30 stories tagged pixel-art, newest first.
270 points by westsmith | 88 comments
A personal guide to AI image generation covering history, how diffusion and multimodal models work, costs, prompting, and integrating image APIs into code and agents.
142 points by birdculture | 24 comments
A tutorial on creating an animated 88x31 web button depicting a book using ImageMagick on a POSIX system.
76 points by kitao | 8 comments
GitHub repository for Pyxel, an MIT-licensed retro game engine for Python implemented in Rust, with built-in pixel art, tilemap, sound, and music editors.
136 points by HugoDz | 32 comments
A browser game that lets you control a stickman with weapons to destroy elements of any website; the page notes it is not available on mobile.
298 points by safaelmali | 118 comments
Lofi Cities is a web app showing pixel-art city night scenes, such as rainy Paris, with lofi music generated live in the browser.
319 points by surprisetalk | 82 comments
2D Will Never Die is a retro-styled website celebrating 2D video game pixel art, featuring a sprite gallery with downloadable character sprites.
319 points by nuwandavek | 71 comments
Isopolis is an interactive isometric pixel-art map of San Francisco generated by fine-tuned Qwen Image Edit on 3D Google Map renders, with guided tours and radio.
744 points by apunen | 145 comments
A browser-based pixel-art airport simulator game showing runways, landings, departures, pace and duration counters, made by @lapunen.
322 points by thepasch | 79 comments
Super Dario: One More Week, a retro pixel-art browser platformer game with keyboard controls, shown at its start screen.
953 points by tinywind | 169 comments
TinyWind is a browser-based pixel-art pirate sailing game where players steer a ship, trim sails to the wind, and fire cannons.
894 points by sklopec | 150 comments
Personal blog post by Marko Stanic about Catlantean 3D, a side-project game with early-1990s style graphics he plans to release on Steam.
581 points by stephen-hill | 90 comments
A blog post describing recreating Hokusai's "The Great Wave" as 1-bit pixel art at 512x342 on vintage Macintosh hardware using Aldus SuperPaint.
330 points by zdw | 84 comments
Essay on the demo scene's attitude toward copying in pixel graphics, covering tracing, image conversion, and AI prompting.
1203 points by cannoneyed | 220 comments
An interactive map viewer showing a giant isometric pixel art rendering of New York City, generated with Nano Banana and built using AI coding agents.
421 points by birdculture | 75 comments
Fabien Sanglard's article on how Capcom fixed the "World Warrier" typo in Street Fighter II's title screen just before shipping, part of his CPS-1 series.
983 points by krtkush | 114 comments
Floor796 is an ever-expanding interactive animated artwork depicting a huge space station floor filled with pop-culture references; the screenshot shows tiles still loading.
373 points by ksymph | 42 comments
Blog post announcing the release of PixiEditor 2.0, a free and open-source universal 2D graphics editor.
952 points by decryption | 187 comments
Blog post showcasing mid-1980s MacPaint artwork found by browsing 18,000+ MacPaint images on Discmaster, including BMUG CD-ROM finds.
1157 points by veesahni | 456 comments
A simple browser game hand-coded in HTML, CSS and JavaScript by a 9-year-old, opening with a menu to choose an opponent such as a flying snake or spider.
460 points by blakespot | 111 comments
An article on Boris Vallejo's influence on demoscene pixel art, covering scene appropriation history and a walkthrough of making a four-color Vallejo-style graphic.
341 points by ibobev | 84 comments
A beginner-friendly Pikuma blog tutorial by Gustavo Pezzi explaining the theory and math of isometric projection and how it is used in game development.
473 points by thunderbong | 64 comments
Project page for ASCII Silhouettify, an app that converts flat graphics like logos and pixel art into ASCII silhouettes using the 95 printable ASCII characters.
468 points by gtirloni | 63 comments
Floor796 is an interactive, ever-expanding animated isometric pixel-art scene of a futuristic space station floor, shown here with tiles still loading.
617 points by celadevra_ | 179 comments
Product page for Picotron, Lexaloffle's fantasy workstation with a toy OS and built-in tools for making pixel art games, music and demos in Lua.
369 points by ingve | 108 comments
A personal blog post recounting a search for the original 60×60 pixel Netscape Navigator "meteors" throbber animation.
373 points by bpierre | 74 comments
Human Shader is a crowdsourced project where people compute shader pixels by hand with arithmetic to collectively render an image without a computer.
720 points by thunderbong | 95 comments
Orb.farm is a browser-based falling-sand ecosystem simulator where users build a sealed aquarium orb with water, algae, daphnia, fish and bacteria.
638 points by luu | 46 comments
Pixpaint, a browser-based painting toy by Max Bittker with a black canvas and a color palette for drawing pixels.
337 points by scraplab | 65 comments
Blog post about recreating Hokusai's The Great Wave as 1-bit pixel art at original Macintosh 512x342 resolution using vintage Macs and SuperPaint 3.0.
977 points by justsomehnguy | 103 comments
Floor796, an interactive, continually expanding pixel-art animation depicting life on the 796th floor of a space station, filled with pop-culture references.