Something is enduring about pixel art that keeps drawing us back. A handful of coloured squares shouldn’t have much power, ...

Game art has come a long way since its origin in systems like the Atari VCS. Fully immersive 3D worlds are typical for video games these days, and even 2D style games look better now than ever. If you ...

Morgan Williams has been a professional animator for almost 30 years and an animation educator for almost a decade. He has deep experience creating 2d character animation for commercial applications ...

I’ve been experimenting with different styles for a game idea, and I’m curious about hybrid approaches. Instead of going strictly 2D or fully 3D, I’ve seen games that use 3D models but keep a flat, ...

The Company Man is a 2D action platformer where you control Jim, a fresh graduate entering the workforce for the first time.

With the Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake release date (14th November) fast approaching, Square Enix is doing everything it can to keep our hype levels sky-high. And it's working. Today, the publisher ...

A simple generative AI tool can create video game maps, character models and emojis from a single-sentence prompt within milliseconds. Julian Togelius and Timothy Merino at New York University and ...

Animal Crossing characters, plushies, 2D video game characters, there’s a lot you can create with Gemini Nano Banana. Here are some prompts you can copy.

The Japanese RPG has travelled a long road since the early days of sprite-based 2D adventuring, but in Octopath Traveler we have a fascinating blend of old and new. Exclusive to Switch, it takes the ...