The fighting game stages of the '90s offered beautiful and often overlooked backdrops to some of gaming's greatest battles.

The background visual gives a 3D effect, but the game’s sprites are definitely very solidly in 2D land. As we’ll see, that wasn’t good enough for [James]. The basic concept relies on a pair ...

animated sprites, background designs, and intelligent non-playable characters. CEO Lisha Li, who founded the company in 2019 and who holds a Ph.D. in machine learning from UC Berkeley, hosts a ...

The sprites were then prepared and exported ... and simply did so by asking it a prompt like: Game asset, 2d Cartoon Style ...

While clearly taking cues from Pokémon, this portion of Dome-King Cabbage combined pixelated 2D sprites with 3D backgrounds, a 2.5D effect seen in modern-retro titles like Octopath Traveler.

These guys are 2D shapes and 2D shapes are everywhere. Shapes have sides and corners and are completely flat, like a drawing on a piece of paper. Circles don’t have corners and have got just one ...

As with previous 2D consoles, the DS had several screen modes complete with hardware-accelerated support for moving, scaling, rotating, and reflecting up to four background layers. This made it ...

While McDonald's Sprite trends on Twitter yet again, a franchise owner and a sensory scientist explain why the lemon-lime soda seems to hit differently. McDonald’s Sprite memes have electrified ...

One thing about me? I'm a Sprite girlie through and through. I love pretty much all soda (much to my dentist's dismay), but there's something about a crispy Sprite straight outta the fountain that ...

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pokémon Emerald for the GBA, 130 artists have collabrated on a project to redraw the sprites for all 386 Pokémon included in the game (thanks, gamesradar).