Boo! It's that time of the year again. The spooky artsy time for Pixelween!
This year, you will be crafting 4 landscapes that connect horizontally over the course of four consecutive weekly challenges. Each weekly challenge will bring a new type of spooky landscape that connects with the previous one on the right side. All of the scenes added together as a horizontal panorama shall be your Pixelween entry.
Rules:
To be eligible for the Pixelween prizes, you must submit to at least 2 of the 4 weeklies. As long as at least two of your submissions are on time, you are allowed (but not required) to submit more up until October 26th, the final deadline. Technically having a complete set is not required to win, but the fates favor a finished horizontal panorama.
The winning entries will be chosen from all eligible entries by a jury of select PixelJoint members, with the help of some dark outsiders who for now remain in the shadows...
The weeklies also function as normal weekly challenges, with the usual prizes. Your success in the weeklies does not influence your chances in Pixelween judging.
There will be a fifth bonus challenge that can be added onto your entry but isn't part of the judging.
This year the chosen ghoulishly great palette is Azahar Streets by ParadoxWhimsy.
Prizes:
From these, the highest placing winners get to choose first, and if a winner does not need a software license it will be moved on to the 10th place, and so on.
This year RankOne Global is sponsoring PixelJoint with Steam gift cards. RankOne Global is a social network for gamers, streamers, and game enthusiasts. It lets you connect with other gamers, share your game collections (from all platforms) and build a gaming profile. Here is my profile for example.
The winning entries shall be announced as soon as possible after the deadline.
All who participate shall earn the rare Pixelween trophy.
How to enter:
To participate, your works need to be submitted to the Pixel Joint challenges, details are in the challenge posts:
The first challenge is: An Unexpected Guest (September 29th - October 5th)
The second challenge will run from October 6th - 12th
The third challenge will run from October 13th - 19th
The fourth challenge will run from October 20th - 26th
Bonus round will run from October 27th - November 2nd
If you've missed out on one of the challenges you can still submit your entry to Pixel Joint, as long as at least 2 of the scenes are posted as part of a weekly challenge within the deadline. While it probably won't be necessary, poking one of the moderators when you post your entry after its challenge deadline is a good idea.
How will you terrify and haunt the judges? Show us something deviously bewitching!
Should you feel too frightened on your own, the community is there to hold your hand in the challenge forum threads and in the Pixelween channel on the PJ Discord. Show your WIPs to tackle the threats together!
You can find the results of the 2020 Pixelween here.
You can find the results of the 2021 Pixelween here.
You can find the results of the 2022 Pixelween here.
You can find the results of the 2023 Pixelween here.
You can find the results of the 2024 Pixelween here.
For those who are new on Pixel Joint:
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