I thought this game was well known but I haven't seen almost any mentions of it recently. It's very weird for a FOSS enthusiast not to advertise one of the best open-source games of all time so here I am trying to make it spoken about again.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

It looks like the "good enough" placeholder art that devs put in before they get around to hiring an actual artist. It's serviceable to understand what things are and what's happening, but there's no style to it.

[–] DWin@feddit.uk 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I personally disagree, I really love the dramatic sprite style they've gone with. Everything's so hyper industrial with lovely details when you zoom in.

[–] Rukthag@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

It’s also so wonderfully mechanical and smoothly animated. Might not hit for those that didn’t grow up with similar styles or something.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It is my understanding that Factorio's art is 3D modeled and rigged, and then 2D animation frames are captured from that so the game doesn't have to actually render 10,000 inserters every tick.

[–] DWin@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah that's awesome, but now I'm wishing I could take a peak at the 3d versions running and explore them a bit.

It would also explain why they all have the same visual vibe of the ancient dancing baby gif haha

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A lot of 2D games made their art that way; earlier I called Factorio "Age of Empires with a 3 pack a day habit" because AoE's graphics are 2D sprites made from 3D graphics. I mean, think about it, would you rather draw the little villager walking frame by frame by hand in a pixel art editor in 8 or 16 different angles depending on if the model is symmetrical, or model and animate it in 3D and then frame capture it from several angles? Hell there's probably tools to do the latter automatically. I bet Blender can just do that.

[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah you can even postprocess it to be pretty similar to pixel art from the render

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

blender can do anything with a little python

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

... Did anyone really think 2D pixel art is rendered in real-time from individually animated 3D 9bjects?

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

there’s no style to it

I mean, it depends on how you are defining "style", but, to avoid being pedantic, I actually think that it does have a style, and a very recognizable and unique style at that. It has a very maximalist, industrial, gritty look to it that I love. Everything is so hyper-detailed in model design, texture, and animation. It all fits a very specific aesthetic. It's completely fine if that aesthetic is not to your taste, but I think it's disingenuous to say that it has no style at all.

[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

This ia exactly on point. I have never played Factorio but can recognize it from any screenshot from its style.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Mindustry looks like one of those games you'd find on those "1001 Games!" cds back in the 90s thatbalways had the Hugo Whodunit games and the shareware version of Wolfenstein 3D. It has that MS Paint look to it.