People ask how I do illustrations at very small pixelart resolutions. The trick is practice, and the exercise to practice is this: 1. draw your character 2. halve the resolution (now you can't fit all the details; pick what to keep), 3. halve again to 1/4. After that, 1/2 res feels roomy.

🖤 🐾 doodle for my mental health. don’t you have days when you just wanna go… blep? #pixelart #ドット絵 #aseprite

Check out these 4 things we did to help Mina navigate precarious platforms precisely in Tenebrous Isle. 😱 We are taking jumping mechanics to the next level making the experience fun for players and mice!🐁 🎮What are some of your favorite top down game mechanics?

TRUE FINAL RELEASE DATE!! 🐭🙌 Mina the Hollower launches May 29 for only $19.99! Prepare yourself for one of the greatest top-down adventures ever to be delivered directly to your soul for less than 20 bucks. Mark your calendars. Tell your friends. Wishlist now - links below! 🧵

Rebranding one of my schools of magic and doing some font upgrades at the same time @tjtrewin.com was kind enough to add the overdot characters to his fonts and I upgraded mine. #indiedev #irishgamedev #fonts

been thinking a bit about people doing all sorts of upscaling on old games with prerendered backgrounds and it hit me that it would be kinda fun to use the extra resolution to make them look worse in interesting ways instead, like trying to make the it look like a scanned 90s game mag screenshot

The Shadow of Night

It's my friend @ap-cartography.bsky.social's birthday! I highly recommend The Wandering Library - it's cosy, solo journaling RPG with gorgeous artwork (human-created by AP. of course) and fun, thought provoking gameplay. 🥰 grab a cup of tea & treat yourself! #SoloRPG #Journaling #Worldbuilding

If you leave nice comments on art and writing, you are a big part of why we get to continue seeing more art and writing. Thank you to everyone who takes the time to make the community continue flourishing. You, the audience, matter just as much as the creators do.

a pixel art study of Mina the Hollower for today's #PixelDailies prompt: "floorboards" :3 I can't contain my excitement for this gaaaaaaame!! so I put it into a lil animation 😆 #MinaTheHollower @yachtclubgames.bsky.social #PixelArt #Aseprite

a pixel art study of Mina the Hollower for today's #PixelDailies prompt: "floorboards" :3 I can't contain my excitement for this gaaaaaaame!! so I put it into a lil animation 😆 #MinaTheHollower @yachtclubgames.bsky.social #PixelArt #Aseprite

Falling star #gamedev #pixelart

I took part in a coastal clean up at the reserve yesterday 🥰 we filled 4 of those massive city recycling bags with trash! 3 of which can be recycled! 🙌 I'm certainly feeling the aches today after helping to haul those back through the nature reserve to the entrance 😱 #BeachClean

Why are you trans? (Wrong answers only) So I could get to eat a Yorkie bar.

32x32px Creatures #pixelart

despite everything, you must create art. just in the way you want. its the only way

This was a fun VGen request! The open book symbolises a welcoming space for authors & book nerds, with the bookmark forming the shape of a pride flag - a welcome space for LGBTQ+ folks and the queer characters represented in their stories 🥰 also the B is two books! #PixelArt #VGenComm #LogoDesign

This was a fun VGen request! The open book symbolises a welcoming space for authors & book nerds, with the bookmark forming the shape of a pride flag - a welcome space for LGBTQ+ folks and the queer characters represented in their stories 🥰 also the B is two books! #PixelArt #VGenComm #LogoDesign

I've never participated in @artfight.net before, so I'm making an OC ready for July 😁 I could do with some tips - what's something you wish you knew when you came up with your first character? #ArtFight #ArtHelp #OC

Who would win? Eh... Who knows? Who cares? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv5t...

I've never participated in @artfight.net before, so I'm making an OC ready for July 😁 I could do with some tips - what's something you wish you knew when you came up with your first character? #ArtFight #ArtHelp #OC

We hear and appreciate your feedback on the photo carousel. We're going to put it back in the oven for now. We'll consider bringing it back for posts with more than four photos (or videos) when we add support for that.

