sprites

They may not have all the bells and whistles, but you don't need anything but sprites for 2d.

Just out of curiosity, anyone know why only 12 sprites can be loaded at a time into memory?

It has a really fantastic collection of sprites and sounds which is what gets you creating quickly.

The Street Fighter II footage has sprites that look like it, but the gameplay isn't really anything like it.

I really like the sprites they have some character though the shiny dirt is not really my thing.

Shovel Knight, Dust: An Elysian Tail and Braid all use 2d sprites, not models.

Maybe the algorithm did detect a face in the couch, as we see them in trees (wood sprites!).

And those were a very conserved resource—I think there was space to have 128 sprites active in total?

Starfox was a rail shooter that used 3D models rather than scaled sprites.

It's probably the last console produced with the concept of tilemaps and sprites.

You could compose out of, say, 3 bpp sprites or layers.

Scenarios involving sprites and domain sharding we'd probably expect to fall somewhere in the middle.

The thing you'll have to figure out is what tool to draw your "sprites".