Hand-drawn art is a very popular aesthetic in modern indie games, creating a tactile feel in digital form. It's usually just a style that developers emulate, with the assets created digitally with software, models and textures, but Finding Polka, a cosy adventure about finding the titular lost dog (but also getting distracted by other surreal adventures), is literally all drawn by hand.
When I tried out this game at indie game festival BitSummit back in May, attendees at the booth could even leaf through a sketch book containing the original artwork, all drawn with a ballpoint pen by the game's solo dev Shinnosuke Kumazawa. What you see on paper is what you see in-game (if you're inspired, see our guides to the best game development software and the best laptops for game development).
