Pixel-Based Websites: Resources, Tutorials, And Examples

The essentially left out the two largest/still thriving pixel art communities:<p>- <a href="http://www.pixeljoint.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pixeljoint.com/</a><p>- <a href="http://www.wayofthepixel.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wayofthepixel.net/</a><p>Relevant plug: If you use safari, I wrote a small extension that detects if you are on pixeljoint and changes the image smoothing to nearest neighbor so the pixels look 'crispy'. Any other sites you can toggle this on and off from the toolbar.<p><a href="https://github.com/dylan/Crispy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dylan/Crispy</a>

Blast from the past, with some new stuff throw in too! I'm not usually a fan of these lists but this one has some good stuff. I was wondering why K10k wasn't there, but sadly it turns out it finally took its last breath a year ago (after years of inactivity): <a href="http://kottke.org/11/10/so-long-kaliber10000" rel="nofollow">http://kottke.org/11/10/so-long-kaliber10000</a> They had one of the best tiling background collections of all.

For those who didn't bother going through the list, here is one of the listed sites that caught my attention: <a href="http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/" rel="nofollow">http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/</a><p>The art is extraordinary and the background sounds match perfectly and are very relaxing. Definitely worth taking a look at.

I was just looking for something like this. The breadth of uses for pixel art is great to see in this piece, especially when favicons came up right after the gaming tutorials. I'm no artist, but this stuff looks fun.

Man, this would've been useful a few weeks ago!<p>We posted this as a ShowHN recently, but we built <a href="http://www.awesomecontroller.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.awesomecontroller.com/</a> as a side-scrolling pixel site.<p>We used Pixen on OSX for pixel art, and it was really simple to get started. I'd highly recommend it for simple pixel work if you're not a Photoshop guru.

These are very pretty examples. I can definitely see them used in the future as videogame backgrounds and textures in HTML5 canvas games!

There are a number of pixel art tutorials on Deviant Art as well. Some seem rather awesome.<p><a href="http://kiwinuptuo.deviantart.com/gallery/27054576" rel="nofollow">http://kiwinuptuo.deviantart.com/gallery/27054576</a>