Comments on: Minimalistic Art Style, So It Shall Be

By: fabiomoreiradasilva

fabiomoreiradasilva — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:58:21 +0000

I agree, PvsZ has good graphics. Actually Goo has beaultiful style too. But they are not “AAA ultrarealistic” and are excelent games for me. My point is: the graph is one thing, not all the game experience.

If your graphics look crappy, or not so “wow”, the game must have other attributes (sounds, fun, etc) to “win” the player. Even if the game is a child.

By: Juuso

Juuso — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:33:33 +0000

@fabio: Plants vs Zombs have great 2D graphics in my opinion. Crayon Physics… it’s “different”. Hard to categorize that :)

By: Juuso

Juuso — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:31:48 +0000

That’s interesting! (You’ve spoiled them! ;))

Totally different view on this: I saw some kids (like 4 year old) playing some crappy looking “teach yourself something” where they had this ugly looking “I spent 2 minutes drawing this in MS paint” style art. They seemed to like it :)

By: fabiomoreiradasilva

fabiomoreiradasilva — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:41:53 +0000

I would say that there is a lot of buyers that want a fun game, not exactly a ultra realistic approach (which is not bad of course). That´s what we believe as indie studio.

Anyway, just playing awarded titles as w.goo, Plants vs Zombies (juuso may like this) and Crayon Phisics, we can see that is possible to make good games without a fantastic graph.

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:34:32 +0000

I’ve no doubt that Tobias is right. First-gen gamers like pixel art games, my kids think they look crappy.

By: Juuso

Juuso — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:43:19 +0000

@Jake: I don’t care who buys… ;)

@Tobias: Yeh, good point. Unfortunately no can do with this data :)

By: Tobias Scheuer

Tobias Scheuer — Fri, 14 May 2010 06:46:21 +0000

I would be curious about what relation the poll results have to voter’s age… I would guess that older players tend more to buy pixel art than younger players do, but that’s just a wild guess, of course.

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:59:23 +0000

Don’t forget the poll is heavily swayed by the type of audience your blog attracts ;-)