Game Preview: Voxatron - voxel-based, destructible environment, 8bit soundtrack
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#2awesome, I look forward to trying it out.
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#3This looks surprisingly fun!
It's funny how different a voxel-based game looks to my eyes than a 3d-pixel game. I suppose the voxels offer a lot less resolution right now, but they just seem to work in a different way. I wonder if they will feel more or less engaging in 3d than a triangle-mesh type game.
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#4The perspective is absolutely brilliant. I love it. I feel stupid for not thinking of it.
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#5Wow. Great example of turning a limitation as a strong aesthetic. Can't wait to try it out!
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#6Very cool graphics. The explosions are awesome!
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#7I wonder what it is that makes 8-bit music so compelling. Just nostalgia?
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#8Want one. Now.
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#9I wonder what it is that makes 8-bit music so compelling. Just nostalgia?
It's more than that I think. 8-bit music began as a poor, low-fi imitation of existing music forms for electronic games, because it was all that was possible given the hardware of the time. 8-bit music has been rediscovered by enthusiasts and independent artists, initially due to nostalgia, and that has led to a lot of innovation, exploration, and discovery. Discovery that 8-bit music doesn't have to be merely an imitation of something else any more than a synthesizer has to imitate a piano or an electric guitar has to imitate an acoustic guitar.
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#10I wonder what it is that makes 8-bit music so compelling. Just nostalgia?
Perhaps I'm a bit jaded, but I'm not terribly sure that it's that compelling, it's just experiencing a lot of popularity now (after a steady push for years prior).
There's many reasons for the current success though, the nostalgia, the gimmick (they're making that with a gameboy! omg!), it's generally really agreeable music to most anyone (ie: safe, passive). Etc.
I don't imagine it sticking around in any significant capacity over time, of course there will always be the devotees, and we'll continue to see elements of it in mainstream pop music.
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