Making real pixel art games is surprisingly challenging using modern engines. When character moves just 1px in 1/60s, you can't use standard delta time simulation / presentation and expect smooth results. Here is what I did for Inversion Day, to make it perfect (at least where it was possible). inversionday.com/blog/fixed-…

I added normal maps for background tiles. A bit of depth added. Do you like it, or not worth it?

It’s very tempting to make the lights move when the lighting is computed fully in real time.

Each surface emits smoke. So when you create ground and remove it later, you can see the outlines of what was there.

Lights hanging from ropes are cool, but I’m not sure they’ll have any use beyond the visuals. And that’s probably not ideal. Everything should have some purpose, right? :) #gamedev #unity

I accidentally turned off the character rendering, and he is still visible thanks to the smoke interaction and shadow casting. Would be cool to use this for some secret stuff.

The demo of Inversion Day is on steam finally. It doesn't contain anything from the full game. All levels were made just for it, so no spoilers :) There are quite few secrets in it and 100% it is not that easy. Let me know if you manage to get to the full end.

I implemented basic rope physics for some cables in Inversion Day. But I’m not sure if there will be actually any use for them.

The smoke simulation looks pretty cool even for the logo. I'm working on trailer for demo and this could be the last scene. Rendered realtime in unity of course. 320x180 with CRT simulation effect on top.

Testing too much smoke, moving too fast.

Because the game is rendered in 320x180 resolution, I can run the whole fluid simulation without scaling it down.