{"id":59109,"date":"2023-05-08T03:10:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T02:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/pc\/lunark-is-an-indie-game-with-beautiful-rotoscoped-graphics\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T03:10:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T02:10:55","slug":"lunark-is-an-indie-game-with-beautiful-rotoscoped-graphics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/?p=59109","title":{"rendered":"Lunark is an indie game with beautiful rotoscoped graphics"},"content":{"rendered":"


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There are, by my count, 1732 indie games coming out every day now, which makes promoting them (for devs) and covering them (for us) almost impossible. One trend I\u2019ve enjoyed lately, though, is an attempt to market a game not just by showing the game, but by showing what went into making <\/em>the game.<\/p>\n

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This Wacky Magical Girl Anime Is Studio Trigger-Coded To Perfection<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Dungeon Experience<\/em> is a good example of this<\/a><\/span>, but another one popped up over the weekend for Lunark<\/em>, a \u201cmodern take on the 2D cinematic platformer genre\u201d, by which its developers (mostly just creator\u00a0Johan Vinet)\u00a0mean its in the same vein as classics like Another World<\/em> and Flashback<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Those were two games defined not just by their cinematic aspirations, heavy on cutscenes and dramatic framing, but because they achieved a lot of that via rotoscoping, the technology where people act scenes out on film then animators recreate it in a game\/show\/movie.<\/p>\n

Lunark<\/em>, appropriately, does much the same thing, but what I was so happy to see over the weekend was the footage behind the animation, which reveals that for every scene involved a dramatic sci-fi chase or some complex alien machinery, there was…a dude in his kitchen sitting on a shelf, swinging on some bars at a children\u2019s playground or lovingly touching his floorboards:<\/p>\n