Comments on: inkdick: may 09 2009 pixel beauty

By: dio

dio — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:06:00 +0000

i prefer the oldies. i never went beyond playstation. i’d stick with the old final fantasies, sagas, dragon quests, and good old tetris.

i dont think we should excessively orient art to being minimalistic so as to stimulate the greatest imagination. theres just a right and wrong way or proportion in the use of graphics to convey an experience, and propose a wolrd of choices, challenges… without being just repetitive, endlessly killing…

By: Tetis

Tetis — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:03:00 +0000

less = more ?

By: SGYDK

SGYDK — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:53:18 +0000

I’m pretty sure this is the reason most games I play on a regular basis, or at all, were from the early ninties. Pixels just have that quality to them that realistic graphics dont give. They can make anything either the cutest or scariest thing ever, but realistic games just cant do that as well.

By: elliott

elliott — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:49:08 +0000

surely you read diesel sweeties? http://www.dieselsweeties.com/

By: geekbot

geekbot — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:17:23 +0000

Ha ha. You talk about the Dreamcast like it was the Sega Genesis of The Master System. You make it sound really old, which is funny, because in retrospect, it was the first of the new 3D gaming consoles to offer really pretty 3D graphics. When my friends played Soul Calibur the first time, we felt we were finally getting to play an arcade quality fighting game in our living room.

In the end, I suppose it’s all relative to the time you first started playing games. Translation: I am old. >.>

And I think “There is Beauty in Pixels” would make a great title for a an art gallery exhibit featuring nothing but amazing pixel art.

Somebody get on that! :)

By: Neil Jam

Neil Jam — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:51:27 +0000

Ever see Kochalka’s “low-rez” art style? Looks kinda like that 3rd panel but I think it was done entirely on the computer. There was a “low-rez” Magic Boy story in the SPX anthology “EXPO 2001″ (I’m pretty sure it is in that volume). At the time I thought it was very cool.

By: The Great Mr. Chibi

The Great Mr. Chibi — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:33:42 +0000

Dude, Jedi Power Battles is great, if only for one reason: Plo Koon. Dude was *tits*.

…and my two Dreamcast games were Power Battles and Phantasy Star Online– though I rented the hell out of Shenmue back in the day.

By: Anthony J

Anthony J — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:37:11 +0000

One of my favorite games is around 15 years old. That seems to be back when people were more about how to make something really cool and exciting to play as opposed to just pretty pictures. Part of what I like about old games and comics is what’s not there: the imagination fills in the rest and makes it all that much better.

Love the comic, by the way. Been reading for about three to five months now. Keep up the great work. :D

By: maxevry

maxevry — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:03:25 +0000

Here here! Classic 8 and 16-bit graphics do the same thing for me. When I played my old-ass Atari 2600 I knew it was just a few blocks firing straight lines at other piles of boxes, but in my mind it was a cool spaceship blowin’ up asteroids. Seeing a cool spaceship for reals takes the fun and imagination out of it.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:49:22 +0000

Weird, I just played a whole bunch of games on a sega at a friends today - plain, not dreamcast though, ren and stimpy, sonic, beavis and butthead. I agree. I sucked though.