There’s something very special about the process of old-fashioned, frame-by-frame, 2D animation. In the old days, the only way to get your animated character to wave his or her arm was to spend hours ...

Animation and gaming, kindred worlds from the start, have converged in various ways over the decades. The industries have shared writers, designers, characters, franchises. Technology, too: recently, ...

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Look, we need to talk about something that’s been bugging me for a while now. Square Enix goes and creates this absolutely gorgeous HD 2D art style that makes everyone’s jaws drop, and then what ...

There’s something undeniably magical about 2D games. They don’t need hyper-realistic lighting engines or million-dollar motion capture to leave players awestruck. Instead, they paint their worlds with ...

Square Enix has nailed the HD-2D graphical style with titles like Octopath Traveler, Triangle Strategy, and now the upcoming The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales. But I don’t think we’ve ...