IT'S HARD TO ENJOY A "NO FRILLS" GAME AFTER PLAYING SOME TOP-NOTCH GAMES LATELY Recently we have been offered some really cool Pixel Art games by other developers and it's hard to go back to ordinary after playing extraordinary. There are no age or skill level barriers and it's a nice change from the HOGs and puzzles. If you've not tried Pixel Art give the demo a whirl. I do have another paint by numbers favorite, so with the two I'm a happy fishy, the artist within gets to come out and play. The 80 pictures provide lots of relaxing enjoyment when I'm ready for some quiet time with my cats and some delicious coffee. I own all but a couple of the games and have enough unfinished painting to last til the cows come home. It takes a good amount of time to complete them and I feel it is worth the $$.
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Larger, more complex images have been added as the series grows and that's a big plus for me because challenge becomes involved. There have been no tech issues in any of the games. And the Zoom feature is an absolute must for everyone, no matter how good your vision may be. I especially like the double click to fill in large areas of same color, also being able to sweep over the picture to color your selected number instead of clicking each individual pixel. I overlook the other couple of nagging issues because I do love Pixel Art. It just isn't being done here for whatever reason. The images CAN be enlarged without blurriness or loss of color quality. I realize that we are working with pixels and they represent "small" but today's technology works magic on computerized art and I've seen the results. It would be really nice if the finished piece was larger and would stay on the screen for longer than a nano second, so we could admire our work. They create nice detail and shading that add depth and beauty to the more complex images.
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The color palette in Pixel Art is usually full of beautiful brights, muted tones and pastels. So decided to take a chance on today's release with an expiring coupon. I managed to finish only a few simple ones and painted some areas in the remaining pics to check out the colors. Surprising, the first group of images are quite an improvement this time. Evidently the devs are blind in one eye and can't see out of the other when it comes to our reviews! Enough of us have complained about this first level thing featured in every single Pixel Art game. So we just hope the next levels will not be disappointing. Pixel Painting Pleasure Let's face it ! It's impossible to finish the first set of images in the 60 minute demo. I don't know what is in store for the images I can't access until level one is completed, but I have not been disappointed in any of the versions purchased and am sure I will not be with #15. I am currently working on my second round of Pixel Art 14, and will certainly purchase #15. I'm not saying that all images should be that way, but it would be a different challenge for a couple (or a few).
As of now, we know what each image is before it is done. It would be fun to see the picture come to life as it is being completed. I think it would be interesting if they could throw in a new challenge for a couple of the images and have them just be numbered pixels on a white background so we didn't know what the picture is until we completed the puzzle. When working on one of the more complex images, it is nice to know that you can exit the game and your progress will be saved. You know that one beige pixel in the middle of a section of brown pixels just to give some extra realism, and also adds a little extra challenge to find it. I also like the challenge of finding that one last pixel of a certain color, I like to refer to as a "nuance pixel". I like the fact that the newer versions have several images that have more pixels, making completing them more of a challenge.
Sure, some of the images are childish and not very clear, but after completing an image with10K or more pixels, it is kind of fun to work through one of these simpler puzzles. Yes! Love these games, and each new version does not disappoint.