Growing up, Deborah Saez was inspired by everything from cartoons to games and anime. But it was Fumi Ishikawa’s work on Suikoden II that sparked her love of character design. “Her female designs were ...

Stunning 2D artwork and old school arcade gameplay combine in this new cyberpunk style shooter, but does it play as good as ...

It appears that back in 2016, Bandai Namco received a pitch for a 2D Metroidvania game set in the world of Dark Souls. Pixel ...

There’s a myth that true immersion into video games requires three dimensions: sidescrollers are good for nostalgia, but the future belongs to photorealistic 3D worlds. Fiquet says he created ...

Last year, Group Manager of Marvelous Entertainment, Tomio Kanazawa, told Siliconera that the company was considering releasing a version of Vanillaware’s Muramasa: The Demon Blade on the Nintendo 3DS ...

HD-2D is the natural culmination of looking back to the NES and SNES eras of gaming for inspiration. In the 1980s and early 1990s, games sported pixelated art styles out of necessity. In 2024, that ...

To introduce or review and practice recognizing the parallels between literary devices and their anologuess in 2D visual art, such as symbolism, irony, allusion, repetition, mood, and personification ...

While Arc System Works are experts at making stylish 2.5D fighting games, it was Battle Fantasia that made the Yokohama based developer shift from 2D artwork to the third dimension. Siliconera caught ...

Unlike more realistic 3D graphics, two-dimensional art has a timelessness to it that makes it a favorite among many gamers. It’s also an excellent way for independent studios to make great-looking ...

In its early stages, the metaverse has shown benefits for creators, ranging from the ability do what they love and make money in new ways, to seamless collaboration and more. Yet because of its ...