Going to be making some changes today so the site may be down. I'll also be adding a few tutorials and what not. Besides that I have a valid excuse to explain my absence, it involves doctors and the hospital and a couple of operations heading my way. Besides that you may notice I have added a new forums link on the site, this link goes to the forums I staff on for the MforMature.net gaming site where I can always be found.

Well seeing as retro are what inspired me to get involved in pixel art I thought it might be worthwhile to mention the retro review section over on MforMature I have started writing myself there and hopefully in a month or two there will be a decent amount up there.

Anyway if anyone reads this I must apologize for my absence as of late, I have been busy with Valentines day and in general with my lovely Allison, so I'll try to get some updates posted hopefully tonight or tomorrow on the stuff I'm working on.

One of the biggest problems with being a pixel artist is often the lack of things to do with your finished product. There are countless games out there for 3D modelers to make graphics for, Jedi Academy comes to mind, or the countless mods for Valves Source engine. Sadly the pixel artist is often left out in the cold, I often feel like this. I am however lucky enough to be spriting for two separate game developers, but what about those of you who don't get this chance?

Before I started typing up this article I had planned on having a rant about how games such as Harvest Moon should never of gone 3D, and while searching images to back up my point I came across the Game Maker site. I was briefly intrigued by this as I remember this program for years ago, and to be honest it had never really impressed me. However, looking through the games other people had made and seeing clones of popular games like GTA, Super Smash Bros, Sonic the Hedgehog and The Sims, I suddenly thought "Wow, this gives people who love pixel art but can't code and opportunity to make a game".

I'm not sure how difficult the program is to use, I just downloaded it myself so I'll post updates once I get my head around it.