Cursed List of Jungle Tilesets as Narrated by Werner Herzog
content warning: racist and colonial-imperialistic imageries
for a glossary, reading resources and credits, scroll all the way down
The grid is the thing that tells the player "You're not in an actual world...You're just walking around on a bunch of tiles." Now while this is true, and the grid really IS there, we want to create the illusion that it's not. The greatest thing you can do when making a grid of tiles, is to make it look like it doesn't exist.
- 'So You Want To Be A Pixel Artist?', 'Chapter 2: Obliterating "The Grid"', written by Tsugumo
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I enjoyed the parallels at play here. I also remember the like, ripper logos on many a chipset insisting on credit, or even not to steal it and claim credit for the ripping? There was a goofy irony to it, like, how precious we can be with anything we can manufacture a claim of credit to, even if the thing was stolen in the first place. Property of the museum, I guess.
Not that those things weren't of value to the community, and some ripping projects were very intensive, just kind of fascinating that a community built around pirated software and frequently pirated assets were a lot less generous with that freebooting attitude when there was a name to be made and forum rep to protect. Guess assets from like, companies and stuff, and even RM2K's maker itself were seen as distant and far away enough power-wise to not matter in those assessments.
thank u onamint for your comment! 💜 i enjoyed your take on this :)
this list is next level. love when both audio tracks are doubled up