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The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for April 2013. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
Octopus Apocalypse is running a Kickstarter campaign to bring retro style pixel art to tabletop gaming. Pixel Dungeon is a series of print and play paper miniatures featuring the lovely pixel art or lovely pixel artist Zigmund Kawakami. Rewards include discounted miniatures and the opportunity to get custom miniatures ranging from a single mini to an entire product line.
Full details available on the Kickstarter page .
Just finished my pet project, a pixel-perfect game (256x256) about scrounging for supplies, blocking doors and mostly surviving as long as possible.
Play it in your browser (best on Chrome) here
Pixelaria, Brazil's most popular pixelart site gets revamped New interface, new team. All redesigned!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1445624543/anne?ref=home_popular
The pixelart looks pretty good, and the gameplay looks interesting. I'm not sure who the artist is or if we would know of them in this community, though.
PJer Jamato-sUn is hosting a gameboy mockup contest over at dA. All PJers are invited.
http://jamato-sun.deviantart.com/art/Spring-love-Gameboy-3000-points-pixel-contest-369057858
It has prizes too!
Pjer Supajackle just finished his RPGMaker game, Porterminus!
Porterminus is a game about the kind and smart Julie, her boyfriend Donnie, and a mysterious cat. The game is pretty short, clocking in at about an hour and a half to about two hours long.
Some of the galleries on Deviantart will be restructured and with this includes the pixel art gallery. If you would like to give your opinion on this matter, you can comment in
this journal entryand let Clefairykid (the gallery mod for pixel art) know what you think.
A game collaboration between innomin and atpalicis, which started right here on PixelJoint as a weekly challenge entry!
Please rate it if you visit :)
Hi, My handle on PixelJoint is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHElkK59BwI
Meet Music History in GIFs, a collection of 8-bit animated GIFs dedicated to famous music videos and important events in the history of music.
A nice and short animation about the famous GIF format we all know
THERE IS LIKE THIS COOL GAME. I HTINK ITS JAPENESE AND IT HAS NEAT PIXILS
LINK.
XBOX marketplace - HERE - Old-school in every way possible.
Terra Incognita is a roguelike-strategy-puzzle-game set in the late 19th century in which you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before.
We have posted some new information about our game on the TIG forums.
One man indie company Panic Art Studios has released its third game for iOS and Android, called eXtermination.
PJ member DawnBringer and Dan Curran (Zombie Head Games) have finally released a new game in their zombie-slaying series:
Zombie TD Uprise, is a tower-defence game that features well-balanced gameplay, some nice pixelart and a lot of zombies!
This time the game is in survival-mode but there's also Challenge scenarios. New in the arsenal are the armor-reducing-mine-flinging Magnet tower, the linking Lightning tower and the very tactical CorpX-tower that will curse zombies into corpse-exploding bombs. Can you master the tricky dual-path Urban map?
Play it at ZombieHead or NewGrounds
If you are getting 500 errors in the gallery please post your specs HERE
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I've created a "bot" (ran manually a few times per day) that looks for pixeljoint in tweets. twitter.com/pixeljointbot
Ahoi pixeljoint, this is miascugh on behalf of Nitrome!
As you may or may not have realised, we recently decided to give Steam Greenlight a stab with one of our more ambitious projects yet: Flightless!
Oekaki.nl, a Dutch website, has a browser-based pixel art animation program called "Animaki". Don't dismiss it for being "just" an HTML5 app, because it's surprisingly complete - even more so now that version 2 is out.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for September 2012. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
Magixbuttons.com is a webshop with all sorts of vintage and retro game items for sale with an extensive information/entertainment section.
Panic Arts (PanicBomber)has published it's first commercial game Didi's Adventure, a point & click adventure with puzzle elements.
The ReSet#8 (France Amstrad oriented Demoparty) graphical compositions were recently posted on Bitfellas. See the entries HERE.
Crowdsourcing tee-shirt design website Threadless is hosting a Pixel-art community challenge!
We can't miss this, right! Deadline is September 7th!
In light of the recent server issues, there won't be a proper challenge this week. Instead, we are going to ask you guys to take on your own personal challenge - it can be whatever you like!
Some possible ideas to consider:
Keep in mind, this is NOT a weekly challenge, your work will not be voted on, nor does it need to comply with any specific requirements. These are just some suggestions for you to consider.
However, just like a regular challenge, there will be a thread where you can post WIPs etc...
