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Pixel terrain

Video game concept

Terrain and possibly rest of the environment is treated (in terms of physics, movement, destruction, etc.) per pixel rather than by tile or larger (graphics) entities.

34
games
15
platforms
Cortex Command (Linux)
Cortex Command
LIN 2012-09-28
Aardvarks (Amiga OCS)
Aardvarks
OCS 1994
Crust (Linux)
Crust
LIN 2012
AUTS (MS-DOS)
AUTS
DOS 1995
Lemmings 32k (Internet Only)
Lemmings 32k
WWW 2001-04
KOPS (MS-DOS)
KOPS
DOS 1996
The Crystal City (Tandy Color Computer)
The Crystal City
COCO 1990
Lemmings (MS-DOS)
Lemmings
DOS 1991-03
Lemmings (Game Gear)
Lemmings
GG 1992
Lemmings 2: The Tribes (Super Nintendo)
Lemmings 2: The Tribes
SNES 1994
The SandBox (Android)
The SandBox
ANDR 2014-09
Lemmings (Amiga OCS)
Lemmings
OCS 1991-02-14
Implied: destructible world
This is essentially what voxels give for 3D environments.

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Games by year

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The first Pixel terrain video game was released in 1982.

Psygnosis, Data Realms and Pixowl published most of these games.

Platforms

Linux 8
MS-DOS 5
Windows 3
Tandy Coco 3
Amiga 3
Mega Drive 2
Atari ST 2
Game Gear 1
Mac OS X 1
iOS 1
Internet Only 1
Android 1
SAM 1
SNES 1
GB 1

Most common companies

Psygnosis8
Data Realms3
Pixowl3
Tom Mix Software2