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Learn how to draw pixel art with a video game! Start from zero and develop real art skills in a relaxing way. Complete interactive tutorials, draw pixel art sprites, and play the games you create. Everyone can do this!
Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode is a pixel graphics, relaxing and game development game
developed by Matej 'Retro' Jan
and published by Retronator.
Released on August 05th 2024 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.
It has received 322 reviews of which 316 were positive and 6 were negative resulting in a rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 12.00€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Can it run a browser?
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: At least 320×240 pixels resolution
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: Sound Blaster-compatible … If you know, you know.
MacOS
- OS: macOS Catalina 10.15
- Processor: Apple Silicon or Intel
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: It's a mac, you're fine!
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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A structured, satisfying way to finally learn pixel art This is a satisfying experience to learn pixel art. The "game" is actually a self-paced interactive course that combines both theories, illustrated examples and project works in a structured way. It helped me connect many dots after a year struggling to improve at pixel art. However, the early access version mostly just cover line art, so it won't be as great if you need to get better at coloring, projections, sub-pixeling, and other more advanced topics. Though given the experience so far, we can be hopeful that they will be good, too. Normally, I won't leave reviews, But I'm sharing my experiences so you can decide to buy/support the game, as I wholeheartedly want to the game and its developer (Matej) to succeed. Be warned, there 's a lengthy story below! For context, I have been trying to learn pixel art in my free time since early 2023, to make a game. At first, it felt easy to just pick up Aseprite and make a various pieces here and there. I was able to create various 32x32 icons of a lot of objects, and even managed to build on a Stardew Valley avatar mod as my practice project (adding seasonal clothing for characters). However, this was mostly because I used existing works as references. By late 2025, however, I start to hit a wall as I start to create my own game's art. Now, I would stare at a blank canvas, unable to know how to draw the image in my head onto the screen. Roughly, I knew that I would need to get better at the art basics. However, simple strategies to find and learn these things didn't work: [*] Searching for tutorials on Internet only yield very specific tutorials like how to draw a rock, how to draw food, etc. [*] Using LLMs to formulate a course are also terrible. At best, it only gives me terms on what to learn, like line art, object composition, perspectives, dithering, etc. Maybe I don't know what to ask, but I'm stuck nevertheless. [*] Most online courses are too basic and lack projects to work on. Courses that seems helpful don't have slots, or they would cost $$$ and require time commitment/moving, which doesn't work for me. [*] Posting to pixel art groups often don't yield meaningful feedback beyond "it's nice/not nice". [*] Most books I found are very surface-level, basically giving you a 2-3 page intro on each technical topics. Thus, I ended up struggling for almost a year. I did found some useful resources though, sharing them at the bottom of this review By chance, I found "Pixel Art Academy". And suddenly things fall into place: [*] There is a structured process to learn, starting from tools, to guided examples that you complete yourself, then more free-form work with a scoring system. Finally, there are free-from projects and extra challenges for even more practice. [*] Some of the tools are direct things you would found in pixel art software like Aseprite (e.g: pencil, shapes, bucket, etc). The even the hot key bindings are similar. These teach mechanical skills that you can use elsewhere. [*] Some higher-level tools like the reference lines and the "perceived lines" (i.e: a line that simulate what a human would see) are really good at teaching concepts like jagginess and what a "smooth" curve looks like. [*] There are some meta-level teaching, too. You learn the process of creating a pixel art image, which often start from picking a reference, drawing outline sketches, adding details and cleaning up. So even with a very limited set of tutorials, I was able to start working/improving on my line art skills. This enabled me to start getting through some huddle in creating my own game's art. There are still problems, of course, but I think they are worth forgiving because it's in Early Access. Here are some of my more critical thoughts: [*] Most of the tutorials are about producing 2-bit pixel art (transparent background + 1 color). When there are colors, the palette is pre-determined, so you won't get far with more colorful work. [*] It's easy to fall into the trap of clicking pixels that are highlighted. This won't really teach you the how/why for later. But then it's a general problem with learning anything and can be overcome using other materials. IMO, the real downside right now is that It's incomplete , with only content about line art. But because line art is such a big part in pixel art, it will take you quite far, still. Plus, you can always supplement the learning from elsewhere. At this point, it's still reasonable to hope that the Matej can add more quality topics later. P.S: If you read up to here and decide to support the game, go to [url=https://pixelart.academy]https://pixelart.academy to see more. As mentioned, here are some of the better learning resources that worked for me. I'm old school, so these are mostly books and sites, no videos: [*] [url=https://pixellogicbook.com]Book: Pixel Logic [*] [url=https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/pixel-art-for/9781482252316/]Book: Pixel Art for Game Developers [*] [url=http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tuts/tsugumo/]Blog: So You Want To Be A Pixel Artist? [*] [url=https://lospec.com/pixel-art-tutorials]Website: Lospec's tutorials - for when you actually want specific topics [*] [url=https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=6&SO=R&OB=desc]Forum: Pixel Joint - just look at the top topics.
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Got this game after seeing a video in my youtube recommended where the dev talked about the development of the game and their goals. I was a bit sceptical at first in terms of how this all would work in practice, but I tried the demo and it was real fun! Got the game soon after and even if I'm relatively early on in it, I'm having a blast. The game is both really relaxing and quite informative. Like, imagine someone turning episodes of Bob Ross's show into a game. Really looking forward towards the future of this, as it's already super polished.
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Learned with this, still learning, and quite a bit for both of those, would recommend for those starting off in pixel art. (also the controls/key binds are same as with Aseprite, so you get practice for that too)
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This game is a great starting point for learning pixel art! I had a lot of fun taking in the information, but the entire pinball machine section was really frustrating. I had to restart my games multiple times because the game froze on me and I wanted that section to end so I didn't have to interact with it anymore. Other than that, you should give this game a try if you want to start learning pixel art.
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As a game developer, who doesn't know how to make pixel art, this game is a fantastic game to teach the fundemental of pixel art. Must buy for newbie at pixel art like me
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Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode is currently priced at 12.00€ on Steam.
Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 12.00€ on Steam.
Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode received 316 positive votes out of a total of 322 achieving a rating of 8.97.
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Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode was developed by Matej 'Retro' Jan and published by Retronator.
Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode is not playable on Linux.
Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode is a single-player game.
Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode does not currently offer any DLC.
Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode does not support Steam Remote Play.
Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Matej 'Retro' Jan
Publisher
Retronator
Release
05 Aug 2024
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