It's really cool hearing how every gathered their inspiration! This is my first jam, and also kinda my first real experience with pixel art, but I've had a lot of fun! For the theme I originally considered doing a bus perched on a cliff's edge or Atlas holding a plate with a teetering stack of retro objects. Eventually I saw a tightrope walker above a city skyline and decided that was the way to go! In the end I tried making it look like a cutscene in a theoretical Lupin III GB game. I'm not used to working small and don't really have a workflow for it, which is funny cos it sounds like a lot of people were apprehensive about reaching the unique pixel limit, but I accidentally blew past it and spent hours trying to find areas that I could turn into pixel patterns to try and claw it back lol
That's a really cool interpretation! I was trying to think of unique stuff initially too and nearly locked myself into doing a piece that was exactly 50% black and 50% white pixels, before realising how horribly difficult it would be to keep track
