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1. Any example(s) of good looking 2.5 D platformers?

   

   Topic by fdfxd2 · Jan 2017 · Home› General Discussion

   After seeing Mighty No 9 I kinda gave up finding one. Of course I'm talking about good looking ones, doesn't have to be one that plays good.

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   Reply by Neox · Jan 2017 · Home› General Discussion

   well first of all, we just did the art, moon studios did the game and techside therefor. But simple and short, memory footprint. screensized spritesheets are damn huge and demanding. heck for the most part of the project i thought the moon studios coders are insane doing it all in sprites. it's just massive amounts of…

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   Reply by Neox · Jan 2017 · Home› General Discussion

   every character (besides the slugs) is 3d and then rendered to sprites. Ori is no exception to this. Ori just has more fps than most of the other characters. The decision was simply based on Ressources, when you have no 2d animator but a few kickass 3d animators the decision to do stuff in 3d is pretty straight forward.…

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   Reply by UltraLrod · Jan 2017 · Home› General Discussion

   Shadow Complex. my favorite reference when i can't remember of any other 2.5d platformers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmpNtDfdlwE

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   Reply by slipsius · Jan 2017 · Home› General Discussion

   ori!!! 

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   Reply by Tekoppar · Jan 2017 · Home› General Discussion

   @Neox out of curiosity what was the reason to go with 3D for Ori and having the rest be sprites?

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   Reply by MissMaddyTaylor · Jan 2017 · Home› General Discussion

   I'm working on a 2.5d platformer and we have a thread with some progress (not sure what you're looking to ref, but I hope it might help!) http://polycount.com/discussion/127439/blubber-busters-game-dev-blog/p8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOF0c69oxoU

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   Reply by RN · Jan 2017 · Home› General Discussion

   Child of Light (Ubisoft, 2014) (Same game engine as Rayman Legends, it's called UbiArt.)

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   Reply by Anchang-Style · Jan 2017 · Home› General Discussion

   Rad Rodgers looks really good, same with The Deer God which got a really cool art style. 

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    Reply by ZacD · Jan 2017 · Home› General Discussion

    INSIDE You don't really get the full effect in static screen shots, but the graphics, art design, and camera really work to serve the gameplay.