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Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster games top 3 million copies in two years

Game Developer

The recent pixel remasters of classic Final Fantasy games are selling well for Square Enix since their staggered release back in 2021.

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The gorgeous visuals of Bionic Bay that Juhana Myllys calls Painterly Pixel Art

PreMortem.Games

Painterly Pixel Art Myllys started his career in 2007 doing pixel art and he really wanted to go back to explore if he could bring something new to the style. He felt that the vast majority of pixel art games were stuck in the past and the 8-bit era. So, he wanted to be experimental and try something new. “I

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Pulp fiction and retro gaming in the 21st century: An exploration of the pixel pump subgenre

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Pixel Pulps are text adventure games in which we combine a type of narrative from the first half of the 20th century with home computer graphics and adventure game interface from the '80s.

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Pixel Federation goes all-in on AWS with help from Labyrinth Labs

AWS Games

Mobile game developer and publisher Pixel Federation entertains more than 140M players worldwide with popular mobile games, including ‘ Diggy’s Adventure ,’ ‘ Trainstation 2 ,’ ‘ Puzzle Adventure ,’ and ‘ Port City.’ We evaluated a few cloud providers, and ultimately AWS provided the best experience and capacity; it was an easy decision.”

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DPaint.js — Modern Deluxe Paint Inspired Pixel Art App

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com DPaint.js — Modern Deluxe Paint Inspired Pixel Art App DPaint.js is a free and open source pixel art application heavily inspired by Deluxe Paint. Deluxe Paint was the most common painting application for game art in the 80s-90s, used by studios such as iD Software, Lucas Arts, Sega and more.

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A Void Hope by Elden Pixels lacks violence and destruction “We’re proud of that”

PreMortem.Games

Now, with the new game A Void Hope coming up on almost 3 years of development, Forslind finds himself juggling his roles as both CEO and Game Designer of his company called Elden Pixels. The moniker ‘Elden Pixels’ wasn’t arbitrarily chosen. We tried again and went for Blind Pixels, which we thought was cool.

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How to get an array of pixel colors from an image?

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I’m trying to make an effect of pixels appearing with transparency and sequence (first the “darkest” then the rest of the pixels). I want to achieve the effect - “so that the pixels, like water, fill the empty mouth of the river.” But I couldn’t get the array of pixel colors. I’m here to get any help.

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