Making pixel art for an ACTUAL Game Boy Cartridge! | GB Art Jam 2023

[@JayFolipurba]

Your image turned out incredibly detailed. I like that you used a sprite-approach although you were limited to tiles rather than sprites. I also like that we can see the influences of your previous studies in tile-based artworks, like the teletext stuff, and the practice you have with limited color palettes. It all came together really nicely!

[@BJGpixel]

Thanks for noticing! That was exactly the line of thought; to have everything organized as if they were in fact sprite assets - all that's left to do would be to isolate those things and add some animation 🤔✨

[@_EnricosUt_]

I recently released a short narrative game with GB Studio, "The Ocean, Like Time", and I found the Gameboy style to be so charming! It was so fun to work within its limits and make hardware-accurate pixel art! I found the limits usually pushed me to make better art. The only limitation I didn't like was how hard it was to make background images animated!

[@Sinistar1983]

Had a fun time doing some pixel art for this jam. Glad you could join in on it too

[@Bad_Dad]

Many thanks for participating, and thanks for a great video of the process.

[@BJGpixel]

Thanks again for letting me know about it, really fun idea and looking forward to seeing the final gallery! :D

[@inky2412]

This is amazing, I love how there's so much detail you can get out of the gameboy palette if you know how to use it properly!

[@nowonmetube]

Well sure, you have 4 shades of green (or on the greyscale). More than enough to generate pixel art.

[@laroldsjubilantjunkyard]

That's really cool! You're art is great, even when 8-bit. You should definitely think about collab'ing with some Game Boy Homebrew devs. It'll be good content for your channel, exposure for the game boy homebrew community, a lot of fun, and feel good to have a actual game.

[@WarWulf778]

Love this idea!

[@Sinistar1983]

I'd definitely be happy to collaborate. It would be nice to have a second artist on board

[@haffey2]

Grammar moment

[@TheCozyGameress]

@@haffey2You understood everything.

[@brandonmack111]

4 colors is in fact 2-bit ;) And yeah, this is some really great art, especially considering the restricted palette and tile count.

[@danielegurizzan]

Thank you for suggesting this jam, I had a great time sharing my art with other creators!

[@uneducatedswamplet]

its always fun to see how you work around limitations to end up with a unique (and always cute) piece of art

[@evanchilson9829]

I'm always in awe of your process, and for this one, I particularly love the HUD and the recolors! Such a fun jam with a great result!

[@jacobstover150]

Thx for making me aware of this jam, it was fun to make art for it!

[@toochmcgooch4678]

Really interesting set of limitations! Well done!

[@BJGpixel]

Thanks! Yeah it was fun to actually have a reason to adhere tightly to these restrictions; previously I've only ever made things that looked like the style without needing to really be that strict otherwise

[@GoochiFPV]

This really makes me want to get back on to my gameboy game creation! Lost in the preplanning! Lol! Making the artwork always gets me hyped!

[@CKTDanny]

The pirate cat is such a fun character design! This video makes me feel inspired to try some of these jams, especially seeing how quickly this one came together. I suppose that's the nature of these things but seeing the process is a nice reminder! I've always appreciated the idea of being part of something bigger in these events 😁 I liked seeing the technical challenge presented by the tile count in this jam, even though it seems that wasn't an issue in your case! 👾

[@BJGpixel]

Thanks! 😸 And yeah it was quite refreshing to work within the scenario of a Jam; the upside of the time constraint is that it forces you to make stylistic decisions pretty fast - also pretty motivating to know that there's a bunch of other people working toward a similar thing at that same moment ✨

[@mugitchi]

wah this is such a fun project! yours turn out really good!

[@BJGpixel]

Thank you! Yeah really fun to put together, somehow feels even more 'pixel arty' to have to also be restricted with tiles etc, kind of a neat challenge! :D

[@gilgante]

It was my first jam. I participated inspired by your job. Thank you so much. I had so much fun!

[@srb2er]

I'm seeing this vid like a couple days after participating in GBJAM 11 finished, so thats a bit funny. Also, the final art looks soooooo good!! Well done!!

[@Propergame]

Glad you joined us in the jam. 🤘

[@mkatapodis2]

Awesome, love the color palette and the art.

[@snailcheeserulez]

Cannot believe I just opened youtube like "I fancy a video from that pixel art guy" and checked my notifications and :¬|

[@Mike-or2cv]

WOW! So cool!

