How did I not hear a long gone until Gamescom has been opening the night?

At the end of July, a viral clip generated by five -second AI. In terms of first person, she depicted a 3D perspective of the fantasy world of pixels. In front of the figure, it stretches through a long road through the city as a dark, grim castle emerges in the distance. The character walks on the road, the torch in one hand and the sword in the other.

There was quite a lot of Hubbub about GIF, and many people said they would like to play a game that looked exactly like this. Never mind they are Already games that look like this – it's basically a nicer dagger. The account that published a clip apparently launched a game studio to inspire the game with this GIF generated Midjourney, but in fact it does not actually use AI in workflows because the tools are not yet sniffing. Go for it!

It is strange that it has received such a huge reaction from Twitter users, given that there are interesting pixel art projects everywhere. I am their big fan and they always attract my eye. For a long time, an independent game funded by Outerloth, which appeared on the pre-show Gamecom's Opend Night Live, hit me as a kind of game that hit all the same notes as this AI viral game, except that it is real.

Long gone is the unique art game pixel

Pixel art a man standing in a dilapidated living room.

As a big suction cup for the Point-and-Click genre, he sold me almost immediately. Her post-apocalyptic, zombie-ground 2.5D world is beautiful and fresh, overgrown plants painted by abandoned neighborhoods around you green. The player's character must distinguish puzzles and platform through dangerous streets and there is no fight-always zombie is a puzzle.

What I am most interested in was the way the perspective moves during the game. The camera moves and changes perspective when interacting with the world, and when you enter the houses to clean up objects, the world becomes 3D, allowing you to move freely through space. It's wonderful.

I'd rather play something real than I wish something fake

Pixel Art of A Man aiming a weapon at the zombies as it stretches over the fence.

It is also, to be fair, not exactly the same as the viral clip. It is not the first person, it is in a completely different environment and it is a real game developed by real people and not just Vibey GIF generated in AI engine. But that made me think about how many developers are looking for new and new ways to transform pixel art that many consider to be an outdated artistic style because of its history in the early development of games, something that feels new and contemporary.

Personally-and maybe I would be biased because I am anti-ai-think that it is much more interesting to see the finished product that innovates on the typical style of pixels than to see Midjourney Gif, which could theoretically be a sick video game if someone really thought it was possible to do it. I do not know, maybe we should support India Devs, which are in the production process of great things instead of offering the financing of random people who are not even dev. did Put the right challenge in the AI generative model.

Anyway, you can go away for a long time.