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Minecraft is now being used to recreate impressionist paintings

Because of its nature as a sandbox game closer to LEGO than anything else, Minecraft has been used to construct entire cities from famous works of fiction, blocky versions of real-world places, and even a bipedal war robot made of slime and TNT cannons, but it isn’t unheard of to see 2D art recreated with Minecraft’s palette of colorful cubes, too. a moody, abstract work rendered in the bulky cubes of Minecraft  With the freedom of Minecraft’s Creative mode, players have made 2D art ranging from retro-style pixel art sculptures to this intricate “painting” of Kerrigan from StarCraft, which took 23 weeks and…

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Impressionism goes goth in the roguelike Children of Morta

Well, this is … unexpected. Just yesterday I wrote about the influx of absurdly, lushly animated dark-fantasy pixel-art games, and here comes Children of Morta, which is like the apotheosis of the form. Its two-minute trailer starts with something I’ve not really seen before: a landscape which seems to be finding the middle ground between impressionist Dutch painting and pixel art. And then it goes black-metal as shit: storm clouds roll in, cursing the scene, a man jogs through a bleary forest, a family idles grimly around a fireplace. The actual game looks as much Zelda dungeon-crawly as it does Hyper Light Drifter sumptious…