Friday, April 18, 2014

News::Diehard GameFAN: Another Star Review

DHGF: Another Star started life as a potential entry into a minimalist competition to create a game using a single 128×128 pixel tile sheet to create a large world you can explore. To someone whos dabbled with modding before, most games these days dont even use texture files that small to cover one character let alone build an entire game around it, but thats how it used to be done back on games that ran on the NES and the Sega Master System, and Another Star most definitely has that old school feel to it while implementing a few options to keep these going for players not interested in a long grind but want to experience the game anyway. It plays fast and fun and its still amazing that a small tile sheet can generate an entire game world to explore. Lets take a look



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