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Yes there are multiple ways to approach art style for games. For many small devs pixel art is a good fit.

I think this boils down to you just not liking pixel art, which is fine, but you're going a step further after getting answers and just acting like the answers aren't good enough. Pixel art is efficient to make and many people find it aesthetically pleasing.

SSTF @lemmy.world 1d ago

Balatro is, as far as I know, a single person dev team and this is their first game as far as I know.

Hades was made by an established studio that has been around for 17 years and has 25 employees.

Again, a lot of people pick pixel art because they can make all the assets look unified relatively easily. If you've ever come across a game with lots of storebought assets made by different artists you'll know how jarring it is to have wildly inconsistent assets.

They could pick something else, but if it has an extra layer of complexity to getting the assets looking right and unified they may choose not to. You might think "Oh how much art can there be." and the answer for a solo dev is "Oh no too much." especially when they are also designing and programming.

And if you don't care for pixel art there's tons and tons and tons of games without it, so you can go play them instead without it affecting you.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 1d ago

I don't think it's a counter point to point at a non-pixel art game. Obviously non-pixel art indie games exist, but the person above was explaining what makes pixel are desirable for the devs that go that direction.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 1d ago

Half Life, Rise of Nations, and Call of Duty

None of these are indie games. While the teams were a lot smaller than modern AAA, they weren't one or two people making a game in their spare time the way many indie games get made.

Pixel art games are popular for reasons including being much easier for solo devs or small teams to create. It cuts out a ton of work like rigging models, in many cases dealing with physics, complex lighting, and all sorts of those things. Depends on the game of course, but in many cases a lot of that stuff is either a non-isssue or way simplified. All art assets can have a unified look and quality without taking forever to make.

Games can also be lightweight on needed specs to run. Again helpful for solo devs or small teams which might not be optimization experts, and it means much less of having to figure out how to help people having issues on all sorts of hardware combos.

Pixel art can be easily readable on small screens pretty easily, which is good for things like playing on a Steamdeck. Again, plenty of non-pixelart games are readable on screens, but it is certainly easy to do it in that style.

This isn't to say non-pixel art indie games don't exist. There's tons and tons of them. I'm pretty sure something like 50 trillion indie games are released on Steam every picosecond. There's plenty that do the late 90s-early 2000s aesthetic. Or you can just play old games on Steam, especially ones that have gotten official or unofficial quality of life improvements since their release.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 1d ago

Then they can clarify it for themselves. Talking about actors working in voice acting industry, in TV production, means adults more often than children doing the work. Not always, but adults are more common than children. It is a reasonable assumption, and if it is wrong, again- the poster can clarify it on their own.

Hey, I’m coming in and matching your energy.

I was being civil and didn't insult anyone's opinion or "lol" at what they were saying until you showed up doing just that. We can look at the thread and see exactly where I started having bad energy and it was after you came in acting like an ass. So in actual fact, I'm matching your energy as it is exceedingly rare for me to insult other users, in fact it might be a first for me here, but you managed to be special.

crazy assumption to make

Fuck off. Seriously. You're just coming in and making an opposite assumption based on the exact same vague statement and acting smug about it.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 1d ago

That’s why young boys are usually voiced by women

Not a word in there about children doing the voices. If they wanted to clarify a supposed ambiguity, they could have done it themselves.

You coming in and very confidently declaring exactly what they meant despite nobody talking about children doing children's voices, and giving your "correction" it in a condescending way:

What the heck are you talking about?

That’s a wild way to misunderstand them lol.

That makes you the asshole. Be gone.

SSTF @lemmy.world 1d ago

Normally when I see that, it is a signal to me that the show as intended ended but it was so popular/lucrative that moneypeople demanded it keep going, so the writers have to take an already concluded story and and un-conclude it. I'm sure shows in this situation have worked, but I'm struggling to think of one.

I suppose certain animes, especially shonen essentially do this, but they are designed from the outset to be nearly endless if successful. I'm thinking about shows like Stranger Things which clearly had one intended season, and then four seasons of whipping together something to put on screen.

Like I disclaimed at the top, it is contextual to the type of show, but I get a Spidey-sense when a show essentially restarts. Even Stargate SG-1 did it near the end, and it was overall a pretty weak few seasons.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 1d ago

women’s voices tend to change less dramatically than men’s as they age.

Point to the child actor being discussed in this sentence.

SSTF @lemmy.world 1d ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AcQifPHcMLE&pp=ygUUc3dpc3MgdGFuayBzaW11bGF0b3I%3D

SSTF @lemmy.world 1d ago

That shark is so cute.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 1d ago

It runs in parallel with a show getting too many characters to handle. It accelerates the Flanderization of characters who don't have a lot to do. Stranger Things had that problem as well, with a far too bloated main cast by the end.