Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game
89 points by PaulHoule
by progforlyfe
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I grew up on the small 6 inch 1 bit Mac SE display so the art style has a special place in my heart. Sadly I'm too "dumb" to fully enjoy the game as it requires a lot of attention to detail -- amazing if you enjoy detective style puzzles! I still highly respect it.
by m12k
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If you find this interesting, you might also be interested in this video of someone diving even deeper into how to make the dither surface stable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqGaIMVuLs
by surfsvammel
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I absolutely loved this game. I still think about it often, the story and the characters. I wish there was more games like it.
Interesting read!
by rokkamokka
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I gave this game a shot but honestly the art style got in the way of the gameplay for me. Fun to read how much effort went into it
by paultendo
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What a fascinating deep dive. 2x with sphere mapping is my favourite - it starts to take on a sort of pointillism-like quality which gives all the objects (or maybe my brain) a sort of understanding of their texture.
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