Paperboy
Game
Documents about Paperboy
Article
Shroom and Gloom Sets September 10 Early Access Launch Date
Johannesburg-based studio Team Lazerbeam has announced that its fungal roguelike deckbuilder Shroom and Gloom will enter Early Access on Steam on September 10, 2026.
- South African studio Team Lazerbeam will launch its fungal roguelike deckbuilder, Shroom and Gloom, into Early Access on September 10, 2026.
- The game has achieved significant pre-launch traction on Steam, reaching 206,233 wishlists as of June 2026.
- Team Lazerbeam has set a new post-announcement goal of reaching 250,000 Steam wishlists by the Early Access launch date.
Games Industry AfricaSep 2026
Article
A New Angle on Parallel Languages: The Contribution of Visual Arts to a Vocabulary of Graphical Projection in Video Games
Graphical projection has been underused and loosely described in game studies, where press and players rely on catch-all labels such as "top-down" and "isometric."
- The paper argues that game studies relies on loose labels such as "top-down view" and "isometric graphics" and proposes art-historical terminology, classified by underlying projection principles rather than by technology, as a sturdier analytical framework.
- Perspective (rooted in Alberti's treatise) simulates human vision through foreshortening, whereas parallel projection preserves relationships between axes; pictorial projection splits into oblique forms (cavalier, cabinet) and axonometric forms (isometric, dimetric, trimetric).
- Dimetric rendering with its 2:1 pixel ratio is far more common in practice than true isometric projection, a point the author uses to show that the popular label often misdescribes what games actually display.
G|A|M|E – The Italian Journal of Game StudiesMar 2013
Companies behind it
As the documents state it.