Curmudgeon Gamer
13 May 2009
Simple, beautiful pixel/vector art
If you're a Commodore 64 fan (shame on you otherwise), you'll appreciate these derived works. Found on Daily Rodent via GSW.
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Pixel art to vectorized image. Simple concept, beautifully executed.
Click for giant image.Pixel art to vectorized image. Simple concept, beautifully executed.
--jvm at 11:30
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22 January 2007
A few notes on artistic games
A piece I wrote speculating on an aspect of games this coming generation is up on Next-Gen.biz this morning. The topic is what I call artistic games, and I thought it might be worth adding few comments here.
- I intentionally left the term "artistic game" vague, which some might feel is a weakness of the piece. I can certainly appreciate that criticism. There are a few games that folks generally agree are artistic (or simply art) and I tried to stick to those as examples to minimize the discussion of just what constitutes art and focus on the point, which is that an evenly split market may lead to a more conservative market.
- There are some notable exceptions to the observation that most artistic games ended up on the PlayStation 2. I think Odama would count, and I could even see The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker too. Maybe something oddball like Cubivore or P.N. 03? All the examples I came up with were on the GameCube and I couldn't think of anything on the Xbox, although that might be simply my relative lack of knowledge of the Xbox library.
- I had to exclude handhelds since there are more experimental, and therefore artistic, games in that space. In particular, I find several of the games from the Bit Generations line for the Game Boy Advance to be beautiful specimens of design.
--jvm at 11:12
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