Pixel Day 2017 Winners!

[TomFulp]

Thank you everyone who participated in Pixel Day last weekend!

This marked our second annual Pixel Day, an event suggested by @RealFaction. Judging this year has once again been by @RealFaction and myself.

The top three in each category will receive $100, $50 and $30 respectively.

Top Five Games

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  ADARAN

  by Miroko

  A devil-like creature running and gunning helpless foes. Who's the real villain?

  Game

  78,635 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  S.M.O.L.

  by BoMToons

  Blast illuminated pixels for Pixel Day 2017!

  Game

  51,985 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Minute of Rage

  by Wolod

  Try to survive one minute on the deadly arena.

  Game

  77,820 Views

  (Ages 17+)

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  Split Space 2017

  by JauqGames

  Shoot your way through waves of baddies.

  Game

  14,965 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  Bad Boys

  by FsebastiamL

  animals-robots from the space in a bar fight!!!

  Game

  13,220 Views

  (Ages 13+)

Top Five Music

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  Adaran's level loop

  by Fretzone

  Chiptune loop for the game Adaran

  Loop

  Video Game

  11,693 Views

  PLAY
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  The Tyrant King

  by tripledigit

  Pixel Day 2017

  Song

  Video Game

  3,151 Views

  PLAY
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  Stem & Strat - Sprite Strife

  by Stemodity

  Collab for PixelDay2017

  Song

  Chipstep

  2,977 Views

  PLAY
• 

  Creo - Epilogue

  by CreoMusic

  submission for pixelday2017

  Song

  Chipstep

  141,634 Views

  PLAY
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  Broken Memories

  by TheJanitor9k

  Melodic chiptunes song that is recovered from a old hard drive

  Song

  Video Game

  3,154 Views

  PLAY

Top Five Art

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  i like drawing because it makes me forget about myself

  by codrea

  Pixel Art

  19,734 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Dinos vs UFOs

  by moawling

  Pixel Art

  5,747 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Newgrounds in Metroidvania 2

  by ScepterDPinoy

  Pixel Art

  10,318 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  intruder

  by radshoe

  Pixel Art

  6,152 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Ancient Aliens

  by Raeldor

  Illustration

  1,592 Views

  (Everyone)

Special thanks for @Luis for being our art tie-breaker.

Top Five Movies

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  Making a Legendary Sword - PixelPalas

  by FelipePalacio

  Pixel art animation

  Movie

  31,834 Views

  (Everyone)

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  BEST CARTOON EVER? (ISAAC AND QUINCY) (pixelday2017)

  by teaandcheese

  The infamous award winning action adventure comedy is finally online!

  Movie

  8,293 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  Dwarf's Rage

  by NickUrs

  Do not joke with dwarf... NEVER!

  Movie

  3,551 Views

  (Ages 17+)

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  Platformer Pests 2

  by <deleted>

  Mac's on the run

  Movie

  6,995 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  Pixel Day at the Park

  by SlippyPunk

  I just LOVE Pixel day, don't you?

  Movie

  9,280 Views

  (Ages 13+)

Thank you again to everyone who helped create another successful Pixel Day! I'll admit I was expecting a larger turnout in the Art Portal and I have plans to address that next year. There is definitely WAAAAAY more room for awareness of this event.

Global Game Jam

This past weekend was also the 2017 Global Game Jam, where developers met up around the world to make games in 48 hours. If you made a web game, be sure to share and tag it with "ggj17" here on NG!

@01010111 invited me to Richmond, VA to give a talk at the RVA Game Jams site for the Global Game Jam. It was great meeting everyone and showing my kids a game jam in action. I also got to meet @moawling, who was super delightful and not at all creepy like in her profile picture.

Other Stuff

If you suffer from seasonal depression or just straight up depression, remember there will be better days ahead. If you feel like you're getting caught up in all the negative stuff happening in the world or in your life, try to do something this week to make other people smile. You could write a positive review for something you like here on NG!

