Just to be clear: Yoko Kobayashi designed what were perhaps Sega’s two best-known characters in the 1980s (Opa Opa and Alex Kidd were the two characters who appeared most frequently in games at the time), and she was completely unknown until recently.

Link (paywalled article)
note.com/beep21/n/n00...

I’ve updated Yoko Kobayashi’s profile with all the information I’ve been able to gather to date.
Note: she is presumably credited as KBY in the high score table of Fantasy Zone.
vgdensetsu.net/yokokobayashi

With tech advancements becoming more & more costly, more companies need to look with achieving more with the tech of the past. Of course what that actually means is putting in more work & time, but what *doesn't* mean that when it comes to dev time?

"Half-Life: Alyx" doesn't get enough credit for just how good it looks. And all of it is super optimized, so I'm assuming it relies on a lot of non-current tech to achieve that. Like, is all of that lighting just baked in? Looks gorgeous. As always "great graphics" is actually "great art direction"