The nights grow dark and the wind blows cold. The horror of Pixelween is upon us once again!
This year your task will be to create book covers for horror stories! Each week during Pixelween, the weekly challenge will give you a combination of a horror genre and a time period (voted on by the PJ Discord), and you have to create a book cover that matches the combination.
Rules:
To be eligible for the Pixelween prizes, you must submit to at least 2 of the 4 weeklies. As long as at least two of your submissions are on time, you are allowed (but not required) to submit more up until October 27th, the final deadline. Technically having a complete set is not required to win, but it sure helps!
In addition to honor and fancy PJ trophies, there will also be actual prizes for the winner and runner-ups of the event, to be announced later. And all who participate shall earn the rare Pixelween trophy.
How to enter:
To participate, your works need to be submitted to the four Pixel Joint challenges, the first one which starts on the 30th September.
If you've missed out on one of the challenges you can still submit your entry to Pixel Joint, as long as at least 2 of the scenes are posted as part of a weekly challenge within the deadline. While it probably won't be necessary, poking one of the moderators when you post your entry after its challenge deadline is a good idea.
You can find the result of last year's Pixelween Here
Chain of Challenges, episode 32.
There is one good way to follow the Lemmy invasion of the previous challenge and it is the BASS.
Draw a sprite of any bass instrument as a game item. It can be an inventory item, a collectible, a weapon, etc.
A very short list of examples includes: double bass, bass guitar, guitarrón, tuba, sousaphone, basson. If you want to be original, do your own research. There are many lists online and none of them is ever complete.
You have to use the Low-8 palette by SoundsDotZip.
Bonus challenge: add animation of that instrument being played and producing those low note vibrations.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for August 2024.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZU4H0OYg-A
Chain of Challenges, episode 31.
Design the pixel art version of the highest card in the playing card deck - the ace of spades. It can be a variation of a classical design or something very creative (including inspiration from your favourite IP's, for example Alien or Batman). You have to use the Titanstone palette by polyphrog.
Chain of Challenges, episode 30.
If you don't remember this challenge...
...than it's totally fine. You can get familiar with it now or not; it doesn't really matter that much.
We will use the idea of Major Arcana cards to build our RPG party. Draw 3 sprites of characters for an RPG party. Each one need to be inspired by a different Major Arcana card.
Remember that each character sprite has to be a singular entity, separated from the other two, so if you chose, for example, "the Lovers," please connect them somehow.
You have to use the palette from the Pixel Tarot challenge.
