Salazar Games Website (Remastering)

Spent last night and this morning pouring through hundreds of fonts (mostly re-renderings of 8-bit arcade, a motion I find amusing, since the 8-bit arcade tried to look as good as possible, and here we are reversing their efforts) (retro pixelplay has found a following among "classic gamers", and I see the appeal of handcrafted pixelart- a digital cycling of the impressionists), and decided on a playful script typeface named "Luna" to open my redone version of my old game design company's site. Huge shoutout to underscore.js and bootstrap for easing my UI woes.

Old Homepage:

Remastered Homepage (with Luna font and gallery slideshow):

Games list (below slideshow):

And footer!

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