Chip musician Zalza is back with an album called "Back To The Chipland". Be sure to check it out if you like groovy blips and funky blops!

Free download and previews can be found here.

The year is 2210, you are on a committee headed by Manjaman to decide on the 8 wonders of the future world*. The first 7 have already been decided upon, it's up to you to decide on the 8th.

Keep in mind that it has to be an architectural object** or landform*** that has only existed in the previous 100 years (2110 - 2210).

*world means Earth only, but Earth's orbit is allowed. i.e., a space ring, station, floating island, etc...
**architectural objects include; buildings, statues, bridges and any other man-made structures.
***landforms include geographical structures, such as; cliffs, lakes, canyons, etc...

Canvas Size - Max 200 x 200.
Colors - Max 12.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

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

Tired of smooth scaling in today's browsers? Well you can help with the push for browser wide support for custom interpolation here.

Tilt your iPhone to explore eBoy’s mind-boggling art and find the right angle to solve the puzzle. Over 100 levels in this game. Lots of them have a 3D effect, others are layered compositions or sliced madness. The challenge is to find the hints that lead to the solution.

The game sells for under US$2 and is not the most amazing game or a good one it seems but it is Pixelart :)

See it here and play the online demo.

Big Brother wants you to support your team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup by entering this challenge!

Pixel a fantasy character or creature based on the uniform design and/or colors of your favorite country's team. For example, Spain could be a minotaur wearing red armor.

Use the template shown below and draw your character on the stand. Replace the "X" at the base of the stand with the team flag. Feel free to change the colors or edit the stand itself, just make sure the flag symbol is visible.

Canvas Size - Use this template:

Colors - Max 32. This includes the 14 already in the template.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

Robot Gunner by Vertigo-Zero will be released and available for download July 13th for free. Fight against a horde of zombies made by evil scientists using 4 original characters and 4 secret characters which are tributes to the finest indie games out there.

Watch the trailer on YouTube.

PJ Gallery LINK1 - LINK2

The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for May 2010. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
 

Minish Cap Style Buildings by llshadow

Buddy-Suit by Indigo

gps error: invalid waypoint by tomic

Summoned Animals by llshadow

Reinvented Pixel Garbage by junkboy

Character designs 1,2 by Syosa

ive come for your soul by st0ven

Challenge - "Terminator Underpants" by robnoyce

The Highlanders by 7even

New Orion by Xion Night

Shawn Smith is a sculptor whose incredible work mainly focuses on wooden voxel-esque sculptures - with a strong wildlife theme. You can find out more about the artist here.

Show us what you can make using one of the tetrominoic canvases shown below; you can flip/rotate however you want (just as long as you just stick to 90° angles, of course). Full list of canvases in the forum.

Canvas Size - Use one of these canvases (remember, you can flip/rotate):



Colours - Max 20.
Transparency - Required. However, the transparency must only be used outside of your chosen shape.
Animation - Optional.

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

If you're looking for a tool to help with creating desktop icons, sprites, favicons or avatars at the pixel level then PixelFu is for you. PixelFu is a pixelart and icon editor for the iPhone with a max pixelart canvas up to 256x256 pixels. It was released today and is under $4.

Click here for details.

Click here for the Apple review.

Be sure to check out the latest version of Boondog, by Mambazo!

A fun and challenging puzzle game where you progress from level to level by jumping, grabbing ledges, pushing blocks, activating switches and avoiding level hazards!

The game (PC only) also features a built-in levelpack editor, and all the graphics are totally customizable!

Challenge winner The Monongahela Monster wants you to show us a real or imaginary (non-human) creature doing whatever it does to relax or get comfortable. So for example, Godzilla putting his feet up on a smashed skyscraper.

Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colors - Max 32.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.

Here is the first incremental update pushing towards v3. Please make sure to flush your browser cache since just there are several JS/CSS file changes for this update.