"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided."
- Brian Eno, 1996
I think everyone involved in low-fidelity game design knows exactly what he was talking about. It's the #pixelart and Quake engine visuals.
#retrogaming #gamedev #indiedev #lofi
Martin Christopher /
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