The new art style for the still-in-beta game SpyParty is a paragon of taste. SpyParty is a game where you must hide in plain sight and engage in psychological sleuthing to figure out who the other spies are. It also involves massive amounts of meta-gaming and high-level brain manipulation on the level of a John le Carré novel. The new character designs, by John Cimino, look like real people without distracting us with photorealism. Chris Hecker describes how they decided on the “timeless” part of their style: – – – It’s important to me that the game’s visual design be timeless, not retro, not futuristic, but ambiguous,…