2025 DOSember Cup - Pixel Jam
Pixel Jam Details
Hosted by s1gnal
Description:
A creative challenge where participants are tasked to draw pixel art in 30 minutes! Offline submissions are also welcome if you cannot attend the event!
Submission Cut-Off Date:
Live Jam Event:
Starting at artists will join a Discord call to share their screen live and draw their creation during the 30 minute jam session to be praised by s1gnal and other panelists and viewers on his stream!
Rules:
Drawing Parameters
- Canvas Size: exactly 96 x 52 pixels
- Color Palette: Shmupy-16
- Any raster-based drawing app with the following tools can be used:
- Pixel pencil and eraser
- Basic selection tools
- Basic geometry shapes (lines, boxes, ellipses)
- Fill tool and color picker
- Copy and paste
- Not Allowed:
- Any colors outside of the event palette
- Blending modes or filters
- Layers (copy-pasting is ok)
- Special brushes or textures
- Vectors or 3D
- Editing or tracing images. Looking up reference images is ok.
- Drawing tablets are ok, but any tool that takes advantage of pressure sensitivity, tilt or other tablet features is not allowed.
Offline Submissions
- Theme: "Realization"
- Submit drawings before the event starts
Live Jam
- Theme: Announced at start of Jam
- Participants must start with a blank canvas using the event color palette
- Participants have 30 minutes to draw
- Basic knowledge of OBS (Virtual Camera will be used for screensharing). Microphone/Camera allowed, but not necessary.