Parallax game background for indiegames

Parallax game background

What’s a parallax game background?

At the beginning, it’s a technique mainly used in traditional animation thanks to the multiplane camera (camera above several layers of glass), where the background move past the camera more slowly than the foreground.

This way, you create an illusion of depth.

Decades later, parallax game background was eventually used in videogames, then in web design, too.

You just need to place all the graphic assets on top of each other, to adjust the speed and there you go!


Chalet by night & by day (6 layers & 10 layers)


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