Badge catalogue
315 badges for the good bits, the bad decisions and everything that earned a closer look.
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Art and animation
13 badges- Circus badge All Detail, No Art +1
Millions of pores, zero visual identity.
4 posts with this badge → - Positive Animation Worth Rewatching ✓
Ordinary movement looks good enough to rewind.
View badge → - Circus badge Animations Held Together With String +2
Stiff, awkward movement that looks wrong even before you start paying attention to it.
1 post with this badge → - Circus badge Another Unreal Engine Tech Demo +2
Blue fog. Shiny rocks. Another Unreal demo waiting for an art director.
3 posts with this badge → - Positive Characters Worth Looking At ✓
Distinctive, memorable characters that are a pleasure to look at. The artists had fun with these.
2 posts with this badge → - Positive Looks Like Itself ✓
One screenshot and you know which game it is. Someone had an actual visual idea.
4 posts with this badge → - Positive Low Fidelity, Loads Of Style ✓
Simple models or pixels, with enough thought behind them to look fantastic.
View badge → - Circus badge Particle Soup +1
One effect goes off and now nobody can see what the fuck is happening.
View badge → - Circus badge Same Face Factory +1
Different hair, same face. How many of these characters am I supposed to remember?
1 post with this badge → - Positive The Art Team Carried It ✓
The artwork keeps making me interested in a game that keeps giving me reasons to leave.
1 post with this badge → - Positive Ugly As Sin, Somehow Works ✓
Ugly as sin and completely committed to it. Fair enough.
View badge → - Circus badge Visual Sludge +2
Everything blurs into the same ugly mess. There is a game in there somewhere.
View badge → - Positive You Can See What Is Happening ✓
The screen can explode and the important information survives.
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