Artistic Art Styles

Level 3 Games Design

Unit 78 Digital graphics for video games

Artistic Styles in video games

There are many different types of Artistic Styles in video games and i am going to show you some and what games they are used in.

Photo Realism

Photo Realism is where you try to make an image look real.
The game i chose to look over for this is Fire Watch because the game is based around a forest environment and i think it is sharp and has a very real atmosphere to the game and it makes me think that it is a real place the game is set.

The mood that this game creates is a calm one with lots of different places that you can explore for example there is a cave in the game that stands out and gives a completely different vibe to the forests in the game.

On a closer look this game can also be considered a Cel-Shaded game because of it art style but i think that it is more Photo Realistic because of the place it was set and the design of the trees make the game seem real.

Pixel

Pixel is manly used if games like platformers because it is used in 2D games.

The game i chose to look at is the old Mario games such as Super Mario 2 because it clearly shows that it is pixel art but as you can see it is not just a square because pixel art is not only squares and i think that Super Mario 2 shows this the best because you can clearly see all the different shapes that they have made using pixels.

The mood that Super Mario 2 creates a lite atmosphere and makes it seem happy.

Exaggeration

Exaggeration is for games that are animated in a way that makes it seem impossible like punching someone through a wall or flying it is manly used in animated games.
The game I chose is Dragon Ball Z Xenoverse because i think it is the perfect got to explain Exaggeration because it is a fighting game where you can fly and fight people and punch them through walls but this makes the game fun because it is based on the show Dragon Ball Z and if it wasn't like this the game wouldn't live up to the anime so people could get bored of it.
Because of the Exaggerated physics and art style it grabs your attention and can keep you hooked on the game.

Abstraction

Abstraction is to do with shapes.

The game I am doing for Abstraction is Tetris because it is a game all about shapes and how the shapes can fit together.

Tetris is a game about fitting shapes together so that you can create a line and when you do it takes the line off and you lose when the block is filled so you try to get as far as you can.

Tetris uses Abstraction so the game works.