Buck & Miles - A cross-platform 2D platformer
Recently had the luxury to randomly encounter and chat with one of the developers of this game.

Create a portrait of yourself as if you were mutated by radioactivity. As this is a portrait, you should not show anything below the shoulders.

Feel free to post a comparison photo of the real you, if you like.

Optional bonus challenge: Use the preview as your avatar for the challenge week. Keep in mind that Avatars are a maximum of 64 x 64.

Canvas Size - Max 80 x 80.
Colours - Max 19.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

Miner Warfare is a multiplayer-madness-shootemup-arena-digging-hell filled with you, your friends (up to 8 players with only 4 controllers!), minepicks and bullets, bombs, tnt, exploding bananas, miniguns and atomic bombs and a Graal too.

Americana Dawn, a game that I've (Jinn) been helping with just launched a kickstarter campaign today and entered Steam Greenlight recently.

Hi guys, registrations are open until the 24th for Pixelation's annual Secret Santa. Have at it!

http://wayofthepixel.net/index.php?topic=17419

The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for October 2014. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.

 

Adjusted Steamfantry by Cyangmou

Windgust Bay by Mrmo Tarius

Unwritten Tales 1993 by vierbit

work in progress (donkeycart tiles) by tomic

Fishing For Light by SoraAkihiru

Dumbo retired by Fool

Sirdeka Town by NoeL

Phoenotopia II - Earth Dome mockup by NoeL

Army Base and Night City levels mockup by Sohei

Spotted (Jontron titlecard) by Frario

To celebrate what would be Benoit Mandelbrot's 90th birthday on the 20th november, this week's challenge features a Mandelbrot Set shaped canvas:

No theme, just create something within the canvas. You may flip or rotate the canvas however you want (as long as you stick to 90 degree angles).

Canvas Size - Use the template above.
Colours - Max 26.
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.

Attention PixelChat Nation!

Today begins a new chapter at PixelChat as we develop contests designed to keep users involved with the app as well as one another. We are excited to see our pixel artist’s creativity at work! This is the first of many contests we plan on having. As PixelChat grows the events and prizes will grow with us!

Inspired by this series of images by Austin Light: create a scene or mock-up representing an already existing video game title with one letter (or number) missing. You can also modify punctuation and spacing (the letter order needs to stay the same though).

Make sure you mention what the original game title is.

Examples:

• Steroids
• Dad Island
• Wario War

Canvas Size - Max 320 (width) x 200 (height).
Colours - Max 16.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

PixelResources is a group on DeviantArt that focuses on gathering and sharing both free and paid pixel art assets. Our goal is to help artists get their work noticed and developers to find what they need.

The latest collection of PJer finds, creations and other stuff.

Check them out here

The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package. Containing hundreds of games ranging through many different genres and styles, the Arcade provides research, comparison, and entertainment in the realm of the Video Game Arcade.

The game collection ranges from early "bronze-age" videogames, with black and white screens and simple sounds, through to large-scale games containing digitized voices, images and music. Most games are playable in some form, although some are useful more for verification of behavior or programming due to the intensity and requirements of their systems.

Depict some form of racing. It can be any kind of race: a horse race, a kart race, an egg and spoon race, etc...

Canvas Size - Max 200 (width) x 125 (height).
Colours - Max 24.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.