The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for April 2022.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
Don't forget to comment on the pieces you like!
Another collab project has been completed over at the PJ Discord, the street collab.
View the result here at the Wepixel gallery, under construction by Umbohr.
There are too many houses to talk about all of them, but to name a few we have the very first house of the street made by Taks:
And Gawrone's Art Gallery, winner of the Non-residentiall weekly challenge:
And last but certainly not least, the very last house of the street, made by Weerdmeester:
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for March 2022.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
Don't forget to comment on the pieces you like!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for February 2022.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for January 2022.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
(moderator note) Wowza, our last awards of 2021! Last year was full of challenges, and I don't just mean the weeklies...but it was also marked by an astonishing amount of master-class pixel art produced by Pixel Joint artists new and old. I hope as we celebrate these top 10 works from December, we also take a moment to appreciate everyone who created art last year, and contributed to keeping this community vibrant.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for December 2021.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
Greetings! And Happy New Year!
I put together a little survey for pixel artists (and beyond) to try to get some insight on our communities. It includes things such as what software you use, when you started, what communities you use most, etc. At the end we'll release an overview of the data we've collected with everyone.
So if you have time, please take this quick google survey.
Thanks!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for November 2021.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
Hello again! 
You can now browse through the Secret Santa Gift post, available on the PJ forums:
https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27286
Happy holidays and see you next year 
Over at the PJ Discord we did a collaboration using a painting as a template.
Hohoho!
This year's Secret Santa gifts will be revealed on stream, before being added to the PixelJoint gallery!
The stream will take place on:
December 23rd, 3PM CET
At:
https://www.twitch.tv/chrisdballs
See you there 
This year's Secret Santa is now open!
For those who have signed up to the event, you have until December 22nd to finish your gifts!
Follow these submission instructions carefully, to not spoil any surprises:
Deep within Pine Cone Forest, the adventurous Ayla and her adoring dog Falafel often made their coolest discoveries. Until one day, deep inside the forest, Ayla and Falafel stumbled upon an ominous, steel-and-stone tower... Now Falafel is being held captive by maniacal Dr. Kobushi and his henchmen and Ayla has to save him through 100+ levels of mind boggling labyrinthine levels.
With 100% pixel art graphics by Gecimen, Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory is now on Kickstarter! Be sure to check it out!
One of the best pixel activities of the year, Pixelation's annual Secret Santa will be held once again on Pixel Joint this year, due to circumstances (of course with permission from its previous organiser, Atnas). If you'd like to participate all you need to do is hit on this thread and type "I'm in" and note what you'd like or wouldn't like from your Santa this Christmas.
Make sure to sign up before December 6th.
Please only sign up if you are absolutely certain you can finish your gift. Have fun!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for October 2021.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
I drew a set of pixel cards, you can find them in my gallery, and in October I got them printed on professional Casino Classic material. Before selling them all over the world I would like to hold the giveaway, so you can win one of 3 decks!
Be a winner of #okee playing cards in the give away on Twitter
Just RT and FOLLOW to win!
Results in December 4 at 18:00 GMT on my YouTube
Three decks will be given to some of my followers randomly. Take part and get a chance to win one of them!
This year you all submitted 550 Pixelween posters to Pixel Joint, that is insane! Congratulations to all of you!
The results were streamed live, watch back the video here on YouTube to get all of the details:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvtOJ7egFFA
You can view all of the franchises with at least 2 posters here.
Judging all of these entries was nearly impossible. Luckily we have an amazing team who pulled it off:
Prowler, the creator of the Masters of Pixel Art books
NeoBerserker, the moderator at PixelDalies
PJ members Cyangmou, DawnBringer, Mrmo_Tarius, Irenaart, Vierbit, SovanJedi, StevenM, Skeddles, Fool
With all that being said, and with real prizes to be given away, I'm sure you're excited who the winners are. So read on!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for September 2021.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
Pixelween has returned from its slumber, and it promises rewards for those who endure its horrors!
This year, you will be crafting posters of your own horror film series over the course of four consecutive weekly challenges. Each challenge will be one more part of your series, and all the posters together shall be your Pixelween entry. Call forth your darkest nightmares!
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 24, the final deadline. Having a complete set is not required to win, but the fates favor a finished franchise.
