Eclipse Tactics, an online turn based strategy game designed by Pixel Joint member Gecimen, is now live and looking for testers. Many acknowledged PJ artists, such as Nvision, Victor Rojo, Eyadan, Xion night, a3um, iSTVAN, LuckyF and On.Off have taken part in this pixel art heavy project. Be sure to check it out @ www.eclipsetactics.com
Recently the Moai statues on Easter Island have been found out to have undiscovered parts under the ground. Create an image depicting what you think is buried in the ground.
Canvas size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Max 15.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.
Create a new and original mock-up of a word game - a video game that focuses on spelling words. A couple of examples are Bookworm Adventures and Typing of the Dead.
Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Max 32.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.
Design a single playing card from a new and original pack of cards - any type of playing card is acceptable; consider looking at Tarot cards or Magic: The Gathering as inspiration.
Canvas size - Exactly 88 (width) x 120 (height).
Colours - Max 18.
Transparency - Optional. Only outside the edges. Your card doesn't strictly need to be rectangular.
Animation - No.
Last week was about what we used the most. And this week the challenge will be about what we use the least: Shoes! Draw a shoe - or a pair of them, either as a sprite or as the focal point of a scene. You can go crazy with what kind of shoes you want to draw.
Canvas Size - Max. 110x110 px
Colours - Max. 14 colors.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - No.
It's time to vote for the latest pixel art challenge: Frenemies.
VOTE NOW!
It's April Fools' Day; so, for this week, we want you to come up with an image that looks innocent/cute from the preview but actually turns out to be something scary/creepy/unexpected . The preview image must be taken directly from part of the actual image.
Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Max 32.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for March 2013. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
Create a new and original avatar depicting the portrait of a celebrity.
Optional bonus challenge: Use the avatar during the voting week.
Canvas Size - Max. 64x64.
Colours - Max 9.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for April 2013. 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 2013. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
Create an animation of an effect. For example, an explosion or an acid splash.
Canvas Size - Max 100 x 100.
Colours - Max 10.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Required.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for June 2013. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
Create an original image depicting a pet creature (realistic or fantasy) that isn't supposed to be domesticated.
Canvas Size - Max 250 x 150.
Colours - Max 24.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.
Create an image whose height is 3 times its width and depicts a scene that contains both underground, ground and sky.
Canvas Size - Unrestricted, height should be 3 times the width.
Colours - Unrestricted.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.
PJs latest isometric collaborative project with underwater theme featuring Dennis' award winning palette is finally complete.
72 tiles, 42 participants, assembled between December 14, 2011 and July 31, 2013.
The final image can be seen HERE
Thanks to everyone who participated in this collab and provided so much help to others in this 15 page thread. Special thanks to major contributors, cure with 7 tiles, Jalonso with 6 tiles and moondrome with 5 tiles.
Stay tuned for our next collab!
Time for another Pixeljoint palette comp which is open to everyone and is quite simple.
Submit your 13 color unique & original palette.
You must name the HEX values and NO black - 000000 or white - FFFFFF
The winning palette will be used in PJs next collab and a spiffy trophy added to your profile.
+1000 Pts
+500 Pts
+250 Pts
+100 Pts
*honorable mentions may be given for this contest as needed.
See the forum thread to post your entry and read the rules HERE
Contest closes on Thursday, September 5, 2013. OPEN!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for July 2013. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
Create an image that depicts the insides of a body. This could be inside a human body or any other organic creature's body. Examples: A vast wildernes within the brain or a platformer set inside a mouth.
Canvas Size - Max 200 x 200.
Colours - Unrestricted.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.
Create a jumping animation of a character based on food. You can make a relevant background if you wish.
Canvas size - Max 100x100.
Colours - Max 14.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Required.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for September 2013. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
Create an image that depicts a person or an animal with overly elastic limbs, either bent, stretched or both.
Canvas size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Max 14.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for October 2013. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
Create an image that depicts two gods of separate mythologies (choose two from Egyptian, Greek, Norse or Indian mythologies) in dispute. Fighting, gambling, arguing or anything goes.
Canvas size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Max 14.
Animation - No.
Transparency - No.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for November 2013. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
Well, it's New Year (or thereabouts) - the perfect time for colourful pyrotechnics. So, this week, create a scene that depicts fireworks exploding.
Optional Bonus Challenge: Make the scene look like new year's eve.
Canvas size - Max 250 x 250.
Colours - Max 20.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Create a sprite base and at least 4 different versions with costume/hair/feature/equipment variants (for a total of 5 sprites). The base doesn't have to be human and/or anything conventional.
Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Max 32.
Transparency - Required.
Animation - No.
