Don't forget to comment on the pieces you like! Not only does a comment have the potential to make the artist's day, if you post a lot you'll win one of the fancy new trophies!
Take a deep dive in your pixel art folders, and excavate all the challenge pieces left there in the darkness. Bring them to life.
Finish any unfinished and yet unsubmitted challenge entry from 2025 or make a new entry for a challenge from 2025 you wanted to participate in, but couldn't.
You can make your choice by going to Weekly Challenges and checking the column on the right. The first challenge of the 2025 was "Happy News Year". Please write in the artwork description which challenge you have chosen, and make sure you follow it's rules and limitations. You can make more than one entries for more than one challenge.
Canvas Size - see the corresponding challenge
Colours - see the corresponding challenge
Transparency - see the corresponding challenge
Animation - see the corresponding challenge
Happy new year, Pixel Joint! After some delays, all 61 gifts from this years secret santa are finally compiled in one place on the Forum. This year, we can boast about zero dropouts and a record number of orb-shaped presents! There's a lot to love in this years entries, so make sure to look thorugh all of them:
Secret Santa 2025 - Gifts!
If you enter the specific challenge page and look at the URL you will find a number. This is the number of the challenge and we have just reached 2000. If you also think this is amazing pelase celebrate the 2000th Pixel Joint challenge with us by creating your own!
Design your own challenge and submitt an entry following your own rules. Try to be as clear and precise as possible so everyone could follow the rules you wrote, not only you, and most importantly, the mods can verify if you are actually following your own challenge rules and qualify to be accepted. Include the standard of 4 characteristics at the end.
Canvas Size - It can be precised by "exactly", more flexible using "min", "max" or completely open.
Colors - Use a palette created by yourself or chosen form online sources, limit the colours in any other (understandable) manner or leave the palette restricted only by the general PJ rules.
Transparency - Can be "required", "optional" or "forbidden".
Animation - Can be "required", "optional" or "forbidden".
A quick note for the secret santas:
The deadline for submissions have been extended to mid-day on the 26th (UTC+1). If you cannot deliver by then, please contact Mirre anyway to let her know.
The gift reveal stream will be Was held on the 27th on Mirres Twitch channel. Watch the broadcast here!
Every Secret Santa, many artists makes unique and wonderful custom wrappings. This challenge is to make it easier and less boring for people, who can't make their own, because lack of time or other reasons.
Create a Secret Santa gift wrapping template for future use, so all the artists have a library of ready-made wrappings. It needs to be a relatively simple design, that is easy to recolour, edit, and decorate. A simple box with a ribbon is prefferable, but if you have a more creative idea, go for it, however keep in mind that this wrapping needs to be versitile and universal, so it can be used by everyone, for every possible gift, that will be gifted to anyone.
You have to use a christmas 3 main colour scheme of dark green, red and gold as a base of your palette. You can choose your own colours and add couple of shades when needed, but you need at least one red, one green and one golden. You also need to add white outline (any "white" as a lightest colour will do), and you have to use transparency, since it needs to be a sprite.
Canvas Size - Max 100x100.
Colors - Max 12 because December (at least one green, red, gold + "white" outline and transparency).
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional (don't make it too difficult to use by future secret santas).
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
