What? Your game isn't a pixelated retro masterpiece?

[Grunnt]

The nice thing about pixel art for me (as in intentionally low-pixel-count graphics) is that it helps a lot in the suspension of disbelief. Higher pixel counts or higher poly counts do not correlate positively with more immersion.

With regards to immersion, there’s two approaches that I see that work really well:

• go all-out with a 100M+ budget on ultra-realistic 3D graphics and animation a la Call of Duty series (immersion because you are fooled into thinking it is real)
• make it completely unrealistic using a consistent cartoonish style, pixel art or similar approach (immersion because its easy to suspend disbelief)

Using pixel counts or poly counts as a means to determine how well a game looks graphically is such a “technical” way of looking at things… Realism is boring, immersion is what counts for games.

Edit: using pixel art or other unrealistic graphics also means you stimulate the player’s creativity. The human mind is such a wonderful thing, why not understand how it works and use this in game development?

[Sabomoth]

I think you are all missing the point. All you think of is when the pixel art succeeds in delivering a positive picture of the game world. That is hardy the case in every game with pixel graphics. When the ‘artists’ try to use as few pixels as possible, as opposed to as getting as much detail as possible into few pixels, then the result will be crap. The art style also have to fit the game. Sure, its all about nostalgia, looking retro, etc etc, but when most fail at this it’s just a big bore and lets me think that i shouldnt even bother spending time looking at the fiftyeleven different pixelgames released.

[Grunnt]

Thank you for your nuanced contribution

[Drenius]

In the end, everything is about taste, and you know, there’s no accounting for taste.

[AcidFaucet]

@HeroesGraveDev

@AcidFaucet

What makes your time more important than theirs?

Simple. My hourly rate versus theirs.

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I’m not planning to do an LD1-30 back to back for nothing. I know there’s massive monetary gain for me in doing such.

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In fact, if I can manage even just 6 back to back, that makes me better than you by a massive longshot.

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I am lost. Can you please explain those 3 statements, and what relevance they have to this discussion?

You’re pretty retarded.
#1 Obviously, if my rate is 5 times theirs I’m worth more. Hence, their work isn’t worth shit.
To #2 there’s massive gain to doing a youtube serial of LD.
To #3 - LD is hard in a single case, doing LD back to back is hard * 6.

[Riven]

Quoting myself:

@Riven

Can’t we all just get along? AcidFaucet made 3 posts, all confrontational and indicative of a larger than life ego. This can only lead to a lot of back and forth about what was said, and how things should be interpreted.

If there is anything I learned in recent years, it’s that bickering is exceptionally damaging, regardless of who’s started it, or who’s right. AcidFaucet has been escorted to the padded room (no medals, no post editing, for 2 weeks) - consider this a first and last warning.

AcidFaucet has been banned, forever. We can do without the arrogance and hostile attitude.