Fiquet says he created Lizardcube to be a beacon of light for 2D animation in gaming, inspired by award-winning ’90s game developer Dave Perry, who created that era’s visually stunning “Earthworm Jim.

See The World As Eight Different Characters One of Acquire Corp.’s best games, Octopath Traveler 2 utilizes Square Enix’s trademark HD-2D graphics to create a really striking visual spectacle.

Most 2D games can be made to look acceptable with enough work. That's not always the case for NES games that already tried to force a pseudo-3D perspective on the original hardware, though.

A new experiment demonstrates how AI image generation could work for game development. An independent developer has released a short 2D shooting game they made using only AI-generated art.

Josh Tsui, a game designer and artist, formerly of Midway and EA, believes many 2D games made in the early 3D era held their weight. “3D was too young at the time and a lot of those games look ...

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So if you turned one of those 2D Sonic games on its side, it's just a line of pixels," says Oshima. "But when you're making a 2D game with 3D models, if you turn that sideways you're going to have ...

Backgrounds aren’t our specialty, Alex and I. I wasn’t confident in our ability to do full-color backgrounds in the timeframe we had, so it was a band-aid as well as part of the joy of the game!