January 22, 2007 to April 17, 2007
These were my entries for the first Pixelator tournament held over at Pixelation. I came 2nd place out of 32 contestants.

Media: Graphics Gale, mouse




Description: Create an image of a monster or creature.
Size: No bigger than 100x100
Colours: No more than 32
Restrictions/Rules/Guidelines: Dont create a monster that already exists. You are allowed the general idea, such as werewolf, dragon, etc but dont make one that already exists in a movie, game, comic, etc. (Remember, creativity counts).


Description: Create a future landscape/or an alien planet landscape in Iso tiles.
Colours and Tiles: 16 colour preset pallete. You are allowed to substitute ONLY 4 colours from the pallete for 4 of your own. You are allowed 1 transparent colour. 16colours +1 transparent. Tiles are 32x15 (2:1).
Restrictions/Rules/Guidelines: No preset canvas size. but the canvas shape must be a diamond/square. I want an equal amount of tiles on all 4 sides. No backgrounds. All I want to see is your tiled map. Make the background 1 solid colour, not transparent. No life / creatures allowed. the only living things allowed are plants. No actual creatures that can move. I do not want to see a full world, or a world map(such as continents and such). Make it an actual scene, like of some old forest, or a rundown futuristic city, alien swamp, etc.


Description: Create an idle animation of a strange cultured female.
Size: 128 x 128
Colours: 32 colour max. Pick your own palette. Use 1 of your 32 colours as a solid background colour.
Restrictions/Rules/Guidelines: There is NO frame count. Must be of a strange cultured female, ex: Dragon princess, dinosaur queen, android, mermaid (in other words, no regular cultures like japanese, french, german, etc. ...a new different culture, but has to still resemble a female human). Must be of an idle animation. No detailed backgrounds, and No transparency.


Description: Possibly the simplest concept - hardest to complete. Design a background of a sky.
Size: 240x160
Colours: No colour count.
Restrictions/Rules/Guidelines: NO animation. Must be of just the sky - can be natural like rain, fiction like apocalyptic, or even alien sky. No objects in background, such as ground, trees, rocks, etc. Only things that pertain to the sky, like clouds, or northern lights, or moons/suns, etc.


(During these two weeks I was very busy, so I didn't manage to finish it in time.)
Description: Create a platformer/sidescroller mockup using your previouse entries.
Size: 240x160 (bigger width than height)
Restrictions/Rules/Guidelines: NO animation. Each of you must use your own background of the sky you just created - as your background for the mockup - no edits or changes to that. Next, you must convert your monster you made in challenge 1 into an enemy sprite (i dont care size). Then, take your female you made in challenge 3, and make that your main character sprite. Now, for tiles - you can look at either tileset, made from each of you, and convert those into 2d sidescroller tiles. The tiles dont need to be exact replicas, but inspired from them. So say, I could inspire some tiles from both snakes and mirres iso tiles. Add any extra things you think would add to your mockup ex: life meter, score counter, etc... that kind of stuff.