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Gerel: Against The Corvus Empire - a pixel art video game by CGS grads

CG Spectrum

Through this unique online network, Alan connected with Advanced Concept Art Course graduate Dogyeong (Do) Lee and Game Design Course graduate Alexios Vasilakis who both joined the Overwrite Interactive team. Currently in production, Gerel: Against the Corvus Empire is a 2D pixel art side-scrolling platformer with Metroidvania elements.

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Artist Cassie Simpson on navigating Life, three University Majors and Work 

PreMortem.Games

What caught my attention wasn’t just her confidence on the panel but the fact that she was not only a student pursuing three majors at Wits University she was also the Lead Concept artist at Chroma Pixel Games , a game studio based in Zambia. Animation was my first choice because I wanted to do cinematic animation.

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The Role of Computer Science in Video Games

Game Designing

The days of pixelated graphics are long gone. In fact, some of today’s games are so realistic that gameplay looks like cinematic sequences. This is a far cry from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) that came out in 1990 with its 256×224 resolution and 8×8-pixel graphics.

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Making Lucid with Eric Manahan

Game Dev Unchained

This time, the narrative revolves around Eric Manahan , the former architect who found solace in pixelated characters and captivating storylines. “I loved the concepts, the design. The pixelated game wasn’t just beautiful, but it was also a product of a single developer. The allure seems to be universal.

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How to become a 3D Lighting Artist

CG Spectrum

Annotations by Edu Martin from their blog ' Lighting Pixels ') Point lighting Point lights (sometimes called omni lights) are similar to spotlights, but emit light in all directions from a small, single point — like the light you get from candles, fairy lights, or a firefly. Three-point lighting in action in Disney's Tangled.

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That Lonesome Valley as cowboy coin crusher

Radiator Blog

CONTENT WARNING: This post contains discussion of gay sex acts and some screenshots with obscured pixel art nudity. Back in 2012, John Mix Meyer wrote "Women aren’t vending machines you put kindness coins into until sex falls out" to critique proto-PUA concepts like the friendzone. If you care about spoilers, play it first.

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