The Most Beautiful 2D Sprite Games of All Time Let's celebrate the simple beauty of sprite-based games.

With several games getting successful HD-2D remakes, it opens the door for the following open-world titles to receive their own upgrade.

The game’s sprite layering also helped environments feel deep without ever leaving the 2D plane, from the crumbling walls of Sigma’s fortress to the rain-slicked rooftops of the opening stage.

As clarified by CoffeeRacoon, the starter Pokémon Sprigatito, Quaxly, and Fuecoco have been realised by altering the sprites for Purrloin, Ducklett, and Totodile from Gen 5.

What's especially unique about this game is that it's played in both 2D and 3D. A video posted to X/Twitter by @ JakeSucky showcases firsthand how the game runs.

In this video, you will learn how to make a basic Android game in Unreal in just 7 minutes. You'll learn about core concepts like Actors, Flipbooks, and more.

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 ...

The 3D worlds are wrapped in pixelated textures for consistency with the character sprites, while the lighting seats the 2D characters believably in the scene without emphasizing their flatness.

Plus, the controls aren't nearly as tight as some other Sonic titles and the amount of space that character sprites take up has been a big hangup critics have had with the game.

How a new emulator generates 3D scenes from 2D NES games The shape detection algorithms behind the intriguing 3DNES project.