I've been meaning to write about Samorost 2 since way back before it won Best Web Browser Game at the Independent Games Festival. If you haven't seen this game yet, I recommend you go check it out right now. You should be warned, however, that it may take a good 30 minutes to complete the first chapter, and it's incredible hard to stop playing once you start. There are a number of things that I think make this game really great:

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Dragonfly pixel art.

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All of my Flash games up until this point have been made using mostly vector graphics. While this looks really nice and keeps the file sizes low, it can also slow the games down quite a bit as Flash has to frequently redraw the images. For my next game I've decided to try using pixel graphics.

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