 2D arcade style games for both iOS 7 mobile devices and the Mac desktop, and hints at a future strategy for games on Apple ...