The 2D characters from the original Cave Story are making their way into Cave Story 3D. As seen here, the world of Cave Story 3D looks very different from the game’s previous versions. However, it won ...

2.5D game/animator with flat 2D sprites in 3D environment, animated in a style that is a combination of cut-out and skeletal animation and composed (alpha blended) at real time. Describe the problem ...

Through the looking glass: A ton of mods through the years have offered dramatically different takes on id Software's classic first-person shooter. Voxel Doom, in contrast, is remarkably subtle, given ...

Voxel Doom is a new graphics mod for the original Doom that turns the original 2D sprite-based enemies into fully-3D models. Now, replacing enemies with 3D version might sound like a big departure but ...

A 3D action platformer built in Unreal Engine 5.4, using 2D sprites in a stylized pirate world. You play as a fearless pig pirate battling through hordes of shark pirates.

With the "3dSen VR" emulator, retro fans can experience beloved 2D NES classics in full 3D dioramas for the first time – also in virtual reality. Developer Tran Vu Truc, founder of Geod Studio, ...

Cave Story 3D has three menu options when you start the game: story mode, time attacks, and 2D mode. 2D mode replaces the 3D models with 2D sprites in 3D environments. Aside from 3D graphics, Cave ...

has been in development for three years, and it’s because the characters are drawn using 2D sprites rather than 3D models, the game’s developer, AlphaDream, revealed in an Iwata Asks interview.

There’s an absolute beauty in the style of games that moved between the 2D and 3D space in that era of video games. Among them were a lot of games that took the two forms and blended them together ...