I see what you mean and I agree.
I was working under a very restricted pallette, so when I wanted to use e.g. the darkest purple for the rabbit, I was left with none to AA those areas. 

There are tricks for these things, but the whole picture uses very "clean" colors, so I didn't want to use grey or blue or something like that.

I snuck one in as well. This challenge actually inspired me to do an original painting from scratch just for this.
And in turn the painting inspired me to a game. I just hope I can convince my programmer/slave to actually do it.
Enough talk:
www.threadless.com/designs/mechapede
 

 I love skitty - too bad it sux!

Your pixel skills does not! 

@ Qemist: I think I made a new post instead of using the "reply" button...

 This piece is great! I especially like little "HUD" in the corner. One small concern though... The sunshine from the bottom window doesn't seem to match the size and shape of the top window, although the frame indicates they are the same kind of window. It's kinda assumed the bottom window also has curtains.

Regarding colours... Just imagine what platform you would be making the game to. NES or C64? 16 colours. Snes or Amiga? Like 256 colours? See where I'm going with this? ;-)

@ Qemist: don't remember the name. It was for a cell phone and you were using a parashute some of the time. Som action shooting game. I only saw like 10 seconds. Does that description fit your game? :-)

 rawr!!! That's all I got to say to this piece! Merry Christmas!!!

 A strange and beautiful picture. The background lacks the complexity of the roots. Those areas with pure blue is just too simple and draws attention to themselves.

 I like this very much, but I think the part with the grass in right bottom corner looks out of place. It's like the perspective changes once we get out of the city.

Dickorama... thee hee! 

Your piece is very well pixeled with a great pallette. I do however have a few comments:

Personally I'm not too keen on the stylized "ground" and background. I find it to be distracting from your othervice beautiful trees and bushes. Looks like he's on a stage with props.

His pose with the hand is a little weird. Hard to read what he is doing. Looks like he is either stroking the tree in the back, or like he just don't give a f***! 

Finally I think you should rework the letters in the top so they aren't so dithered. They get a rough texture and I think you'd want them to be more smooth and shiny.

 Great game. I really like how I can pick up random stuff! I do however have a couple of complaints/ideas:

Replace the red baloons with something black, like floating sea mines. The baloons simply look too much like pickups. I keep banging into them again and again. It's psycological man!

Same with trees. Replace them with some kind of building. They don't look like something you can crash into.

I was kinda dissapointed by the shop. Is it unfinished? Maybe you should make it available from the start so you can see what you are risking your life for. Especially if it's only skins and nothing that affects gameplay.

And finally. All levels should have 3 seconds without any attacks in the beginning. In one stage i died instantly because I had the mouse in the wrong place from start.

Keep polishing this! It has great potential :-)

Yes, kinda had an idea for a game where you would change size.

This is simply SPECTACULAR! No less! Great work! How are you going to animate them? Fluent animations or just simple 2-frame-animations like original?

Facebook? No sir, I don't like it!

It's the principle. We should not have to log on to play an online browser game like that. Also "verifying your age" and "accepting terms" are ridiculous concepts anyway.

Excatly Kurt: Who CAN'T make a dummy acount in eight seconds?

Not on the preview

Other than that, it looks awesome!

And why DID gameboy games have so shitty graphics?

Interesting challenge. But what are the restrictions for what we can do with the eggs? Can they be colored/decorated/camouflaged, or must they remain as is, with only one color? Or is it "anything goes" as long as it's obvious that THAT is an egg, using so-called common sense?

Looks amazing, but can't help but feel the clamp should opening and closeing.

While the houses are nicely drawn, that background is just terrible... It's like an optical illusion that makes everything wavy! 

Awesome. Great work of art :-)

Han Solo looks a little derp - rest is awesome :-D

I liked it a lot :-)

Only played a little while though... Is there more than the one level and does the difficulty ever increase?

wow... simply wow...

This is truly masterful use of an othervice terrible palette. Well done.

No zombies or witches so far, but I'm in the middle of making a sexy she-devil

Actually I've tweaked her a bit since I uploaded this. Maybe I should upload the new version... later...