The game’s sprite layering also helped environments feel deep without ever leaving the 2D plane, ... Faster Than The Eye And Cleaner Than Most 2D Games Ever Got . ... Every Explosion A Work Of Art .

YoYo Games launched GameMaker Studio 2 on macOS this week, bringing the popular multiplatform 2D game development engine to the Mac for the first time. To date, the GameMaker Studio family of ...

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 ...

Graceful Explosion Machine is a 2D side-scrolling shooter debuting on the Nintendo Switch in April. Set in a series of space caves, your goal is to clear alien enemies out by acquiring various ...

The 3DNES project, as the name implies, extends the 2D sprites of the NES into the Z axis, letting players rotate the camera around to see the sides and back of the formerly flat sprites.

Several videos made by 3D pixel artist and designer Dott have surfaced in the past week, showing off what Pokémon Red might look like if reimagined in an HD-2D style similar to recent Square Enix ...

You can now have your cave and eat it too: NIS America recently announced the game's 2D sprite mode, which takes the original, flat characters and enemies and places them in remodeled 3D ...

The first press run of this version will have a special “Sprite” dustjacket that features new art from UDON co-founder and artist Arnold Tsang. That art being 2D, old-style sprite-based ...

But when viewed from the normal 2D angle, they look like the best sprite-based characters you’ve ever seen. That makes sense, since Fighter Z is coming from the same studio, Arc System Works.