The winning posters will be chosen from all eligible entries by a jury of select PixelJoint members, perhaps with the help of some dark outsiders who for now remain in the shadows...
The weeklies also function as normal weeklies, with the usual prizes. Your success in the weeklies does not influence your chances in Pixelween judging.
Every week there will be a new theme and more colors you can use, and for every poster the canvas size will be 80x120.
Prizes:
There are 3 Aseprite, 3 Pixaki, and 3 Pro Motion keys, which will be divided among the top 9 entrants. 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.
The winning posters shall be announced on the 31st of October.
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: The Beginning (September 27th - October 3rd)
The second challenge will run from October 4th - 10th
The third challenge will run from October 11th - 17th
The fourth challenge will run from October 18th - 24th
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 posters are posted as part of a weekly challenge within the deadline.
Will you terrify the judges? Will you show them something hauntingly beautiful?
Should you feel frightened on your own, the community is here for you in the challenge forum threads and in the Pixelween channel on the PJ Discord. You're welcome to share your WIPs, so that we may conquer our fears together!
You can find the results of the 2020 Pixelween here.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for August 2021.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
It's soon to be that time of year to conquer canvas without fear.
Four new missions in a row, face-off many friend and foe.
Take off with me, Sept 27. Victors shall find pixel-heaven.
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! 
The collab will feature Irenaart's award winning palette, Magnifiso-19.
First 10 tiles can be picked from anywhere (but the borders), be sure to reserve yours now!
Join the collab HERE!
The 19 color palette competition for CarnISOl ends! Phew what a competition. All entries (except one but I won't tell whom) got votes from at least 3 judges, in the end most of them forcing their way into the top 3.... Excepft for Irenaart's Magnifiso-19 which got almost double the points of its closest competitor(s) - Christoballs' Biome19 and SeDiceBisonte's Coney Island, whom shared the second place with exact same points.
Thanks to each of the all-star judge team - all of whom that took their time to examine all the entrants closely: Reo, Cyangmou, Vierbit, Jeremy, Wolfenoctis, Trick17, StevenM in addition to two moderator judges, Gecimen and Hapiel.
The winning palette will be used in the upcoming iso collab CarnISOl starting.... TODAY!
Irenaart - Magnifiso19
SeDiceBisonte - ConeyIsland
Christoballs - Biome19 
Drea - Handsome19 
Dawnbringer - AMUZE-ISO19 
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for July 2021.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
Pixeljoint is holding another palette competition which is open to everyone and is quite simple.
Submit your 19 color unique + original color palette.
The winning palette will be used in PJs next Isometric collab: CarnISOl - which is about amusement park, zoo and circus. Other award winning palettes may also be used in other events and challenges.
Add a rare trophy to your profile.
Competition closes in 2 weeks, August 25, 2021. (CLOSED
The latest of Pixeljoint's traditional ISO collabs, ISOrd & ISOrcery just got complete! 27 different participants, made 98 tiles in only 4 months 24 days - which is a record hard to beat. Not to mention the final result is nothing short of amazing! Many thanks to all the participants who made this real! Special thanks to Reo who provided the palette (and made great use of it), gawrone and cjlm123 who made 15 tiles each!
Please stay tuned for the color competition for the next collab - CarnISOl! The theme which consists of amusement park, circus and zoo elements, was suggested and decided by frequent collab participants this time.
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!
And July's most favourited award goes to:
came2slide
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for June 2021.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
After a lot of tinkering, from the depths of my secret Blender quantum-pseudo-pixelart laboratory, I have released a shader(material)-based CRT emulation process for Blender that aims to recreate the "feel" of CRT monitors.
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 
And June's most favourited award goes to:
came2slide
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for May 2021.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
The Longest Road on Earth is out on Steam and Android/iOS! It's a monochromatic pixel art adventure published by RawFury and developed by Brainwash Gang. The game features four different wordless narratives with a collection of heartfelt songs. Pixel art has been developed by pixel artists Edu Verz and Atskaheart. Music has been made by Beicoli.
The game combines different shots, from open panoramic city views to detailed descriptive close ups. Pixel art has been the best visual approach to produce this contrast between suggestion and description by playing with different resolutions.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for April 2021.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
Over the last few weeks, Pixel Dailies was hosting a massive collaboration called "Pixel Tactics", and more than 300 entries were made!
