Art
Visual development: style, palette, and the craft behind how a game looks.
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Color Psychology in Game Design: How Palettes Shape Emotion
How color palettes steer player emotion: peer-reviewed research on saturation and brightness, palette reads of six games, and why our cozy sim runs warm.
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Why Hand-Drawn Games Are Beating AAA Graphics
Hand-drawn games like Cuphead, Hollow Knight, and Hades keep beating photorealism. The real reasons: cost, readability, identity, and art that never ages.