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1. Tools
2. Restrictions on submit
3. XHB Host Halp
4. How to view
5. See also

Pixel is for pixel art, either animated or not. Typically each pixel is placed one at a time using a pencil tool. Large pixel art can take days, weeks, even months depending on how many time-outs an artist takes from a project.

Tools

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Huge list of pixel art tools

by BotB's own ui

Restrictions on submit

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Color count may not exceed 256 unique colors.
File format must have indexed colors and be browser friendly (BMP / GIF / PNG8).

XHB Host Halp

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The rules for a pixel XHB may or may not include a palette and/or size restriction. Even if a size restriction is not included in a battle's rules, it's a good thing to consider. The 8-bit era saw resolutions from around 256x240 to 320x200, but these did not always have square pixels. The PC's VGA had a hacky thing called x-mode that demo scene programmers found by manipulating the refresh rate, achieving 320x240 which has a 4:3 ratio and a square pixel.

Note that pixel entries must only include original art (and possibly art included in the bitpack)--that means no pasting images into your entry.

How to view

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You can either download a pixel entry or look at it from its dedicated page (which is created only AFTER the voting period during an XHB).

Zooming on an entry from your web browser will probably make it look blurry because of interpolation. You can resolve this issue by using a bookmarklet:

• Create a new bookmark on your web browser (you can probably do this from the bookmark menu).
• You will be asked to enter a URL, but instead of using a URL you can paste the following script.

javascript:(function p(){const s=document.createElement('style');s.innerHTML='img{image-rendering:-moz-crisp-edges;}img{image-rendering:pixelated;}';document.head.appendChild(s);})()

Now, clicking on this bookmark will let you zoom nicely on a pixel art image for the current page!


A downloaded pixel entry can be viewed from a regular image viewer, however it may look blurry, also because of interpolation. If this happens, you can for instance:

• download a dedicated pixel art tool (see the "Tools" section)
• open it in your web browser and use the bookmarklet from above

See also

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I Am New To Pixeling
Wikipedia's explanation

Pixel Joint

is an online competitive pixel art community
Wikipedia's guide to classic computer palettes

Wikipedia's guide to classic vg console palettes