It's the end of the International Year of Forests; so, to close things off for the year, this week's challenge is to create an image depicting at least one dead tree.

Canvas Size - Max 200 x 200.
Colours - Max 32.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

A neat holiday video!

PJ Member Sirocco recently finished and publicly released Moai v1.10...

Create a mockup of an original two colour game. You may use any two colours except pure black or white.

Canvas Size - Max 160 (width) x 120 (height).
Colours - Exactly 2.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

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.

 

Leftovers by Fool

Ghostfire by a3um

Fall Mockup by slym

Where Trees Go To Die by lolyogurt

Fallen is Babylon by lolyogurt

MOTS Album Cover by Kaiseto

Peace, Bro by Jinn

Haunted Graveyard by Mrmo Tarius

Swords v3 by Hiuru

Lifemother by Frost

A neat time-killer

Win eBoy prizes!

PJs latest isometric collaboration has begun in the forum. The overall theme for this project will be underwater and features Dennis' award winning 20 color palette.

Read all the details and the project rules HERE

Pixeljoint veterans 7even and HCGamer have released their first iPhone game as, Underground Pixel.

Numbers and symbols often end up as an afterthought when it comes to fonts. So, let's turn the tables and make some 'fonts' that exclusively feature numbers and symbols.

You must include all of the following characters:

1234567890
!?@%&

You may optionally include other symbols, but any additional symbols must appear on the standard US keyboard layout. Do not include any letters though.

Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Min 4.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.

My Brother and I (SharkArm Brothers) have just finished our latest indie game project called "The Chicken Bandit" and it is now available on Android.  All of the artwork was pixelled by me and the coding was done by my brother.  The Chicken Bandit is an action game that has you robbing trains, battling robots, and lassoing as much loot as you can. You can check out the website and the trailer at these links!

Game Website: http://www.TheChickenBandit.com

Youtube Trailer

Announcing the winners of the 20 Color Palette Comp.
First Place - Dennis
Second Place - tanuki
Third Place - Super17
Honorable Mention* - a3um + [thUg]

This year allegedly marks the 35th anniversary of the original Colossal Cave Adventure - the first text adventure/interactive fiction and progenitor of the adventure game genre.

So, the challenge this week is to make a pixel art interpretation of the game's opening lines:
 

YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING.
AROUND YOU IS A FOREST. A SMALL STREAM FLOWS OUT OF THE BUILDING AND
DOWN A GULLY.

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