Hi Artists & Game Developers, Photoshop is widely known as a go-to software for digital painting, but in my experience, it works surprisingly well for pixel art thanks to its powerful color manipulation tools. As someone who works in both mediums, Photoshop is my preferred choice for switching seamlessly between the two. However, to get sharp, crisp pixel art, you have to adjust settings across several different tools. While it’s not difficult, toggling those settings manually every time you...

Hello fellow pixel artists and game developers. I love working in Pyxel Edit, but many outsource project prefer Aseprite. So I create this tool to converts pixel art project files between editors. It's a standalone tool — not a plugin, and neither Pyxel Edit nor Aseprite needs to be installed. I'm planning to add more programs in the future if this got enough attention. Here is the GitHub page in case you want the source code: https://github.com/Square-Atom/pixel-reanimate Thank you for your...

First of all, thanks Lyra from Lost Time studio for allowing us to use images from her project with us, to illustrate this article. You can visit her work here: https://twitter.com/LostTimeGames https://lychees.itch.io/ As usual, I advise my clients to avoid focusing on the art too early unless it is necessary for developing the story or world design. There are several reasons for this: During the development process, games typically undergo many changes, both minor and major. Completing art...