Pixel art always relates into players’ minds to nostalgia and retro-vibed video games, but the potential of this medium assumed a new form during the last decade creating a new way game artists can express visual languages and game design approaches 🎮 Starting from the pixel, the ways it can be shaped to and the study of Japanese sprite artists work, pixel art can be a powerful device for designers to add to their visual tool belt during game development process ☝️
Multiplayer games are indeed one of the most involving and addictive gaming experiences you could offer to anyone. Everything is simply more funny if you can challenge your friends! 🎮 Although nowadays Unity is hugely simplifying game development, when talking about making a real-time multiplayer game there are still some non-trivial concepts and different patterns to deal with ☝️ We will explore some of the “quirks and features” that Unity offers to the developers in support of this task, from the ready to use Matchmaker down to bit-a-bit messages serialization 👾 If you wanna create the next Fortnite, this is the talk for ya!
Moving pixels on someone else's screen: introduction to Unity networking from Giovanni Frigo & Massimo Frasson