Pixel art seemed to capture the attention of parts of the blogosphere earlier this week. Lots of people were asking the question: Is pixel art just about nostalgia & video game fanboyism, or is it something more ? In my opinion this ‘debate’ is about as dumb as the “Are videogames art ?” debate. Of [...]

Yup, another milestone. It has been just over two months since GrandMasterPixel went into beta testing on the Android Market. This week, the 5000th picture was entered into the Arena to battle it out.
Congratulations to “lava floe” by meant2live218 — lucky number 5000 !

No prizes, apart from the glory of being randomly featured here
This [...]

Picture this. You’ve just released the beta version of an online mobile game (OG). It is surprisingly more popular than you expected, so much so that it may even become a “massively multiplayer” online game (MMOG). So you are taking a break with your family over Easter. You haven’t written huge amounts of code to [...]

GrandMasterPixel – cool things I’ve noticed
So it’s been about a week since I released the GrandMasterPixel beta to the Android Market. It’s been an exciting time – here are a bunch of random things I’ve noticed:
A surprise – A pic that I’d never judged moving up into the top rankings. This is exciting for me, [...]

I decided I needed to avoid losing momentum on GrandMasterPixel … so I’ve pushed through to ‘beta’ and made it available on the Android Market. I hope the server backend doesn’t melt (actually it’s hosted on Google App Engine, so I think it will be just fine .. but some optimization wouldn’t hurt [...]