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Fresher pics for the GrandMasterPixel leaderboard

The GrandMasterPixel rankings are supposed to give a view of the greatest pics that players have sent into battle. This also includes subcategories such as “three colour” pics and “black and white” pics, so you can see how people have made the best use of a limited palette. Unfortunately, it’s been hard for new pics to [...]

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GrandMasterPixel downtime: moving away from GoDaddy

Update: Annnnnnnnd we’re back. Feels good. Apologies: GrandMasterPixel iswas temporarily offline while the domain name (along with four others) iswas transferred off GoDaddy to another registrar. All going to plan, it should be back up in a few hours. The transition was mostly painless (once I figured out how to deal with the new registrars zone files). I’ve been [...]

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Link: Pushing pixels – a beginners guide to pixel animation

Nice article in the latest (Fall 2011) issue of Game Career Guide: http://gamedeveloper.texterity.com/gamedeveloper/fall2011cg#pg39

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Braindump of my proposed changes to GrandMasterPixel

Many of you have probably noticed (and quite a few players have commented) that the judging rate in GrandMasterPixel has become very slow in the last few months. This is frustrating since I know everyone likes to see how their pics do in the Arena quickly .. it’s pretty disheartening to submit you masterpiece, only [...]

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Wow, you guys really like drawing pixelart !

10,000th pic FTW ! ‘Candle Light’ by NextTarget Sometime in the last ~24 hours the 10,000th pic was submitted to GrandMasterPixel … nice looking candle, NextTarget. Thanks to everyone who has stuck with GrandMasterPixel during this (extended) beta period, it’s been a fun and exciting time, watching all these cool little pics appear magically from [...]

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