Auntie Pixelante: Pixel Art 2009-2015

Devlog

• Bonus images
  May 24, 2026 by Anna Anthropy

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  Here are some bonus images that didn't make it into the final book. The first image I ever made in GalleryNES. Bomberman sitting at his office job, daydreaming of burning it all down. Segmented snake... Continue reading

  
• Cube Kingdom and 3D modeling
  May 23, 2026 by Anna Anthropy

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  There's a very small amount of 3D modeling in the book, made in a program called Cube Kingdom that I found in 2008. I included it because I think it's absolutely of a piece with the rest of the tile-b... Continue reading

  
• Typography and lettering
  May 22, 2026 by Anna Anthropy

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  I write in the introduction to this book that ZZT kicked off my interest in tile-based art. It also informed how I think about graphic design – in the unicode text world of ZZT, I learned to think a... Continue reading

  
• Porn
  May 21, 2026 by Anna Anthropy

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  There's a bunch of smut in this book, both traditional pixel art and GalleryNES tile art. Unfortunately, the demands of both taste and capitalism prevent me from posting the uncensored images as previ... Continue reading

  
• ZZT and ASCII art
  May 20, 2026 by Anna Anthropy

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  The 1991 shareware game ZZT is what got me into tile-based art in the first place. This MS-DOS game creation system uses DOS' text-mode character set, a collection of 256 characters also known as ASCI... Continue reading

  
• GalleryNES and tile art
  May 19, 2026 by Anna Anthropy

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  Much of the work in Auntie Pixelante was made in a program called galleryNES by No Carrier. Designed to produce art that could be compiled into a NES rom, playable on actual NES hardware, the program... Continue reading