Template:Did you know nominations/The Crimson Diamond
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The Crimson Diamond
- ... that the sole developer of the The Crimson Diamond first created a series of pixel art rooms and later decided to build a game around the house she had designed?
- Source: "She started using [her free time] to learn pixel art, recreating the look of the text parser games she enjoyed as a kid like The Colonel’s Bequest. “I made a room, and then I made another room, and then I realized I need to make a little sprite character because I wanted to have the furniture in scale,” Minamata said. “So I made a character and I wanted to have her walk around, and suddenly it’s becoming a game.” [1]
- Reviewed: Template:Did_you_know_nominations/G Affairs
- Comment: There's more hooks here that could be a possibility – maybe that the sole developer of the Crimson Diamond used to freelance as an artist for The New Yorker? But I think the idea of creating a pixel house and then going "oh, let's have a game" is more interesting to me.
Nomader (talk) 18:19, 22 August 2024 (UTC).
Would you consider a slight tweak to the hook like:
- ALT1:... that the developer of the The Crimson Diamond first created a series of pixel art rooms and later built a game around the house she had designed?
I realize it's almost the same. I think "lone" is not entirely necessary, and the emphasis could imply that no other people worked on the game at all. Also, it seems more direct and factual to say that she built the game than decided to build the game. If you're not interested in the ALT, feel free to strike. And unrelated, but I get so much nostalgia from the game's aesthetic. Rjjiii (talk) 23:18, 23 August 2024 (UTC)