Onipunks Studio, an indie games developer featuring PJ member luigi_mu as lead pixel artist, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for “C-Wars”, an upcoming RTS game fully made in pixel art. They have reached their initial goal in just 6 days and now they are asking for your opinions and support.

Create a new and original avatar depicting the portrait of a celebrity.

Optional bonus challenge: Use the avatar during the voting week.

Canvas Size - Max. 64x64.
Colours - Max 9.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.

Storm Thorgerson died recently. This week you are challenged with reinterpreting one of his covers.

Canvas Size - Unrestricted, but it must be exactly square.
Colours - Max 24.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.

Please mention which album cover you have interpreted in the description

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

Pixel artists Tony Redmer and Glauber Kotaki joined forces to create the assets for Chasm by Discord Games. This project has unfortunately run out of funding and resorted to kickstarter to save it and let it see the light! Chasm is metroidvania that features procedurally generated dungeons. Chasm also features 100% pixel purity. Every pixel in the game has been hand placed aside from those used in particle effects. Help us out by giving us a vote on Steam Greenlight or Donating (or sharing) the Kickstarter! 

The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for March 2013. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.

 

KFK: Bamboo Forest by slym

Shantae DSi town backgrounds by ptoing

Dungeon Dashers Logo by Helm

KFK: Temple by slym

The Four Sacred Animals by seta45

KFK: Marketplace by slym

BURP by snowk

Bereavement by pel

Dat Kat ! by Squirrelsquid

Sayaka and Dra-culula by Frario

Draw a scene involving a naked character with all the mature parts censored in an amusing way. An example:



Please avoid anything pornographic or explicitly sexual!

Canvas Size - Max 200 x 200.
Colours - Max 20.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

To commiserate the closing of LucasArts, this week, we want you to create a mock-up of a fictional Star Wars game using the EGA palette.

Optional Bonus Challenge: Create a mock-up in the style of a SCUMM game.

Canvas Size - Exactly 320 (width) x 200 (height).
Colors - Max 16. Use only colors from the default EGA palette:



Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

A Megaman and NES tribute game.

It's April Fools' Day; so, for this week, we want you to come up with an image that looks innocent/cute from the preview but actually turns out to be something scary/creepy/unexpected . The preview image must be taken directly from part of the actual image.

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

It's time to vote for the latest pixel art challenge: Frenemies.

VOTE NOW!