Who doesn't love a meticulously crafted, gorgeously animated sprite?
2D games have kept a low profile on the living room systems for a while now. With the advent of high-definition graphics on former "next-gen" systems, you'd think that 2D dot-artists would be running for the hills screaming. "Holy s***! I cant e-sketch that big on my Wacom tablet! "
It's astounding that over the last few years we have witnessed a 2D revival on the current generation of platforms, many rendered in undoubtedly time consuming high definition.
Here is a pair of upcoming 2D show-stoppers that I'm sure will join the ranks of Castle Crashers, Warioland: Shake It!, Soldner-X, and Braid, just to name a few.
This footage is from an alpha-build of XNA-developed Elysian Tail: Dust, created by Dean Dodrill.
The animation is breathtaking! Hope the furry-esque character designs don't turn people off from this awesome looking hack-n-slasher.
This next video is also pre-alpha footage, but much like Dust, even it it's early stage the art and animation looks superb.
Klei Entertainment, of Eets fame, are developing a Tarantino-inspired 2D action side-scroller titled Shank and it's shaping up nicely to say the least.
Klei have yet to officially announce a platform release yet, but the controller shown at the beginning of the video suggests that this may come out on XBOX LIVE Arcade. Maybe an announcement will be made at E3.
Viva la 2D!
2D games have kept a low profile on the living room systems for a while now. With the advent of high-definition graphics on former "next-gen" systems, you'd think that 2D dot-artists would be running for the hills screaming. "Holy s***! I cant e-sketch that big on my Wacom tablet! "
It's astounding that over the last few years we have witnessed a 2D revival on the current generation of platforms, many rendered in undoubtedly time consuming high definition.
Here is a pair of upcoming 2D show-stoppers that I'm sure will join the ranks of Castle Crashers, Warioland: Shake It!, Soldner-X, and Braid, just to name a few.
This footage is from an alpha-build of XNA-developed Elysian Tail: Dust, created by Dean Dodrill.
The animation is breathtaking! Hope the furry-esque character designs don't turn people off from this awesome looking hack-n-slasher.
This next video is also pre-alpha footage, but much like Dust, even it it's early stage the art and animation looks superb.
Klei Entertainment, of Eets fame, are developing a Tarantino-inspired 2D action side-scroller titled Shank and it's shaping up nicely to say the least.
Klei have yet to officially announce a platform release yet, but the controller shown at the beginning of the video suggests that this may come out on XBOX LIVE Arcade. Maybe an announcement will be made at E3.
Viva la 2D!
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