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
And April's most favourited award goes to:
andylittle
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The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for March 2021.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
Are you a lvl 1 
or a level 3 
? You no longer need to stick to these ancient default ranking themes, the Pixel Joint community just added 16(!) brand new rank themes.
I am sure there is one that fits your interests, there are now themes like
Botany 
, Chess
, Pastries 
, Cthulhu 
, and many many more.
Check them all out on the ranking faq page, and then select your favorite on the edit profile page.
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
And March's most favourited award goes to:
vierbit
Hey everyone, the game I helped work on, REM Cycles, releases today!
This turn-based tactics rogue-like adventure features 10 playable characters, a fun pixel aesthetic, and a very funky soundtrack. Explore the world of dreams, confront a mysterious antagonist, and witness over 50 support conversations between characters as you search for meaning in sleep.
I worked on this project with the talented developer Danny, a quick quipped writer, Emily and an upbeat composer, Felix!
Find it on Steam here!
PJs next isometric collaboration has begun in the forum.
This time, the theme is medieval, including all medieval culture from all over the world and medieval fantasy (D&D, LOTRish stuff).
It's time to get medieval!
From now on, the collab contributors will be awarded with the brand new award icons.
for all contributors
for the participant with the most contribution
Note: these awards are also given for our previous collab.
This project features Reo's award winning palette.
Read all the details and the project rules HERE!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for February 2021.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
The Johto Redrawn collaborative project is a pixel art re-imagining of the Johto region, from the Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal games, released between 1997 and 2001 on Gameboy and Gameboy Color.
The goal of the project was to redraw the entire Johto region in the contirbutors' own sprite styles, not unlike a reanimation collab.
It was started and coordinated by pixel artists audrey, Dewdneym, Foofarawr and PJ user Zaebucca!
The project has now reached a close, so you can look at the whole map on its dedicated website:
http://retroredrawn.com/johto/
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
And February's most favourited award goes to:
Wolfenoctis
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for January 2021.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
Our latest collab Planet ISO is finally complete. Gawrone has become the all time record breaker with an incredible number of 19 tiles in total!!
The new palette compo for our next ISO collab -which is medieval themed- has already begun, be sure to participate!
You can drop the name suggestions for the medieval collab here. The only rule is that it has to have ISO within the name just like our previous collabs - ISOtopes, PrehISOria and such.
Submit your 14 color unique + original color palette HERE!
The winning palette will be used in PJs next ISOcollab and for the first time, we are revealing the theme beforehand: MEDIEVAL. Other award winning palettes may also be used in other events and challenges.
This is also your chance to add a rare trophy to your profile.
Competition closes in 2 weeks, February 28, 2021. (
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 
And January's most favourited award goes to:
Fool
I've built a tool that allows you to browse the Pixel Joint gallery by searching for colors. It's online and free, go play with it!
Here is also a video demonstration of how you might use it.
I hope you like it!
Special thanks to all the many PJers who helped test this during the creation.
Our current collab Planet ISO has only 4 tiles to go out of 98. Be sure to grab those last tiles before it runs out. However its ending also heralds the new palette compo for the new collab, which is soooooon!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for December 2020.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
Lospec (most known for their pixel art palettes database) has launched a kickstarter to fund an online gallery!
The gallery will let people share pixel art, chiptune, voxel art, low-poly, textmode and more! Our goal is to make the website as easy to use as possible, and display low-spec art without compression or scaling!
Learn more on our campaign page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skeddles/lospec-gallery
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
And December's most favourited award goes to:
andylittle
Happy new year!
To celebrate the new year, we'll host boardgame sessions over at the PJ Discord. Come meet your fellow PJers and join us for a quick game of connect-4, chess, uno, or one of the many other games in our library!
Games will only be online until January 3rd, from on January 4th it will be all about pixel art again.
See you there!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for November 2020.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
And Novembers's most favourited award goes to:
andylittle
One of the best pixel activities of the year, Pixelation's annual Secret Santa will be held on Pixel Joint this year, due to circumstances (of course with permission from its previous organiser, Atnas). If you'd like to participate all you need to do is hit on this thread and type "I'm in" and note what you'd like or wouldn't like from your Santa this christmas.