For the Valentine's Day, create an image that shows what happens after (few days or many decades, up to you) a tale, movie, novel, ends with a supposedly "happily ever after" scene. If you're having a hard time thinking of something, you can check out this list.
Canvas Size - Max 250 x 150 (horizontal or vertical).
Colours - Max 14.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for January 2014. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
Challenge winner, vrine, wants you to create a piece including a creature that is a mix between your favourite animal and least favourite animal. Both animals must be distinguishable in your design.
Canvas Size - Max 300 x 300.
Colours - Max 20.
Transparency - Yes.
Animation - Optional.
...Veronica Darkwater wants to get off her podunk little planet and into space. She yearns for grand adventures and excitement. She doesn't yet realize the bounty she just took in is going to lead to all of these things, and much more than she bargained for...
Full-pixel art space-western digital comic Nova Phase, written by Matthew Ritter and illustrated by PJ member Adam Elbahtimy is out!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for February 2014. 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 2014. 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 2014. 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 2014. 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 June 2014. 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 2014. 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 2014. 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 2014. 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 2014. 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 November 2014. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
The Internet Archive has just archived 2400 MS-DOS games in a repository. All of these games are playable via stream in any browser with save / load options included. There are many highlights, what is yours?
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for December 2014. 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 2015. 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 2015. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
Time for another Pixeljoint palette comp which is open to everyone and is quite simple.
Submit your 16 color unique + original palette. Hex values must be included.
The winning palette will be used in PJs next forum collab and a spiffy trophy added to your profile.
+1000 Pts+500 Pts +250 Pts+100 Pts
* Honorable mentions may be given for this contest as needed.
See the forum thread to post your entry and read the rules HERE
Comp closes, April 29, 2015. CLOSED!
Pixeljoint is proud to present you yet another much-anticipated artist feature with long time PJ member and multi-award winner, vierbit! While mostly silent, most of you know and admire his pixelart. Today, we break the silence!
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for April 2015. 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 2015. 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 June 2015. 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 2015. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
Finally, we bring you PJ's long time top hall of fame piece owner Snake - and it turns out he has a lot to say: Below you will see several months of talk, about pixels, universe, and everything.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for October 2015. 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 December 2015. 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 2016. 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 2016. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
PJs latest isometric collaborative project is complete in record time! Famous science & discovery breakthroughs and science fiction all found their place in this collab.
98 tiles, 32 different participants, assembled between June 12, 2015 and March 30, 2016.
The final image can be seen HERE
Thanks to everyone who participated in this collab and provided so much help to others in this 20 page thread. Thanks to DawnBringer once again for his award winning palette and top contributors Mirre & sjhwi1a for their amazing tiles that inspired & boosted everyone.
It seems we skipped to post Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for March 2016. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
There's only a few days until Owlboy -a game from DPad Studios founded by PJ member Snake- is released! In this special competition, we want you to design your own Owlboy poster. While you can use character designs and locations from Owlboy, you have to pixel everything yourself, including the title.
Top three entrants will win a copy of the game plus unique tropies for their profiles.
The Owlboy poster competition will be closed app. 15 hours from now. Don't miss the chance to win unique tropies for your PJ profiles and a copy of the game!
Edit: Competition is over. Winners will be announced soon(ish).
Congrats to the top three winners of our Owlboy competition, you guys all win a Steam copy of the game! Also, well done to our two runners up. Thanks to all who participated.
Owlboy Comp by amika
Owlboy comp by zch
PJs latest isometric collaborative project with post apocalypse theme featuring mordfikosz's award winning palette is complete in a new record time of 7 months!
98 tiles, 42 participants, assembled between May 21, 2016 and December 25, 2016.
The final image can be seen HERE.
Thanks to everyone who participated in this collab and provided so much help to others in this 18 page thread. Special thanks to top contributors Irenaart & sjhwi1a for their amazing tiles that inspired & boosted everyone.
Stay tuned for our next collab!
Pixeljoint is holding another palette competition which is open to everyone and is quite simple.
Submit your 22 color unique + original color palette.
The winning palette will be used in PJs next ISOcollab, and an additional palette will be chosen to be used in a side collab.
Add a rare trophy to your profile.
Competition closes in 2 weeks, February 14, 2017. (OPEN!)
Forum Thread HERE
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for February 2017. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
PJs next isometric collaboration has begun in the forum.
This time, we are going to build a pirate island(s). First time this round, the borders must end with water. Anything related to the general pirate feel is cool. Several examples are: caves, buildings, forts, piers, ships (floating or not), pirates 
, palms, treasures, ghosts, skeletons, and any fantasy element as long as they are pirate-y.
Welcome to the ISObbean. Yaaaarrrrrr!
This project features Dawnbringer's's award winning palette.
Read all the details and the project rules HERE
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