In 2018, Square Enix released a new game called Octopath Traveler, which introduced a revolutionary new graphics format ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. As the original Dragon Quest trilogy is somewhat of a cultural ...

How do you make old games attractive to modern players? Masaaki Hayasaka, the producer of the remake, explains the magic behind the HD-2D style. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and ...

PAX West came and went last week in cloudy Seattle, Washington. MP1st was on-site to get our hands on as many upcoming games as we could. We were also one of the select outlets given special access to ...

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake will continue the classic RPG trilogy’s narrative, offering players two adventures to undertake in Dragon Quest I and Dragon Quest II. Featuring gorgeous HD-2D ...

Summary: Researchers have uncovered how primate brains transform flat, 2D visual inputs into rich, 3D mental representations of objects. This process, dubbed “inverse graphics,” works by reversing the ...

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake will continue the classic RPG trilogy’s narrative, offering players two adventures to undertake in Dragon Quest I and Dragon Quest II. Featuring gorgeous HD-2D ...

To celebrate Dragon Quest Day, which marks the anniversary of the release of the original DRAGON QUEST game in Japan on May 27, 1986, SQUARE ENIX announced that DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake – the ...

Abstract: The Light and Versatile Graphics Library (LVGL), a lightweight application display framework, is extensively employed in embedded systems. It inherently supports CPU - based rendering and is ...

Square Enix popularized the HD-2D visual style with Octopath Traveler, inspiring other developers to create similar JRPGs.