Our refactoring of the favorites system is making great progress and will be opening up a lot of new possibilities. For example, won't it be nice to finally see who has favorited your work? Or even find out the moment it happens in your feed? We can all use a little more positive reinforcement.

General reminder: If you are making an animation or game to share on NG, we have created a list of royalty-free music resources you can use. NG can't host unlicensed commercial audio, so please resist sticking your favorite song from the radio in there. Also, it is a big help when you properly credit the music in your submission, so no one has to ask and I won't have to unpublish your work while I check.

Finally, we're close to hitting our new monthly support target. Please consider becoming a supporter so we can go all the way and keep moving towards more ambitious goals! If we go $720 over our January goal it would completely cover the Pixel Day prizes. That's a long-shot but I'm just putting it out there.

[Intrapath]

Congrats to the winners, there was some really great stuff this year! I'm pretty excited to see the favorites system overhaul too, it'll be nice to see who favorites your stuff.

[Raeldor]

Congratulations to the winners!

I had a blast participating on it, trying the games viewing the animations, and admiring the art!

A shame that I'm still not scouted on the audio portal because I submitted audio there too for the Pixel Day. Well, next year will be another oportunity!

[Miroko]

Holy shit we won! Thank you so much Tom and RealFaction!
When I first started uploading my shitty pixel art here on Newgrounds I never thought I would get this far. I know it's not much for some people but for me this means the world.
Also many thanks to @Fretzone who did more than the required and made an amazing soundtrack.
Oh and @MadNukin who learn Haxe while making this game.

Overall thank you Newgrounds!

[ScepterDPinoy]

Congrats to the winners! I hope Pixel Day 2018 will be bigger.

[iscrulz]

At 1/26/17 12:38 PM, TomFulp wrote: Thank you everyone who participated in Pixel Day last weekend!

If you suffer from seasonal depression or just straight up depression, remember there will be better days ahead. If you feel like you're getting caught up in all the negative stuff happening in the world or in your life, try to do something this week to make other people smile. You could write a positive review for something you like here on NG!

But crippling depression is funny. If your not wanting to kill yourself constantly isn't something you can make fun of and laugh.

Edit Sorry for your loss to depression.

[Evilgrapez]

Congratulations to the winners! They're pretty awesome. Still have yet to try out the games though, but now I know which ones to try out!

[codrea]

love you guys, i really do

loving especially the music this year, chiptune makes me rock hard.

congratulations to everyone, newgrounds's such a cool place for art of all kinds (even hentai)

[TomFulp]

At 1/26/17 02:46 PM, Exzyle wrote: love you guys, i really do

loving especially the music this year, chiptune makes me rock hard.

congratulations to everyone, newgrounds's such a cool place for art of all kinds (even hentai)

That could be our new slogan, "Newgrounds: Even Hentai"

[Neoslayre]

At 1/26/17 02:54 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 1/26/17 02:46 PM, Exzyle wrote: love you guys, i really do

loving especially the music this year, chiptune makes me rock hard.

congratulations to everyone, newgrounds's such a cool place for art of all kinds (even hentai)

That could be our new slogan, "Newgrounds: Even Hentai"

I second this decision.

[Malachy]

At 1/26/17 02:54 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 1/26/17 02:46 PM, Exzyle wrote: love you guys, i really do

loving especially the music this year, chiptune makes me rock hard.

congratulations to everyone, newgrounds's such a cool place for art of all kinds (even hentai)

That could be our new slogan, "Newgrounds: Even Hentai"

The hentai of the future, today!

[artistunknown]

Man, that bit about seasonal depression hit me. I've been in a rut since like, late November, and I hadn't even thought it could be that, but it makes sense. I think I'm slowly getting out of it though. Just gotta force myself to make stuff ;3

I really wish I had finished the cartoon I was working on for Pixel Day. I wrote it for Pixel Day last year :/

Ah well, there's always next year.

