PeakPointMatrix
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Currently when smaller downloadable games aim for retro, they seem to usually gravitate towards 2D 8/16-bit style of visuals, and the below is what we get:
While these are great games certainly, they visually tend to start blending together to me after a while. I'm sure there is a cost-effectiveness to keeping a game limited to sprite work, but I imagine that aiming for a low-poly look is leaps and bounds easier and cheaper than it once was for obvious reasons.
It surprises me that there hasn't been a surge of games experimenting with this 3D retro style of visuals yet. When will we ever really see it take off? Is the "retro" market open to it? I know for me personally, there is a magic and charm to low poly visuals that I wish we could get back to some degree. I'd snap up a classic low poly 3D platformer instantly. Perhaps I'm not looking hard enough?
Anyway, soak in the simplicity and charm inherent in these low poly examples. Don't you wish there were more low-poly games out there?
(Shamelessly stolen from the low-poly art thread)
The few games in development I found in that thread utilizing this style:
I want more!
While these are great games certainly, they visually tend to start blending together to me after a while. I'm sure there is a cost-effectiveness to keeping a game limited to sprite work, but I imagine that aiming for a low-poly look is leaps and bounds easier and cheaper than it once was for obvious reasons.
It surprises me that there hasn't been a surge of games experimenting with this 3D retro style of visuals yet. When will we ever really see it take off? Is the "retro" market open to it? I know for me personally, there is a magic and charm to low poly visuals that I wish we could get back to some degree. I'd snap up a classic low poly 3D platformer instantly. Perhaps I'm not looking hard enough?
Anyway, soak in the simplicity and charm inherent in these low poly examples. Don't you wish there were more low-poly games out there?
(Shamelessly stolen from the low-poly art thread)
The few games in development I found in that thread utilizing this style:
(Sky Rouge)
(Drift Stage)
I want more!