Since bisky's pic max is now 4000x4000, I'm just uploading these as a test. Am curious to see how it artifacts them. First image is 40x40, Each square is 1 pixel Second is 400x400, each square is 10 pixels Third is 4000x4000, each square is 100 pixels

Like man why not just let us choose the crop previews instead of this. The new move might genuinely be just posting one image per post in a longer thread I guess. This sucks

Testing images with different aspect ratios, please excuse the temporary feed spam 💚 Starting with four images each of the same ratio, then further in this thread I'll test mixed sizes. Four images: 1:1 ratio 1080x1080

RIP #PortfolioDay layout 😭 This changes all of your old posts with multiple images to a carousel format. Also if your image ratios are 16:9, more of it gets chopped off (the first two images in my example are 1:1). Time to explore some ideas for the new format I guess 🤔 #PixelArt

Bon Sant Jordi! 🌹📚🐲

WOMEN & NON-BINARY GAME DEVS! As part of my PhD, I will be looking to interview lots of game devs and I want to talk to YOU! If you are a woman and/or non-binary game dev, or know of anyone & would be willing to have a chat about your work and yourself, please reach out!

It took moving to Canada to fully understand why most 90s games were so punishing: Rental culture meant devs had to "rent-proof" their games so you wouldn't beat them in a weekend. (Coming from France where game rental was forbidden, this was a total revelation)

previous works #pixelart

#berry for today's dailies inspired by a purple diamond #pixelart #ドット絵 #aseprite #berry, #pixel_dailies @pixeldailies.bsky.social

I've had solid day of 1bit pixel art today 🥰 another retro throwback! this time for the Nokia Art Jam 4 this was my first phone! 👴 my friend sent me a custom ringtone of the Ground Force theme tune xD what was your first phone? #PixelArt #1BitArt #1Bit #Nokia #Nokia3410 #PraiseHelix #Pokemon

I need to do more textural / layered work Ashbox Café, 2020

my entry for the 30 Years of Tamagotchi Game Jam! I loved my Tamagotchi (even though it was the pink one). At the school gate Mum said all the parents would be looking after their kids' ones until the bell rang 😂 what colour did you have? 💩 #PixelArt #Aseprite #Tamagotchi #1BitArt #1Bit

I've had solid day of 1bit pixel art today 🥰 another retro throwback! this time for the Nokia Art Jam 4 this was my first phone! 👴 my friend sent me a custom ringtone of the Ground Force theme tune xD what was your first phone? #PixelArt #1BitArt #1Bit #Nokia #Nokia3410 #PraiseHelix #Pokemon

my entry for the 30 Years of Tamagotchi Game Jam! I loved my Tamagotchi (even though it was the pink one). At the school gate Mum said all the parents would be looking after their kids' ones until the bell rang 😂 what colour did you have? 💩 #PixelArt #Aseprite #Tamagotchi #1BitArt #1Bit

Here are 543 images (1.5GB) of items at the Philadelphia Museum of Art arms and armor exhibit You're free to use them for anything, even commercially. I tried to focus on details not usually represented in available reference material drive.google.com/file/d/1NRzg... Here's a small sampling:

This is my entry for april's #monthlypixels!! A small farming area with some free fields, a dog house, some chickens a scarecrow and fields growing carrots, peppers and pumpkins! #pixelart ・ #ドット絵 ・ #cosmicdust

A never-ending cycle 💀 🔥 #pixelart

peep it

i've been working on making Sonic 2's visuals fit for a sharp display by accounting for any techniques/lack of detail that doesn't translate Here's the ring! Only two frames and one colour added :P

I deliver a friend

Gooey ink ball. Maybe I can make it better, but I had about a 1 hour budget. Again, thanks for the quick pro tips @cyangmou.bsky.social and @rappenem.bsky.social! You guys are the best at what you do. #pixelart #animation

Just so you know what kind of dork I am: I was looking at the Artemis II mission stuff and said to @kaylahornbrook.bsky.social, “The cutaway in those letters in the bottom left corner definitely means something super specific…”

[ #oc ] a place called "home"

countryside #pixelart

Finished a wee #jelly for today's #pixel_dailies challenge! @pixeldailies.bsky.social #pixelart

more low poly stuff, this time a mockup for an imaginary game in gba resolution (240x160px) the 3D scene is made with picocad2, 2D overlay is made with aseprite #picocad2 #aseprite #lowpoly #gamedev #pixelart