What is Reddit's opinion of FEZ (by POLYTRON)?

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For anyone who doesn't understand the reference, this is from the game FEZ!

"FEZ is a game developed by POLYTRON. In it, you play as Gomez, a 2D creature living in what he believes is a 2D world. Until a strange and powerful artifact reveals to him the existence of a mysterious third dimension!"

As a pixel artist myself, the main problem I have with Auro's art style is that, while still technically pixel art, it has such a high resolution and large color palette that it might as well not be pixel art. It ends up looking like the shitty end of the non-pixel art spectrum and not the top end of the pixel art spectrum as it should.

Personally, I enjoy pixel art that embraces its pixeliness. Every single individual pixel should have meaning. When you get to the resolution that Auro has, you start getting things that clearly look like multi-color gradients. That's when you start having problems. It's one thing to fake a gradient with 2-color dithering. It's another thing entirely to have 5-6 shades of the same color in a row forming a gradient (which I can clearly see that Auro does).

Contrary to what some people think, the lower the resolution is, the harder it is to create good pixel art. Think about it. You have fewer resources (pixels, colors) to represent the same amount of information. Great pixel art manages to pull off life-like animations even at low resolution.

A few games with exceptional lower-resolution pixel art include:

• Crawl
• Hyper Light Drifter
• Fez

FEZ.

> Fez is an indie puzzle-platform video game developed by Polytron Corporation and published by Trapdoor. The player-character Gomez receives a fez that reveals his two-dimensional world to be one of four sides of a three-dimensional world.

Recommend /r/shouldIbuythisgame subreddit.

I would recommend ~~FTL~~ I mean Limbo. It is short puzzle platformer game. It is about a boy who travels unnerving hostile place in order to find his sister.

I was going to recommend Fez but it doesn't seem to support Polish language. It isn't text heavy so may be you could help her?

I would also recommend Bird Story, an adventure game with simple narrative (no text if I recall correctly) about a boy and a bird.

As far as I know, the game site wasn't down for long, it was the company site that took the hit (and still isn't up).

As for the "laser-checked", I wouldn't treat it as nothing more than an easter egg, it was there since the very beginning

Like Fez?

I agree with /u/jackmott that Unity is the best option. Working those cameras though to get what you want... Gl with that. Making 3D models that have good-looking silhouettes from all those orthoraphic angles will be a trick for sure.

FEZ! http://fezgame.com

An innovative platformer that combines 2D and 3D in a unique way. Very atmospheric weekend morning vibes, with interesting puzzles and a majestic soundtrack.

• <strong>Rune Factory 4</strong> for the 3DS. All-around feel-good game with LOTS to do. Farming, fighting (cute monsters), friendships, waifus, crafting, town management, and a nice story, all in a cozy world with gorgeous graphics.

• Thomas Was Alone. Lots of feels + funs + sweet soundtrack. Story gets very bittersweet near the end.

• <strong>Fez</strong>. Beautiful and highly original.

Let me know if PC/Mac games are okay and I'll post a lot more

Ever played the Paper Mario games? Fez takes that idea and runs with it. It's not just camera control, it's how it mixes 2D and 3D space: whenever you rotate the camera, depth is removed and objects that were far off in the distance when viewed from one angle, will now be in line with each other on a flat plane ;)

You can see it on the game's website. So it has some really fresh and clever mechanics, all in some sweet artwork and music, with lots of little touches like the language and everything.