[codrea]

" The hentai of the future, today!"

i like where this is going, lol

[TomFulp]

At 1/26/17 01:16 PM, Raeldor wrote: I had a blast participating on it, trying the games viewing the animations, and admiring the art!

The games category was super strong this year, so many great contenders. I really liked The Shyning and it was great to see medals working in a Game Maker game, too!

A shame that I'm still not scouted on the audio portal because I submitted audio there too for the Pixel Day. Well, next year will be another oportunity!

Scouted!

[FelipePalacio]

Congratulations to all the winners! Really nice works o/
I am very thankful for all the comments and critics about my animation, and I hope that we keep making great work like these in 2017!

Pixel art and the 8bit culture is very important to me :)

[squidly]

Wooooooah boy this Pixel Day was CRAZY. I've never seen such a concentrated amount of good pixel art. I hope this day keeps growing, Pixel Day 2018 is gonna be incredible!

[TomFulp]

At 1/26/17 04:18 PM, squidly wrote: Wooooooah boy this Pixel Day was CRAZY. I've never seen such a concentrated amount of good pixel art. I hope this day keeps growing, Pixel Day 2018 is gonna be incredible!

If I wasn't a total loser we'd have a Pixel Day event at the office with live chiptunes and pixel art gallery and game stations and animation projected on the wall and all that cool stuff that I fail to do.

[StaticSkull]

Congrats to everyone
Pixel Platformers was my fave

[Raeldor]

At 1/26/17 03:36 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 1/26/17 01:16 PM, Raeldor wrote: A shame that I'm still not scouted on the audio portal because I submitted audio there too for the Pixel Day. Well, next year will be another oportunity!

Scouted!

Whoa, Thanks for scouting me Tom!

[AtomicAstro]

I've always had a soft spot for good pixel art, congrats to the winners.

[Wolod]

Yay! I won! My congratulations to other winners. Thanks @TomFulp and @RealFaction for this amazing event. I'll definitely participate next year.

[DrSevenSeizeMD]

I just want to say @realfaction is awesome. That is all.

[ninjamuffin99]

Good stuff all around! Congrats to the winners

I was gonna make a short little game for Pixel Day but my SSD with my OS died and I couldn't get it fixed with all the stuff set up until the day before Pixel Day :( Hopefully that doesn't happen next year lol

At 1/26/17 02:54 PM, TomFulp wrote:
That could be our new slogan, "Newgrounds: Even Hentai"

https://youtu.be/_kl_uvstANY

[Evilgrapez]

At 1/26/17 04:26 PM, TomFulp wrote: If I wasn't a total loser we'd have a Pixel Day event at the office with live chiptunes and pixel art gallery and game stations and animation projected on the wall and all that cool stuff that I fail to do.

do it. now.

[PhantomArcade]

Another very cool pixel day, warmed my heart to see the vets and new comers alike enjoying the day. Was fun to explore the submissions and take in the feel of the theme.

Also sweet to see that sexy Carrion background on the site again, dig it.

[Daydream-Anatomy]

@stemodity and I placed third in music.

This is the first time I've ever placed in a contest on NG.:D

[moawling]

This was my first Pixel Day, and I'm so glad that I got to be a part of it! There were so many great submissions! Everyone has their own unique approach to pixel art, can't wait to see what else there is to come. <3 Thanks to everyone for making Newgrounds such a great place to be an artist.

I'm a lil creepy tho, Tom. don't lie.

[Funkmachine]

Congrads to the winners in all categories. Making content is not easy, and putting it out there for other people judge is even harder. Much respect++. I definitely agree with all of the game winners, those were my top 5 as well.

[Keypat]

Congratulations for the winners! Good luck for everyone :)

[SergiEfeve]

Congratulations to the winners!!! \o/

Very very nice "Dinos vs UFOs", because I like dinosaurs and aliens xD