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Why 2D game art is thriving in 2025, and how you can do it too

Something is enduring about pixel art that keeps drawing us back. A handful of coloured squares shouldn’t have much power, ...
vg247

Sprite-Based Game Art Is Far from Overdone

This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been ...
Engadget

Cave Story 3D to feature dimension-defying 2D sprite mode

Torn between your love of the original Cave Story's beautifully pixel-drawn sprites and your excitement for Cave Story 3D's complete reinvention of the game's hovering island-world? You can now have ...
Macworld

Sprite Kit, GLKit, and Scene Kit: How Apple is shaping game development

Buried in the avalanche of publicity surrounding the release of iOS 7 was the introduction of a new framework, called Sprite Kit, designed to help developers more easily and efficiently build 2D games ...
Metro

Want to see what Pokémon Red and Blue would look like as a HD-2D game?

We’d play this if it was real (pic: YouTube) A fan has recreated the original Pokémon game with the graphics from Octopath Traveler and it looks very impressive. There are plenty of indie games, and ...
AppleInsider

Apple's Sprite Kit framework targets games on iOS 7, OS X Mavericks & potentially Apple TV

Apple's new Sprite Kit development framework aims to make it easier to create 2D arcade style games for both iOS 7 mobile devices and the Mac desktop, and hints at a future strategy for games on Apple ...