Links, resources, games and fun stuff to help you justify why you haven't pixelled lately

PJer Naraxis just released his pixelart mini-game on the Play Store.

To celebrate Towel Day, depict a character/creature holding, wearing, or otherwise using a towel.

optional bonus challenge: depict someone using towel for survival or violence.

Canvas Size - Max 128 x 128.
Colours - Max 25.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.

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.

 

Breath of Fire 7 by Snake

Brickhouse Island experimental tileset by Mrmo Tarius

Irkalla Mech by Skydsgaard

BattleGame: Mhyre's Grotto by Thu

Shootmans III by inphy

Booty Warriors by FlyGuy

Light by offwhite

Alien -Whisper of the home- by andylittle

Bike Assault In-game Screenshot by albertov

Slayer dude by JJ Naas

Nitrome is running it's first ever game Jam between the 2nd and the 6th of June.

In memoriam of the miners in Soma, Turkey; this week, we want you to create a cross-section image of an underground structure. It can be anything from an actual mine to a fantasy lair or sci-fi base.

Canvas size - Max 300 x 200. Either horizontal or vertical.
Colours - Max 16.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

Adventures of Pip is a new game is published on the website of crownfunding: Kickstarter.

Create a scene using the palette shown below - a mash-up of both the Virtual Boy and Game Boy palettes:

The theme for this challenge is desolate.

Canvas size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Exactly 4. Use all of the colours from this palette:

Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

PJer TheKasparrr a Game Designer, Pixel Artist and Producer for an indie game dev company called Ratalaika Games recently released a long-term project - Defend Your Crypt.

neofotistou made a game for Ludum Dare...again.

Star Wars Day was just upon us (May the 4th) - so this week, create a portrait of yourself as one of the following fictional Star Wars species:

Twi'lek
Wookiee
Yoda's species (which, for some reason, has no actual name).

If you're the kind of person that's comfortable sharing pictures of yourself on a pixel art website, then link to a photo of yourself so we can see what your human form looks like. This is optional though.

Canvas size - Max 80 x 80.
Colours - Max 16.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.

The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.