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Old 04-25-2005, 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Kaimetsu
Imagine if it were made of 50 atoms. Wouldn't it then be more difficult to create equivalent effects?
Heh, that makes good sense for purpose of this debate.

My position though, is level designers cannot make good levels without at least half way decent tiles. A level designer relies on an artist to have the skill and forsight to be able to create tiles which look good and also can be used together, meaningfully, and in a variety of combinations.

A pixel artist relies on no such thing, because his medium is a pixel which can only have one solid color in it. He must use his own creativity to build that into art, into something that looks good.

A level designer's medium is created by a pixel artist, another person, and relies on that pixel artist's creativity, at least in part, to be able to use his tiles in an aestheticly pleasing manner.
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