February 2009 News

From Andrew McClure comes Jumpman, a maddeningly fun platformer that starts out simple but becomes increasingly mind-boggling the farther you progress.

Check it out!

Create a comic that uses exactly one word. It can be used in a speech bubble, a sound effect, a street sign, anything; as long as there is only one single word. It must be a legible and hand pixeled word in English. Loan words are acceptable; for example you may use "Aloha" as your word.

Also, no concealing extra words.

The comic must have at least 3 panels.

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

The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.

Finally fixed that nagging Firefox bug with links not working by updating the editor to the latest version. Let me know if you encounter any WYSIWYG editor bugs.

Lollige challenges you to create a character, and make it dance! 8 frames exactly! If there is a certain beat to it, please make the beat start on the very first frame, so it will look even better viewing all entries together! Any character is allowed, humanoid or animal, alien, original or not.

Canvas Size  - Maximum 48 x 48.
Colors -  Unrestricted.
Animation - Exactly 8 frames. Each frame must be 1/10th of a second.
Transparency -  Required.

Note: If you don't have an animation program you can draw every loose frame in any graphics program, save them, and create the animation with iaza or download unFREEz.

The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.

Both Mistress-Jaeden (Pixel Joint gallery) and armaina have become the new Gallery Directors for pixel art over at deviantART.

Congratulations to them both.

What would The Dark Knight look like if it was a NES game, and not a Batman movie?

Find out here ;)

Its a fake NES game intro, made by an animator called Macbee.
I found a few of the image, and I expect them to be very good reduxes, not pixel art, but still its fun to watch :)

Preview image

The latest entry in the blog Games Aren't Numbers poses some questions regarding Pixel Art, including the ever interesting question of what defines Pixel Art and what's its place.

Share some knowledge, folks!

This awesome little tool created by DreamRunner lets you see how many colours your peice has and sorts them into a nice little PNG file.

http://2ddr.com/index.php?prime=sortpal Clicking on this link will take you to a page where you enter the URL for your image and then simply click sort and then just wait for the sorting to be sorted. Currently, it seems as though it only works correctly for .gif images.