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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

More Minimalism: Mario And Friends

Remember that set of minimalist video game character images featured here several months ago? The collection broke down familiar faces like Pikachu, Kratos, and Street Fighter's Vega into simple shapes and colors as an experiment to show how recognizable their designs are with gamers.

Spurred by recent attention from video game sites, illustrator Ashley Browning (an artist for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) added four new iconic designs to the set -- Mario, Wario, Luigi, and Waluigi. I never noticed the differences in Mario and Luigi's mustaches, but I totally see it now!

Ashley's selling several of his previous designs (Donkey Kong, Jigglypuff, Kirby, Pikachu, and E.Honda) as t-shirts. He used to also sell posters, but those don't seem to be available anymore. You can see the full collection of "video game minimalism" artwork on his Flickr set.

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I never noticed the differences in Mario and Luigi's mustaches until a few weeks ago when I came across enemies based on their respective noses (complete with nose-blowing attack!) in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story for DS.

Have you seen the Animated version at http://www.gixman.com/minimalismo-en-videojuegos-version-animada/

Have you seen the Animated version at http://www.gixman.com/minimalismo-en-videojuegos-version-animada/

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