Underground Pixel is back with another smash hit for iOS! From the minds of Kevin Drew (HCGamer), Sebastian Krauss (gnodab2), Harrison Kalman (Harrisonk) and Alexander Blunck (sadly absent from Pixeljoint) comes a brand new, retro, universal, and content-packed piece of arcade action that can be yours today for just 99 pennies.
A new pixel powder game is out in the appstore!
Featuring art from your fellow PixelJoint member T-Mind, The Sandbox allow the user to create anything from lovely scenarios, to electrical circuits, and all you can imagine!
Find it in the Appstore, or in the game website: thesandboxgame.com
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for May 2012. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
The newest episode of Off Book: "The Evolution of 8-Bit Art". Off Book is a web series from PBS that explores cutting edge art, the artists that make it and the people that share it online.
Liberated Pixel Cup is a two-part competition: make a bunch of awesome free culture licensed artwork, and then program a bunch of free software games that use it. Liberated Pixel Cup brings together some powerful allies: Creative Commons, OpenGameArt, the Free Software Foundation, and you.
www.welovefine.com/contest.php
The t-shirt company WeLoveFine is hosting an 8-bit contest.
Their use of the term 8-bit is a bit loose it would seem by our standards.
None the less, it couldn't hurt to partipate in the contest.
Win up to $2500
Liberated Pixel Cup is a two-part competition: make a bunch of awesome free culture licensed artwork, and then program a bunch of free software games that use it. Liberated Pixel Cup brings together some powerful allies: Creative Commons, OpenGameArt, the Free Software Foundation, and you.
Love the pixel art in Sword & Sworcery? Well, the creators have announced CREATE IN THE KEY OF SWORCERY jam where they will showcase fan submitted media. What a great opportunity for Pixel Joint artists to show what can be done in our medium.
Kumiho, or nine-tailed fox in Korean, is PJer neofotistou's entry in Ludum Dare Jam, a 3 day game making contest and is a fresh and unique SHMUP game. The theme for this contest was 'Tiny Worlds".
Fez, the winner of this year’s IGF Grand Prize Award, is a non-linear puzzle platformer pixelart hybrid with some 3D voxel elements. Play as Gomez, a 2D creature on a voyage of discovery into the mysterious 3rd dimension. Change your perspective and look at the world in a different way.
Vertex is an action exploration platformer game developed by PJer iMoose (or BENJAMUS) in which the player controls two characters in the province of Halcyon in order to fight the unknown force behind the sudden attack on the Vertex.
A very cute and fun game found on Kongregate. Play it HERE!
Want to test how your sprite would fit in a platformer? Check THIS out.
Use the box at the bottom to you paste the url to your sprite. (GIF with transparent background with character looking left is best).
As you may be aware, we've been having server issues recently. In order to help prevent such issues in the future, Pixel Joint has decided to phase out the current login system in favour of the more robust Facebook® login system.
Thankfully, this exciting upgrade will take place as soon as possible. Hopefully by the end of next week the ugly old system will be long gone, and users will only be able to login via the world's #1 social network. Hooray!
Note: We are well aware that not everyone uses Facebook®; therefore we do have a solution for those without a Facebook® account. Please read on for instructions.
Update: Just to clarify for those that didn't catch on; this is an April Fools joke and we have no plans to change the login system.
Jake Kaufman AKA Virt just released another installment of his FX-series of pure godNESs.
Tune in, pump it up, and bang your heads HERE
Lightbot: Pixelart thinking game created for teching students about programming.
Super Smash Land is an homage to the Super Smash Bros. series, using restrictions inspired by the original Nintendo Game Boy.
Written by Dan Fornace, Brendan "Inversephase” Becker, and Flashygoodness, the musician behind Tower of Heaven.
Super Smash Land is a free to play PC Game that is designed to look and feel like it is being played on the original Nintendo Gameboy. HERE
Due to the recent downtime, the challenge has been extended by a week. Additionally, it has been updated to:
Depict somebody/something being jealous of someone/something.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for February 2012. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
"Final Freeway 2R" is the sequel of a 2010 racing game developed by Oyatsukai.com called "Final Freeway". This new version of the game features a lot of new game mechanics (road splits, character selection, new controls, etc...) and styling new pixel art graphics by Misbug. The game is now available only on iTunes App Store for iOS, but soon there will be also an Android compatible release.
