These games all have an art style that seems like they came from the same developer, but that’s not the case at all. I wasn’t sure how to categorize them at first, but I thought well they are black and white games, so I expanded:
11. A Winding Path
12. Geometric Sniper
13. It’s Kooky
14. My Hidden Things
15. Pato Box
16. Shift Quantum
17. The Return of the Obra Dinn* (the white is actually a light blue)
18. Silt
19. White Knight
While the second list is also black and white it’s not really the same art style.
Special mention:
20. Batman Telltale Series*
21. Batman Enemy Within*
*(“Shadow” DLC required, with small splashes of color)
Anyways, as for that first list, you can now add “UnderDungeon” to it.
I should say that some of those games also add an optional splash of red to the black and white, but it can usually be turned off.
So I don’t know. Is this a sort of weird sub-genre? Can anyone see where I am going with this or I am just being too observational?
itotron
Okay, the art style is called “1-bit.”
This refers to a bit being on “1” or off “0.”
In this case, the “bit” is either black or white.
I found one more game for the list:
0. “Null Drifter”
It actually calls itself a 1-bit game. So that answers that.
itotron
I have another one: “Apple Slash”
This is a good example of one being black and white, but also using red as an accent color. (I’ll still allow this because it’s seems to go with 1-bit art style just by the eyeball test.)
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This is interesting. I have (for some reason) been keeping tabs on games like these, a sort of unclassfied art genre of game:
1. Downwell
2. Switch ‘n’ Shoot
3. Cecconoid
4. Astronite
5. Binarystar Infinity
6. Buddy Simulator 1984
7. Gato Roboto
8. Gum +
9. Minit
10. Vylan
These games all have an art style that seems like they came from the same developer, but that’s not the case at all. I wasn’t sure how to categorize them at first, but I thought well they are black and white games, so I expanded:
11. A Winding Path
12. Geometric Sniper
13. It’s Kooky
14. My Hidden Things
15. Pato Box
16. Shift Quantum
17. The Return of the Obra Dinn* (the white is actually a light blue)
18. Silt
19. White Knight
While the second list is also black and white it’s not really the same art style.
Special mention:
20. Batman Telltale Series*
21. Batman Enemy Within*
*(“Shadow” DLC required, with small splashes of color)
Anyways, as for that first list, you can now add “UnderDungeon” to it.
I should say that some of those games also add an optional splash of red to the black and white, but it can usually be turned off.
So I don’t know. Is this a sort of weird sub-genre? Can anyone see where I am going with this or I am just being too observational?
Okay, the art style is called “1-bit.”
This refers to a bit being on “1” or off “0.”
In this case, the “bit” is either black or white.
I found one more game for the list:
0. “Null Drifter”
It actually calls itself a 1-bit game. So that answers that.
I have another one: “Apple Slash”
This is a good example of one being black and white, but also using red as an accent color. (I’ll still allow this because it’s seems to go with 1-bit art style just by the eyeball test.)