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Always good to stretch one's skills.

This is very cool. What toolset did you use to code this?

This is the secret goal of the Jam, to get you inspired to move to the next step and explore the tools. Awesome work.

Just responded. Needed coffee first ;)

You're good

Check the response below.

Check the response below.

We'll give some leeway to folks who are messaging within 15 minutes of the deadline closing. Please email admin@gbstudiocentral.com and we'll try to help you out.

We'll give some leeway to folks who are messaging within 15 minutes of the deadline closing. Please email admin@gbstudiocentral.com and we'll try to help you out.

If you post the original resolution image generated for the submission (160 x 144) as a screen shot, it will look very tiny and not work well for displaying your work on your itch page. Upscale means scaling up the entire image (4X is a good factor) but making sure it's nearest neighbour or hard pixels depending on your software. Make sense?

Perusing through entries, looks like you forgot to upload the original resolution file as a downloadable file for your project. This will disqualify it if it's not completed.

We've gotten a lot of questions in the Forum about people asking how they know if their submission went through correctly. Given we have a lot of first time Jammers, that's to be expected. Make sure you follow the checklist at the bottom of the Jam page:

Submission Checklist

1. create a new project on your itch dashboard
2. upload (x1) 160px by 144px image as .png file for download
3. upload (x1) upscaled cover image. Feel free to add the Pixel Art Jam 2025 cover to your upscaled image (see above in resources)
4. add a screen shot to your project (the pixel art, upscaled, without the Pixel Art Jam 2025 cover)
5. feel free to write about your image on your project page

We recommend describing your itch project page as an asset/tool.

When you increase the size of your image, in the app you use, make sure you choose “no interpolation” or “nearest neighbour” for crisp big pixel goodness.

If you joined the Jam, the button next to the timer should be "Submit Your Project" that brings up a list of your projects and some other questions. You'll know you've submitted correctly when the your project page has a little note on the top right that looks like this (thanks Steve for the pic):

We will go through all the submissions after the Jam to make sure your submission is correct and will notify if there are issues. Submissions with errors will be given a window to resolve those issues, just make sure you click that submit button before the deadline!

The responses are correct. There is no tile flipping/rotating available to reduce the tile count. Use https://gb-studio-tile-count.netlify.app/ to confirm your tile counts before submitting.

GB studio reserves 64 tiles for the UI and rendering text to the overlay. There are modes built into GB Studio to overcome this limit (which utilize the method you describe), but for the nature of this Jam, which is about imposing limitations and getting people a "feel" for how GB Studio operates, we include this restriction.

And for the benefit of everyone here, it worked like a charm. I'll be releasing a sample project with this in place for the community to have their own color selector.

Okay, that's *WAY* cooler than what I was thinking - but no, I was actually thinking of trying to implement a color slider system so folks can pick the colors used for each shade. I know how the palettes are compiled, expecting pre-set palettes. It would be cool if there was a way to dynamically set a color via a variable. Happy to continue the conversation here, but if email is preferred, shoot us a message at admin@gbstudiocentral.com

This is fantastic! Thanks for putting this forward. I wanted to pick your brain about something related to the Jam we're hosting and some color ideas. Is there a preferred way to contact you?

Hey there, after multiple attempts to contact one of the winners of a physical cart, you have been selected for as next in line to win a cart from this jam! Please check your email (and your junk in case) to find one from our team to confirm.

I've DM'd you on Twitter/X.

Congrats on winning the GB Pixel Art Jam 24 Gallery Cart! An email has been sent to you from admin@gbstudiocentral.com with a link to submit your address for shipping. Please check your junk/spam in case it gets filtered by accident.

Congrats on winning the GB Pixel Art Jam 24 Gallery Cart! An email has been sent to you from admin@gbstudiocentral.com with a link to submit your address for shipping. Please check your junk/spam in case it gets filtered by accident.

Congrats on winning the GB Pixel Art Jam 24 Gallery Cart! An email has been sent to you from admin@gbstudiocentral.com with a link to submit your address for shipping. Please check your junk/spam in case it gets filtered by accident.

Congrats on winning the GB Pixel Art Jam 24 Gallery Cart! An email has been sent to you from admin@gbstudiocentral.com with a link to submit your address for shipping. Please check your junk/spam in case it gets filtered by accident.

Congrats on winning the GB Pixel Art Jam 24 Gallery Cart! An email has been sent to you from admin@gbstudiocentral.com with a link to submit your address for shipping. Please check your junk/spam in case it gets filtered by accident.

Congrats on winning the GB Pixel Art Jam 24 Gallery Cart! An email has been sent to you from admin@gbstudiocentral.com with a link to submit your address for shipping. Please check your junk/spam in case it gets filtered by accident.

Congrats on winning the GB Pixel Art Jam 24 Gallery Cart! An email has been sent to you from admin@gbstudiocentral.com with a link to submit your address for shipping. Please check your junk/spam in case it gets filtered by accident.

Congrats on winning the GB Pixel Art Jam 24 Gallery Cart! An email has been sent to you from admin@gbstudiocentral.com with a link to submit your address for shipping. Please check your junk/spam in case it gets filtered by accident.

Congrats on winning the GB Pixel Art Jam 24 Gallery Cart! An email has been sent to you from admin@gbstudiocentral.com with a link to submit your address for shipping. Please check your junk/spam in case it gets filtered by accident.

Congrats on winning the GB Pixel Art Jam 24 Gallery Cart! An email has been sent to you from admin@gbstudiocentral.com with a link to submit your address for shipping. Please check your junk/spam in case it gets filtered by accident.

Appreciated the response - we had to get some things in order first. Sending out the email to everyone today. Thanks for your patience.

Okay, a bunch of the Mangavania palettes were incorrect. This is now fixed. Cheers!

Nothing wrong with your art - there was an error in importing it on our end, will fix this and double check others with the same palette. Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

Thanks for the note - I'll take a look.

Email sent with the list of winners :)

This has been fixed!

It's out!

Still in the works, but getting very close to release!

Hey Eli, still working on it. We will send an email to all participants when it is ready along with posting on the community. Thanks for asking!

Received! Thanks!!!

Unfortunately, the file was still not submitted as a downloadable file, and the screenshot uploaded is the incorrect resolution. Thanks for participating, hope you still got something out of this, and we look forward to your submissions in future Jams!