Hey! Yeah, it took a while. About 8 hours on and off. I did some some productive copying, but yeah a huge amount was just performed by plotting pixel by pixel to build the intricate designs.Honestly, the triangles were less work than the border despite them looking more complex just because I had to hand-pixel the curve of that corded pattern.

The four symbols I wanted some stuff that felt mystical so four of them are 6-pointed stars (I wanted to avoid the traditional pentagram as a personal challenge), and the others are a combination of alchemical symbols, an astrological symbol and an original symbol inspired from arabic.

Good eye on the darker pixels. The whole thing goes on a night-sky background and so those were left in to blend with it. I didn't feel right using transparency here for them just because it would have introduced a new color (The transparent sections are normally just the darker cyan). But yeah, I totally worked on a darker background to help for readability.

Hope that clears things up!

Thanks! The lowest I could get it without turning adjacent pixels the same color or simplifying the animation was about 42 and it just didn't seem worth the work to lose some of the smoothness of the piece. I stared at it for a while and finally said "50 will do."

Thanks! As I worked on it, I had to keep convincing myself "this is worth the work, it's a small touch in the game but people who like pixel art will think it's cool.."

I loved it when you were working on this on stream and I love it twice as much now.