[Japhy Riddle] was tired of creating pixel art. He went to subpixel art. The idea is that since each color pixel is composed of three subpixels, your display is actually three times as dense as ...

Patrick Gillespie created Subpixel Snake, an implementation of the classic Snake game that uses the RGB sub-pixel color ...

Not only that, it defines the Metroidvania sub-genre alongside the early Metroid games. Though it has visibly aged, Symphony of the Night has done so gracefully. Its pixel art visuals look as ...

the newly dubbed subgenre has a long and complicated history The best anime games on PC Part of me loves the mystery of Noirlac posting pixel art of Elvira and a landscape of an alien planet in ...

If a sub-pixel is faulty – either too bright or too dark – the overall cell emits the wrong colour. Barco’s idea exploits the fact that, to the human eye, picture cells blur and overlap when ...

Even with clever pentile sub-pixel arrangements, the density can't go much higher. As the pixels get smaller, so too does the amount of light they can emit. The next step is probably microLED ...