Here a couple of links to check if you're interested in this game:
Promo video >>> iTunes App Store link >>> Oyatsukai.com related page
You guys gotta see this HERE
QR Pixel lets you draw pixel art inside QR codes, and allows for a large usable area. Completely free - try it out here!
Some examples: www.qrpixel.com
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for January 2012. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
With Wikipedia, Reddit and the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) protesting via website-blackouts, this seems like a good time to explain those 4-letter acronyms. Don't worry, I'll keep it short! (under 500 words).
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for December 2011. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
The people at Fox Retro Italy have made a great pixel promotional video for some classic shows, don't miss it!
The Pixel Art Guild interview Luc Bernard, an indie game developer whose games often feature pixel art about his views on the medium and its place in game development. Pixeljoint members Badassbill (Shane Gill), Tyvon Thomas, Jonathan McGuire and Larwick are all noted to have worked with Luc.
Check out the feature HERE.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for November 2011. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
Pixeljoint veterans 7even and HCGamer have released their first iPhone game as, Underground Pixel.
Pixeljoint is holding another palette competition which is open to everyone and is quite simple. Submit your ultimate 20 color unique + original color palette. The winning palette will be used in PJs next collab.
Add a rare trophy to your profile.
Contest closes Friday, December 2, 2011. (CLOSED!)
The holidays are almost upon us, which means it's time to get ready for the annual Secret Santa!
For anyone new to Secret Santa, the idea is that everyone involved gives and receives a gift. For added suspense, the person who has you (your santa) is randomly assigned and remains a secret until December 24th.
Sign up quickly if you plan to participate, the last day to sign up is November 23rd.
A compilation of games, videos and other pixel related things recently submitted by PJ members.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for October 2011. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
If accepted by the Director of Education, at a new Chinese kindergarten, your pixel designs will be translated into a bathroom wall tile for several wall sections of the school!
The guys from vlambeer, creators of Super Crate Box, have released their new game.
Serious Sam: A Random Encounter.
PJ member Souly took part in a local 48 hour pixel animation jam hosted by Quickdraw Animation Society in May 2011.
The theme was to make an animation using 8-bit in any form or concept. Voxel, Graph-Paper, or Pixel art.
Participants could work as teams of 1-4 people.
Two excellent pixel games made by Kenney Vleugels. Enjoy!
PJ member DawnBringer and Dan Curran (Zombie Head Games) have released their new Flashgame: Zombie TD - Reborn, a tower-defence game that features well-balanced gameplay, some nice pixelart and a lot of zombies!
Play it HERE
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for August 2011. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for September 2011. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
A very special award to a piece that would have placed on the Top10 for September but due to our mixup was denied. We apologize:
PJ member schrumpfkopf, recently expanded his tool-chain to create flash-builds out off his iPhone games.
PJ member Tyvon has been working on a project that is finally available for pre-order!
Navigator is a 2D puzzle game for the PC (Windows Phone 7 coming soon). Navigator mixes a platforming elements with classic block puzzle games to create a unique experience. All of the in-game graphics and animations are created by Tyvon, except some assets by collaborator, fellow artist and buddy Joe Ryan.
This weekend marks the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and in the US things will/should be gloomy all around especially for the NYC members. The Japanese and Norwegian members have also had heavy hearts of late.
Here are some miscellaneous diversions to take your mind of things.
D-Pad Studios has released a demo for the Beautiful Indie title "Owlboy", developed by PJ member Snake.
Link to 80 MB download is HERE
Some real life pixel installations, exhibitions and videos for your viewing pleasure.
For this forum highlight we'd like to showcase the dedication and commitment displayed by xxmantisxx while working on his Human Head piece.
Good read and analysis on the animations of the famous Capcom's Darkstalkers fighting game that featured really good animations for its time. Read it HERE!
THIS YouTube video highlights a game I helped create while at Full Sail University. It pays homage to classic games in the best way I knew how!! It is a hybrid between Pitfall II and Tomb Raider. Enjoy! (~_^)
RED 24 BLUE 22
It was a close call, but in the end, RED rose as supreme winner of this completely-unnecesary-yet-fruitfully-creative-non-ribbon-fueled-challenge.
Only 10 days remain in the July avvy war! So far our scouts report that the BLUE army leads with 22 units in their ranks against the currently overpowered RED with a puny 18 units as of this status report.
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 | May Day May 1st |
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