While Atari dabbled with vector graphics by way of Tempest and the Star Wars arcade game, most games were assembled on grids. Oftentimes, the results were beautiful. We still admire sprite-based ...

Witness how video game graphics are created and what makes them look so realistic. From simple 2D sprites to fully immersive ...

Starting in the late ‘70s, SNK pumped out dozens and dozens of vividly detailed 2D arcade games, most of them in the company’s famous multi-game Neo Geo arcade cabinets. While most of the ...

Apple's new Sprite Kit development framework aims to make it easier to create 2D arcade style games for both iOS 7 mobile devices and the Mac desktop, and hints at a future strategy for games on ...