Community Shared Pixel Art Canvas!
We invite everyone to add sprites from your own games or from PICO-8 games you love.
It will even be used as the r/PICO8 subreddit's banner!
It is on EveryoneDraw.com, an infinite canvas that is shared globally for free. It uses the full PICO-8 palette, and has minimal UI which is nice to just get started without needing to learn how to use it. However there are no drawing tools, so everyone is forced to place one pixel at a time, making the drawings that much more impressive.
Draw in a Browser: 🔗link
When drawing in a browser, it sometimes forces you to pause because of the timeout feature to cut down on bot attacks most likely. Understandable but it can get frustrating.
It also has a limited color palette, just the 16 default PICO-8 colors.
Draw in the App: 🔗link
I highly recommend downloading the app if you plan on contributing to the mural. You will get short ad breaks, but not often. The real benefit is you'll be able to paint pixels quickly and access all 32 PICO-8 colors. It works especially well on tablets with a touch pen for maximum pixel arting comfort!
The app also has a bookmarking feature, where if you find a location you want to return to often, it will remember those links and you can jump directly there.
Bookmark these coordinates:
( 655330, 655330 )
Caution:
Griefing: It is a shared online space, and we do not have moderation tools, so bad actors are known to deface projects. There are moderators though that I can reach out to if that happens.
De-syncing: I have found that the website seems to perform better at staying synced to live updates, whereas the app could show a space as empty and two people could be unknowingly drawing in that same space. So I like to have the website open to see a more accurate live state, while drawing in the app on my mobile device. When I see the app getting out of sync, I fully close and restart the app.
Rules:
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No words or symbols of hate, profanity, or NSFW content.
- Only add, don't remove or cover up what is already there. You can add in the spaces between art already there, just check first that your sprite fits within before you start. To be safe, pick a space outside and the mural will keep expanding outward.
(When creating the subreddit banner, I may edit the mural to condense everything closer together to fit more art, so keeping a little padding space between art will help me do that. Don't feel the need to squeeze it in yourself.)
Share
If you want, take a screenshot of what you added, and share it in a comment below. Add as many sprites as you'd like!
Have fun!
Any rules? I don't want to deface it with poor art, so I'll just draw off to the side.
Any open area is fine to add something, even if it fits in between others.
No real rules, but I think we'd all like it to be PICO-8 related.
Once you get started its tempting to draw characters from outside games we know. But even then, we have many demakes so say I love Donkey Kong, then instead of drawing an SNES sprite, I can draw the sprites from Dinky Kong.
Wait there are the obvious rules though:
No hate, no profanity.
(Updated the post with rules)
I was so surprised to see Train Journey already there when I gave it a look, I can't explain how happy it makes me that someone cared about my dinky little game enough to draw it here <3
ik its not that special that someone else drew it already but it's special to me lol
@Maeve It's definitely special, I love Train Journey! I am not the one who drew it there (trying to keep my terrible pixel art skills to myself and out of the way of the good artists, LOL), but I'm not surprised that someone did!
I made a computer monitor w/ non PICO-8 characters. (Sorry @NerdyTeachers.)
I'd been getting into drawing lil' bobs on PICO-8 in my free time. I love the amount of character you can pack into 8x8 sprites.
No worries, looks great!
The non-PICO-8 characters I was thinking of would be like a giant modern sprite that couldn't even fit on the PICO-8 screen. Those would be out of place. But yours fits in nicely.
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