Creating pixel art made me think of my own game, to keep it more focussed. Since I don’t own a working desktop computer, a native app is out of the question. The alternative is HTML5 on a web server, which isn’t free and rather complicated.

There used to be a term for maxing out the number of characters in a Tweet, but sadly I’ve forgotten it. It probably is for the best 🤔 Since Micro.blog has a soft limit for the character count, perhaps that can be a source of creativity. I see very little experimenation, though.

Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “Gate.” Pixel 🎨 160x90px, 10 colors.

One of my favorite podcasts. Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, etc.

Spell it out in lead? Ooh!

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The Gerry Anderson Randomiser podcast, Four Feather Falls - Gunplay.

Today’s theme for Pixel Dailies was “whirlpool.” Pixel 🎨 64x64px, 5 colors.

Drafts

I’ve downloaded the free version of Drafts as an alternative to Apple Notes for my micro-blogging. It has been a while that I’ve used the app (version 3), so it was quite different from the simple app I was used to. It even has support for Taskpaper, a ToDo app on MacOS.

I use HEX Editor by aZeR DiLLs basically for two things:

• replace Window returns (hex 0D0A) by MacOS returns (hex 0A) with HEX-iT!
• change the file extension with RENAME

Both are hard to do on iOS otherwise.

For the Sketch a Day app. The concept “sharp” as pixel art, 32x32px, 7 colors.
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A man rag of reserve. Pixel art 32x32px, 11 colors. 🎨 For the Sketch a Day app.
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I love 1950’s SF movies and their low budget look. This pixel 🎨 was prompted by today’s Pixel Dailies theme “mole.” It’s 48x48px, 4 colors.

Spongebob Squarepants inspired pixel 🎨 240x160px, 14 colors.

Drawn for the Sketch a Day app. Today’s prompt was “reef.”

This pixel 🎨 WIP shows that it pays to work a little longer at a piece before taking a break. After 2 hours or so, I really needed a break, so I exported both versions and put them on top of each other, to see the difference.

It’s not done yet, though, not by a long shot.

Today’s theme for Pixel Dailies was punchcard. This is a still frame of an animated GIF, 32x32px, 4 Gameboy colors. 🎨

I’ve gone with the unconfirmed etymology of the word, mountain valley village. Drawn for the Sketch a Day app, prompt Nepal.

Pixel 🎨 240x160px, 16 colors.

It snowed last night… It will be molten in a few hours, since it’s above freezing. 🏠

When I really, really want to make something awesome, I need strip down an idea to its essentials, and then add what I need. That’s what I did in this basic design of a mountain valley village, the supposed etymology of the word Nepal. Pixel 🎨 WiP, 240x160px.

I had to look up today’s Pixel Dailies theme “Super Boss.” After going through a boring explanation on YT about Final Fantasy (boring game IME), I decided to go my own way—nothing surprising there—and fixed their obvious typo; it should be: “Supper Boss”, clearly!

If you’re not on the floor, squirming in laughter, I can totally understand. I now appreciate the existence of the laugh track for reruns of unfunny tv shows. I’m looking at you, Happy Days, after the Fonz jumped the 🦈 Aaayyy!

Nintendo Gameboy pixel 🎨 160x144px, 2 colors.

Not sure if this qualifies, but it’s a drawing.

Drawn for the Sketch a Day app. Today’s prompt was “funny.”

Pixel 🎨 Nintendo Gameboy resolution, 160x144px, 8 colors.

Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was box art. How quaint, like LP’s and land lines, so oldskool. 80x80px, 12 colors.