Official Off-Topic Thread

[HMC]

I had never heard of him until last month when me and my friends watched Paprika and then Millennium Actress the day after that. He died a week later.

[Dusty]

I got a game magazine in the mail yesterday as a promotional thing for Bestbuy, and it had a small "review" in it for Canabalt for the iPod/iPad that is kind of sad. Here's the excerpt:
"The graphics are blocky, but that's the intended style."
Can "blocky" even be used to describe pixel art at that resolution? When I think blocky pixel art I think all the way back to the Amiga and maybe even the NES, but the NES is stretching it. Otherwise blocky makes me think of a simplistic design, which Canabalt is not. This guy gives me the impression he's never really played a pixel-art game, but maybe I'm just jumping the gun. The rest of the review is positive, but that just stuck out(as well as, "This poor man's Mirror's Edge" since I don't feel two games having the same vague subject such as Parkour justify comparing them) to me.

[ptoing]

Gogo crappy review, I would say.

Also, Amiga art was im many cases not that blocky. Pal Amiga even had a higher resolution than DOS (320x256 in lores mode).

[9_6]

Well pixels kinda ARE, you know, blocks.

[Dusty]

Gogo crappy review, I would say.

Also, Amiga art was im many cases not that blocky. Pal Amiga even had a higher resolution than DOS (320x256 in lores mode).

Sorry, I meant Atari, heh.

And ya, pixels are blocks but that's why I mentioned resolution

[ptoing]

Well pixels kinda ARE, you know, blocks.

The degree of perceived blockiness can vary greatly tho.

[9_6]

Well pixels kinda ARE, you know, blocks.

The degree of perceived blockiness can vary greatly tho.

Sure, if I take my glasses off they turn into blurry kind of circle thingies.

[Helm]

Are you being sarcastic? You can make pixels look smoother by putting other pixels around them of variable luminescence.

[9_6]

As soon as you scale it up

http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt/

you see blocks.

There's no point in judging someone because they call pixel art blocky because, by nature, it gets scaled up on larger screens.
And then there are blocks. Unless there's some terrible bilinear filtering going on but that is besides the point.

[Dusty]

As soon as you scale it up

http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt/

you see blocks.

There's no point in judging someone because they call pixel art blocky because, by nature, it gets scaled up on larger screens.
And then there are blocks. Unless there's some terrible bilinear filtering going on but that is besides the point.

Sorry, I see nothing "blocky" about that in that resolution except the title screen. Sure, if you want to be picky and look reaaaaaaally close you can see the pixels, but that's true for everything you see on the average resolution screens.

I just don't agree with the view that every pixel-art game is blocky. That just seems uniformed.