The latest collection of PJer finds, creations and other stuff.
*Formerly Pixelpourri
GAMES
• Adcrusher and a friend made a game for a school project called Castle Anarok. Based on the book Ready Player One by Earnest Cline. It's one or two players but to play two player you need at least one usb controller. Music is The Titan Turrican by SvenZZon.
http://www.sharkarm.com/adcrusher/CastleAnarok.exe (Special version just for PJ)
• It's Cold! by DatMuffinMan. Your terrible owner has left you (the puppy) outside in the midst of a harsh winter storm.
• Orion Trail (Kickstarter) is a single player space adventure for Windows, Mac, and Linux that will be released through Steam. It features pixel art by Evan Brown (@etb342), lead artist on Enemy Mind (includes pixels by aeveis). They also have a prototype up if you want to see what the game is like! Found by aeveis
• PJer neofotistou (aka castpixel) is now lead artist for Starr Mazer, taking over from Jérémie Périn. Sample Screen HERE. Kickstarter HERE
• Beardquake, a simple collect and survive game. Created by Jupitron. Other games HERE. Forum thread HERE.
• Camera Obscura on Steam includes some pixels by PJer FrootsyCollins.
VIDEO
• Simpsons opening pixel version by Paul Robertson and Ivan Dixon - http://youtu.be/FIZ_gDOrzGk
• PJer Mike Scott has created a 2 minute short for the Nickelodeon International Animated Shorts Program, which you can watch HERE. His site is HERE. Found by Gengar
• Watch Jinn pixel. In THIS video on his YouTube channel where he revamps Edgar. Found by jalonso
WARES
• Pixel Shader turns 3D models into pixel art. Its in Japanese but Google translator does a decent job. Pixel Shader tutorial in English HERE. Found by Stickman
MISC
• A nice article by on Mario Bros' history and some design choices and variations when ported to other systems. http://superadventuresingaming.blogspot.com.br/2015/01/mario-bros-arcade.html Found by Jinn
• Pixelize is a Safari Browser Extension that toggles nearest-neighbour interpolation on images. Useful when using browser's built-in zoom (ctrl+ or cmd+) to enlarge pixel art images. A button in the toolbar then allows you to turn nearest-neighbor interpolation on and off. Created by Retronator
• New feature on Chrome Canary that fixes blurred pixels. Applying "image-rendering: pixelated" to the tag that contains the pixelart piece makes it pixelated, even when scaled up or down. You can check more about this here: [link] Only available on a dev version of Chrome, but it's in the HTML5/CSS3 spec and will soon enough land on all major browsers. Found by Alarka
• NPA - Junk Head 1. A terrific stop motion film. Found by ADrawingMan
• eBoy San Francisco Pixorama Kickstarter. Found by 8 Bit Dreams
• Chano Maraco. Spanish pixel comic on good manners and treating others with respect. The type of guy any mother would be proud to date her daughter. Created by MIERDINSKY
• Wired featured an article on the upcoming Kickstarter-funded game "Moonman" by Ben Porter. Found by rklesmit
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As always if you find interesting pixel related things to post in the next Pixelpourri StrayPixels then send in as news or PM me with a link jalonso
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PJer neofotistou (aka castpixel) is now lead artist for Starr Mazer, taking over from Jérémie Périn. Sample Screen HERE. Kickstarter HERE
The last "here" is not a link
jal, thanks for posting the link to my minigame! very much appreciated.
Hahah thanks for playing my game! So yeah.. thats just the end... I should probably just put a text that says the end in there to clear up confusion... oh well. I am aware of the bug where the enemies glitch through walls, but I couldnt figure out how to fix it and I haven't had an occassion where it breaks the game. There's no diference between the knight an samurai, mainly due to time restraints. They're mainly in there for consistency with the book and also so two player has two characters for both of the players.
Great stuff everyone!
When I beat [spoiler 
] in Castle Anarok I get a white screen and nothing else. I can still hear the attacks. Is this a bug or the way it should function? Also nice game, althrough I'm not sure about the difference between the knight and the samurai.
Edit: Also there's a bug that sometimes enemies go through walls and end up in the other room.
Great stuff!! Those Pixel Shader results are quite convincing 
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Still waiting on that beta :>
Any chance of .gif files being released (maybe with watermarks or something) so people can study those frame by frame?