How the Replaced devs fixed display bloat with a stylish gadget

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Game Developer · 5 min read · games

Replaced developer Sad Cat Studios created the Wingman, an in-game device inspired by GameBoy Camera and Sony Walkman, to manage lore items without bloating the UI. The gadget uses stylized 3D hand animation with pixel post-processing.

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Appeared in 2026-06-05.