[@hyperfreezegames]

That's so awesome! I'll definitely will load these onto my flash cartridge and look at them through the actual hardware :D I love the gameboy aesthetic, as you can see in my current devlog series. A lot of great inspiration here!

[@BJGpixel]

Ooh awesome! I gotta learn how to do the cartridge thing :D

[@cybersquib5669]

This is too cool! I have been doing game jams for years, and I never knew about this.

[@_ayshasht]

love it

[@ModelZGolden]

Beautiful

[@TwinOpinion]

This is such a cool jam. I love this community!

[@rpvarela]

I love game boy art, especially game boy color Nicely done!

[@RandomBSOD]

No disrespect to the other entries but yours REALLY stands out ... 👍

[@lol_boi_le_BG_intergalactique]

I need to play this game, NOW

[@elone3997]

Getting some good WindWaker vibes with the end music ☺️ Turned out great and love "Catlantis" 😁

[@howdyriceball1992]

Nice work! I really enjoyed your submission! I had a lot of fun participating in the Jam as well! I made one called “Tangerine Dream” and had to keep erasing unique tiles to get it to fit to the 192 limit! Hope you join more of these jams! 🤠

[@CushionSapp]

That's a really cool sounding competition/jam.

[@MichaelsHistory-MES]

I love this art style!

[@dicnar]

This is great! This is still my favorite console. I still have my grey brick and I play it once a while.

[@masterdisaster6929]

I was sadly to late for this had like to try it myself. Really nice work as always :)

[@AckzaTV]

thanks i was just buying homebrew supplies carteidges ganeboys etc and i just wrote a hive blog about your art being better than ai pixelart cuz its gameboy! and your photoshop template and the need for this 8 x 8 grid size and how you design stuff using a template thats implying an actual game map in background very handy. thanks

[@StefanConstantinDumitrache]

What a cool outro!

[@brandonballman4915]

Ah thanks so much, I’ve been an artist on the game “Walter” on itch. It’s been so challenging for me as well!

[@littlebughunter]

Fun fact: Flipping (sadly not rotating) tiles was introduced with the GameBoy Color. I guess Nintendo figured it would be a useful feature after all.

[@DazzlingAction]

I wouldn't mind seeing more of these kinds of videos for only just the gameboy.

[@ClintGreene]

every time i watch one of your videos, it fires me up to go make original gameboy art

[@Arachnid-Man]

yooo, cool!!

[@EmmaPersil]

Brandon again with the coolest mockups of games I'll never play 😢

[@ethanpschwartz]

Took a look at the submissions and if these were actual screenshots from real games, yours is the one I'd want to play! "Captain Cat's Sky Adventure"? I remember playing it constantly on road trips! Never understood why a cat was trusted around carrier pigeons, but.

[@BJGpixel]

Thanks! Haha "Captain Cat's Sky Adventure" is now canon 😺✨

[@MrKIRAMAX]

que hermoso trabajo, realmente me inspiras a seguir, saludos 😍😍

[@unzippz]

best of luck!!

[@gaogamesh]

I need this game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@SethKotta]

I'd play this game

[@scientificallyaccuratespino]

Nice

[@boticland4342]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa omg!!!!!!!!!!!

[@AllanOhr]

Great video as always. What's that music at the end?

[@fallout187]

You should use your pixel art and make a GB Studio game. I’d follow your tutorials. I see previous videos on it but I’d be interested in seeing you make a fully working game.

[@Dudldom]

You're always making me want to play games that never existed.

[@DadVader]

🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@BJGpixel]

✌️😎

[@DadVader]

Forgive me such a "poor" comment but you already know what I think about your art ❤️😊😉

[@BJGpixel]

@@DadVader Hahaha oh of course, trust me "I know" (like Han Solo) - thanks for all the support! ☺

[@DadVader]

@@BJGpixel My pleasure 😁

[@four-play]

Next challenge - make another piece of artwork only using tiles from that sprite sheet.

[@igorthunderstorm475]

what do you set the PPI to?

[@ShadowDrakken]

I'm surprised you used two random recolors instead of the GBC palettes :)

[@Luchsens]

Please animate this! 💜

[@XxXOyun_KatiliXxX]

Please do a video about nintendo❤

[@bad-people6510]

Nobody ever wants to deal with color limits.

[@muhammadmuffarijhammad2911]

That looks beautiful! (first btw)

[@HorribleHomeVideo]

art? no games?