Make sure to sign up before December 6th.
Please only sign up if you are absolutely certain you can finish your gift. Have fun!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for October 2020.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
PixelJoint is now going to give two new monthly awards!
There'll be:
andylittle
Over the past 4 weeks you guys have absolutely blown us away by the amazing number of Pixelween entries and their al-round high quality! 55 entries, 84 people who participated to some extend and 226 images in total. That is insane, in the best possible way! Thank you!
How did you like the event? Would you join in if we did this next year? What would you like different? Let us know in the comments of this post.
Judging 55 entries is nearly impossible. Luckily we have an amazing team who pulled it off:
Pixelblink, the organiser of Pixelween 2005 - 2007
Prowler, the creator of the Masters of Pixel Art books
NeoBerserker, the moderator at PixelDalies
Ali Aydin, a TV director / writer (it was a storyboard compo, after all!)
PJ members: Cure, Cyangmou, DawnBringer, Mrmo_Tarius
And your moderators: Gecimen, Irena, Christoballs
With all that being said, and with real prizes to be given away, I'm sure you're excited who the winners are. So read on!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for September 2020.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
Pixelween has awoken from its slumber, and it promises rewards for those who endure its horrors!
This year, you will be crafting the storyboard of your own horror film over the course of four consecutive weekly challenges. Each challenge will be one more part of your film, and all the scenes together shall be your Pixelween entry. Call forth your darkest nightmares!
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 25, the final deadline. Having a full storyboard is not required to win, but the fates favor a finished film.
The winning storyboards will be chosen from all eligible entries by a jury of select PixelJoint members, perhaps with the help of some dark attendants who for now remain in the shadows...
The weeklies also function as normal weeklies, with the usual prizes. Your success in the weeklies does not influence your chances in Pixelween judging.
Every week there will be specifications about theme and color use, and for every scene the canvas size will be 130x80.
Prizes:
There are 3 Aseprite, 3 Pyxel Edit, and 3 Pro Motion keys, which will be divided among the top 9 entrants. 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.
Something stirs in the bowels of Pixel Joint. Something long thought dead.
In the darkness, the faint glow of pixels glimmers.
On September 28th, these unknown pixels shall break free, spilling their horrors out into the world. Bind them, and you may be rewarded.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for August 2020.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for July 2020.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
PJ member SovanJedi did all the major pixel art in this pretty amazing music video!
Check out: The Living Tombstone - Love I Need
Do you have a perfect idea for a weekly challenge? Something that is well defined/restricted, but still open to creativity? We would love to use it!
We've made this forum thread where you can submit your idea, or comment with suggested improvements on others. There is no guarantee on if/when/how we might use it, to keep the upcoming challenges exciting and fair for everyone. But if "your" challenge takes place, you are of course welcome to take part too!
We have opened an official discord server!
Discord is a chatting service, and we have opened the server to talk about pixel art, get quick feedback, or just general chat about games, hobbies, or anything else you wish to share with fellow PJ members! Right now we are a group of 20 people, and we wish to keep it relatively small, cozy and friendly.
The server is for PixelJoint members only.
Click this link to join! We're looking forward to see you inside :)
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for June 2020.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for May 2020.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for April 2020.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for March 2020.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for February 2020.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for January 2020.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
Veteran pixel artist Henk Nieborg has just released his first Kickstarter project; Battle Axe: a pixel-art arcade adventure!
The Gauntlet-style hack'n slash game features beautifully drawn pixel art and will be released on all consoles, PC and Mac.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for December 2019.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
Mazgeon website is now live! You can stay tuned from now and on about any upcoming update:
mazgeon.com
Mazgeon is a Dungeon Roguelike game that has been in development for +3 years, and now is going Closed beta through Steam before full release soon.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for November 2019.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for October 2019.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for September 2019.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for August 2019.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
Pixel art metroidvania game Savior launches its Kickstarter with a new extended trailer. Savior is planned to come out on Windows and Mac, and Switch and additional consoles, pending the completion of Kickstarter stretch goals. Launch dates are TBA. Savior is built by Starsoft, a small group of passionate industry veterans with dozens of years of experience between them. The awesome art is made by pixel artists led by PJ member Weston.
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