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Students Redefine Retro

GameVortex.com Writes:

A student project at the Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC) in Louisiana seems to be taking the "Graphics versus Gameplay" argument to the next level.

At first glance, their game, Ink Man, appears to be something taken straight out of a kid's drawing book, and that's exactly the style these students are going for with their simple, yet challenging platformer. "We realized early on that none of us really knew how to draw, so we decided to go with a style we could actually do," said Garrett Breaux, the class' Project Manager. To which another student, Nicholas Hathaway (Programming) said, "But then we had a specific style that we had to conform to, and that became a challenge."
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