The game’s sprite layering also helped environments feel deep without ever leaving the 2D plane, from the crumbling ... and parries—those precise, timed blocks that defined high-level Third ...

A giant voxel art dragon behind your base is cool, but what about the math behind your block based artwork? [mikolalysenko] put together a tutorial for making 3D objects out of video game sprites ...

"Basically, game objects contain full of blocks and ... [an] 8x8 [pixel sprite] tile, but based on "shape"—[a] meaningful collection of consecutive tiles... Consequently a 2D tile is not always ...

Tyler Wynne (“8BitNerd” on Etsy) re-creates the sprites from popular Nintendo series like The Legend of Zelda and Pokémon (the games he grew up on) as 2D bead work — a good choice for someo ...

Notch's success with Minecraft is well-deserved, but Terraria, the 2D, sprite-based game from tiny studio Re ... harvester that spans thousands of blocks, you begin to understand where ...

YoYo Games launched GameMaker Studio 2 on macOS this week, bringing the popular multiplatform 2D game development engine ... on hand to control objects and sprites, and a new brush-based image ...

To get all technical for the 2D game geeks out there: it’s getting a proper, drag-and-drop sprite importer, and built-in texture atlasing (so you can cram a bunch of sprites — like ...

It is also a remake of a PC game that has been available since 2004 ... Classic Mode pops 2D sprites into the 3D levels. Besides the 3D makeover and new music (lightly remixed versions of the ...

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 ...