What can be taken from the art of a videogame and still leave it intact?In the sense, I'm trying to ask, what's the 20% of a videogame in terms of art that creates 80% of the inmersion.It can't be shinny AAA shaders and 3D models because pixel shit

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Anonymous 01/16/19 (Wed) 00:02:56 4f79a3 No.16000280

What can be taken from the art of a videogame and still leave it intact?

In the sense, I'm trying to ask, what's the 20% of a videogame in terms of art that creates 80% of the inmersion.

It can't be shinny AAA shaders and 3D models because pixel shit can work as well.

We could reduce a videogame to something like DF or an ascii roguelike, but I wonder where's that sweet spot of minimalist art that has the 80% of pareto results.

Anonymous 01/16/19 (Wed) 00:08:22 926b16 No.16000289

16-bit

Anonymous 01/16/19 (Wed) 06:05:15 493db6 No.16001205

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i don't understand

Anonymous 01/16/19 (Wed) 06:12:56 9e093f No.16001220

>>16000280

Redo your thread, add a title in the subject field, and don't space your sentences too much/

Anonymous 01/16/19 (Wed) 07:16:34 19c3ca No.16001335

>>16000280

2004 was the sweetspot for game graphics. Everything is very simplistic, detailed just enough to be able to tell what you're looking at while retaining style and charm. It's not overly detailed and the modelers rely on art design and texture work instead of a ton of polygons. There isn't an overabundance of blurry bullshit and FXAA wasn't a thing. There are more unique environments because they're 'easier' to do and people were more willing to experiment. Unreal Tournament 2004 could have made multiple games using all of it's maps and locations.

Anonymous 01/16/19 (Wed) 07:16:57 19c3ca No.16001338

>>16001335

I also have no idea what the fuck OP is trying to say or ask so I just said this instead.

Anonymous 01/16/19 (Wed) 07:21:11 86c40d No.16001352

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>>16000280

what

Anonymous 01/16/19 (Wed) 07:22:35 65498b No.16001357

Nearly everything

Art in a game exists to contextualize abstract game mechanics in a way that is easily read by the player

You can, however, hit a brick wall when it comes to things like a 3D environment, but that's an issue of mechanic more than aesthetic

Anonymous 01/16/19 (Wed) 07:43:40 56fa8c No.16001407

>>16000280

I genuinely don't know what you're asking. Come back when you finish your ESL course.

Anonymous 01/16/19 (Wed) 09:01:18 65f5c2 No.16001562

9 hours later I think I understand what this thread is about. OP is asking about what makes a game's visuals distinctive and what you can strip away without distorting that distinction.

For example you can remove bloom from a game and lighting effects and it'll still look like a game.

That last part about 80% of pareto results I still have no idea what it's supposed to mean.

Anonymous 01/16/19 (Wed) 13:42:11 000000 No.16001961

>>16000280

>Muh immersion

Games are about gameplay and playing to win.

Anonymous 01/16/19 (Wed) 13:48:08 eb95fe No.16001974

>>16001338

>>16001335

I'd say it's more like 2002-2003, but yeah, mostly agreed. UT2K4 looked pretty

good.

>>16001205

He's trying to ask what's the most important elements of art design in games, basically.

Anonymous 01/16/19 (Wed) 13:56:17 6c8816 No.16001991

>>16000280

>>16001974

Videogames are not art therefore they have no art design elements that are to be considered as important as if so in the hypothetical occassion when it's taken away it changes the very nature of the product itself.

tl;dr

shit thread,OP sucks cock,lurk som moar

Anonymous 01/16/19 (Wed) 13:58:52 f5f815 No.16001996

>>16000280

Here's a 1D game in the URL bar. Is this minimalist enough? probablycorey.com/url-hunter/

Anonymous 01/16/19 (Wed) 14:13:55 eb95fe No.16002026

>>16001991

>I could have a discussion, but instead I'll be pedantic

Okay, he's asking about the most important elements of aesthetic design in games, then.