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« Reply #105 on: June 27, 2012, 04:05:30 PM »
I'm not really mad that people like pixel art, it's just an art style. I actually find it very nostalgic myself.
The thing that pisses me off is how he is so obviously ripping characters without any imagination whatsoever. He's in the position where he could make a wonderfull game with his own characters. Yet he chooses to simply grab existing stuff and mix it up enough not to get sued.
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« Reply #106 on: June 28, 2012, 12:57:07 AM »
We're making a game about farting pixel zombies, so I guess I'm not in the position to argue here.
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« Reply #107 on: June 28, 2012, 03:15:17 AM »
I'd like to add this one: Adventures of Lomax in Lemmingland

Quite beautiful pixel art, do you agree not?
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« Reply #108 on: June 28, 2012, 03:27:02 AM »
Agree but I don't like the main character's design.
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« Reply #109 on: June 28, 2012, 03:37:51 AM »
I played Lomax as a kid.
BTW, nobody said whole pixel-art is an ugly joke.
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« Reply #110 on: June 28, 2012, 06:01:43 AM »
In my opinion, there's no ugly stuff in that game. I regret so much not having a PSX and that game anymore...
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« Reply #111 on: June 30, 2012, 11:57:37 PM »
I must say, i've been lurking TIG since creating an account recently, but this thread has given me many a laugh Tears of Joy I feel bad for that guy's scalp.

If you guys didnt know, Lomax's art was done by Henk Neiborg, a prolific pixel artist I learned about when first taking up pixelling myself. Here's his personal gallery:  http://www.henknieborg.nl/home.html
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« Reply #112 on: July 01, 2012, 08:25:29 AM »
Woah, I never knew that was made by a two-man team.
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« Reply #113 on: July 01, 2012, 08:52:06 AM »
Fake "retro" graphics are pretty bad, but there are other styles that are even worse like Meat Boy's style
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« Reply #114 on: July 01, 2012, 09:08:12 AM »
Dunno, I think that SMB looks pretty good, I'd call it modern and minimalistic pixelgame art.
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« Reply #115 on: July 01, 2012, 09:15:23 AM »
it's not pixel art
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« Reply #116 on: July 01, 2012, 09:34:21 AM »
SMB is hand drawn and then digitized, if I'm not mistaken? It can make for some beautiful graphics, but it's not pixel art.

Everything on Henk Nieborg's website is so beautiful. I wonder if he's working on anything new these days?
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« Reply #117 on: July 01, 2012, 09:43:11 AM »
I don't know how to address this issue. Technically speaking it's pixel art, but its not. It wasn't put together pixel by pixel, but that being said, lots of pixel art isn't.
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« Reply #118 on: July 01, 2012, 02:41:03 PM »
Super Meat Boy's art is drawn with the vector art tools in Flash. It's not pixel art, and it's not digitized hand drawn.
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« Reply #119 on: July 01, 2012, 02:47:23 PM »
Quote from: shig on July 01, 2012, 08:52:06 AM
Fake "retro" graphics are pretty bad, but there are other styles that are even worse like Meat Boy's style

Honestly between the art styles of Super Meat Boy and "minimalist" 6x6 pixel characters scaled up 8x (or, if you want, Seiklus) I'd probably take the former any day. Both styles don't look very good, but at least the former has a bit more effort put into environment designs (even if characters are awful.)

Also, I think I've said this before somewhere but re: Henk Nieborg it should be regarded as a crime against art that he's essentially been sentenced to work on handheld/phone shovelware or average-at-best WayForward games for the rest of his career.

EDIT: Also, In the Hunt. One of the prettiest looking 2D games I've seen but no one ever mentions it.
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