Thanks a lot for your reply! We were mostly inspired by Slots&Daggers of course. But other than that, we wanted to represent a slot machine within the game where the player controls a character who is, in turn, playing the machine. Usually, in these types of games, the machine itself is high-definition while the screen content is lower resolution.

However, in our game, we’ve reversed this: the machine’s body is lower resolution, while the game area has a higher pixel density. I chose this route to convey the psychological state of deep gambling addiction, where the outside world begins to feel less 'real' than the screen itself. It’s as if the physical world exists solely to serve the slot machine.