And with iOS 7—and Mavericks—comes Sprite Kit, which contains everything developers need to write a 2D game from scratch, without having to worry about OpenGL.

Sprite-Based Game Art Is Far from Overdone Indie developers love sprites, but each studio has a unique thumbprint that keeps the retro style fresh.

The game’s sprite layering also helped environments feel deep without ever leaving the 2D plane, from the crumbling walls of Sigma’s fortress to the rain-slicked rooftops of the opening stage.

It becomes pretty clear early on in the footage that this mod turns the enemies and objects in the world from 2D sprites into 3D voxels.

Everything is laid out as it was in the 1996 Game Boy originals, but there’s no sign of what a Pokémon battle might look like – although considering HD-2D games still use 2D sprites for their ...

The process of modeling a 3D object from a series of 2D images is a very well-studied computer vision problem called multiview stereo reconstruction.

The game has been remade in “HD-2D,” a kind of style template within Unreal Engine that Square Enix created, alongside developer Acquire, for 2018’s superb retro RPG Octopath Traveler.

The game also uses a homebrewed 2D lighting engine that produces some great results without using any 3D rendering. The revamping of iconic 2D-sprite animation is, in my opinion, a worthy endeavor ...

The game’s sprite layering also helped environments feel deep without ever leaving the 2D plane, from the crumbling walls of Sigma’s fortress to the rain-slicked rooftops of the opening stage.