November 2009 News

The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for October 2009. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.

Warrior by Vital

Wrath Be My Name by DawnBringer

Nvisionary Shambler by nvision

Bannière by Ergg

Moonlit Massacre by Dex

Rio de Janeiro after people by Victor Rojo

Battle Car vol.3 "In mountains after rain" by 4tochkin

LEVEL GET! by .Anubis.

Trying Something New. . . by Skurwy87

Dragon by metalidol

"Potshot is the quick little game you have been waiting for."

A brainchild of Mambazo, who has been working on it for several months now, Potshot is a neat multiplayer turn-based tactics game that runs in your browser, and features a bunch of cute pixel art graphics!

Ammo - Pistols - SMGs - Rifles - Armor - Frag & Flash Grenades - Medikits - Explosive Barrels and more!

Give it a go!

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Challenge winner Kaiseto wants you to pixel a scene or landscape showing a setting that displays two or more different movie genres mixed together. Choose at least 2 of the following genres:

    Sports
    Romance
    Monster movie
    Western
    Steampunk
    Noir

Make sure to mention which genres you're using.

Canvas Size - Min 150 x 100; Max 240 x 160. Either horizontal or vertical.
Colors - Max 32.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

Pick one of Arachne's linearts shown in the challenge thread and colour it (don't forget, colouring also means texture/shading etc... too!). Also, make sure you give your newly coloured creature a background.

Links to challenge lineart - [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Canvas Size - Maintain the original canvas size. You may flip/rotate the canvas 90° if you like.
Colours - Unrestricted.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.

The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.

 A little late for Halloween, but a terrific idea for next year.

Check it.

The roguelike Dwarf Fortress has been given a pixel make-over in the form of Stonesense, a third-party visualiser for the game which is currently in its third alpha release. Stonesense takes the original ASCII-based graphics and converts them into isometric visuals.

The open source mod is being developed by "Jonask" and "Solifuge" with graphics currently being created by members of the Dwarf Fortress community. Check out the official thread here.

Also, head over to TIGSource for more info, a screenshot and a video of Stonesense in action.

The month of Movember is now upon us, therefore we want you to make a portrait of an original character with a moustache (no real life people or existing characters).

Your character does not have to be male (or human!); you may decide to create a moustachioed miss or even a martian monster with a monstrous martian moustache if you so wish.

Canvas Size - Max 100 x 100.
Colours - Max 16.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.

The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.