Pixel an scene that includes something made out of glass.

Optional bonus challenge: include curved glass in your scene.

Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Max 32.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

This week we want you to pick a maximum of 12 colours from the Microsoft Office palette (shown below) to depict something small.

It could be toy car, bacteria, a chihuahua etc... just as long as it's something that could reasonably be considered small in comparison to an average-sized human.

Canvas Size - Max 192 (width) x 96 (height).
Colours - Max 12; Use only colours from the Microsoft Office palette shown below:

Transparency - Optional.
Animation - No.

A little game developed with Unity in 36 hours for the Edge Create Challenge by Misbug, Piero "w4nderlust" Molino and Giovanni "Carnefrisca" Colì.

Even though the engine doesn't actually support pixel art illustrations, the game has been based on 2D pixel art sprites. The project is still on and maybe in a near future you'll find a version for touch screen devices.

Play "No, Birdie, No!"

Gecimen challenges you to create a 100 x 100 animation that clearly depicts a parallax scrolling background.

The image should consist of at least two layers moving at different speeds to be considered as parallax.

Optional bonus challenge: Add a moving unit (vehicle, infantry etc.) in the foreground.

Canvas Size - Exactly 100 x 100.
Colors - Max 24.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Required; max 30 frames.

Quest Mode: ON!

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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.

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A very cute and fun game found on Kongregate. Play it HERE!

Pick a real life animal - other than a bunny (or any other lagomorph) - and depict them with a basket containing Easter eggs.

So, for example, you could show an 'Easter Dolphin' delivering eggs to scuba divers.

Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Max 15.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.

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).

Create a scene showing crepuscular rays.

Canvas size - Max 250 x 250.
Colours - Max 28.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.

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.

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