artstyle

English

Etymology

Compound of art +‎ style.

Noun

artstyle (plural artstyles)

1. A style of artwork, especially one in a video game.
   • 2014 December 4, Steven Tweedie, “Everyone's Talking About 'Crossy Road,' The Addicting New App That's Basically A Better Version Of 'Frogger'”, in Business Insider‎^[1]:

     "Crossy Road" is both fun and addictive, and skillfully combines the gameplay of "Frogger" with a beautiful cubic artstyle that makes the game come to life in a charming way.

   • 2020 July 19, Allisa James, “Deathloop Dev Delves Into the Unique Artstyle, Time Loop Mechanics, and Being a Next-Gen Title”, in DualShockers‎^[2]:

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   • 2021 March 4, Andre Abrahamian (quoted), Nick Rego, Mufaddal Fakhruddin, “What It Takes to Remaster a Cult Classic Like Diablo II”, in IGN‎^[3]:

     That’s where we thought of our 70-30 artstyle rule, where seventy percent is the new art that we created, which is trying to maintain the shapes, sizes, silhouettes and colors of the original game.