If you’ve ever wanted a tool outside of a regular computer program to assist you with the recreation of retro pixel art, then Pixel Paint – brought to you by developer and publisher Two Kernel Connection – might just be the game for you.
Due out on the North American Wii U eShop on 30th October for the price of $3.99, Pixel Paint draws inspiration from the current crop of pixelated indie games, and retro classics of yesteryear.
Players will be able to base their creations on past and recent games, or create something entirely new. To assist this process, Pixel Paint includes colour palettes from some of the biggest retro systems, the ability to change brush size and shape, cut/copy/paste features, colour picker, fill colour, and replace colour options.
All of these features are supported by the intuitive GamePad control scheme, and you can also use Miiverse to show your creations to the world.
View the trailer below, and let us know if you’ll be downloading Pixel Paint from the Wii U eShop later this week. As for gamers outside of NA, we'll be on the lookout for a local release date for your region in the near future.
[source twokernelconnection.com]
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This looks like it could be really good. I'm definitely going to purchase it. If there's one thing my drawing skills lack, it's pixel art and realism (unrelated but I thought I'd mention it anyways).
Nice! I use other apps for my sprites and tilemaps and stuff but I think I might get this for the big screen and stylus use.
Their old school infomercial trailer is great lol. "NOT SOLD IN STORES". I want this!
This advert was horrible, they didn't show anything that would help me see how the game actually plays. I know they were trying to ham it up but a little info on the actual game would have be useful, as far as i can tell its ms paint.
@Emblem - You can tell it's MS Paint? I couldn't even tell that. I'm all for retro hamming it up but 1 still tells me nothing. It's nice that it lets you copy aad paste but how intuitive is the interface? How does it draw w/ the stylus? They probably spent more time on the commercial than making the game which is why they don't show it in action.
I love the video, but I assume there will also be a proper overview of the software and that this was just a teaser. Albeit a very catchy teaser.
I'm buying this based on the corny infomercial, alone.
Hail Minnesota
If I pick up a Wii U for Smash Bros this holiday, I'll definitely consider grabbing this on the shop. I love making pixel art but doing it on Photoshop or anything else can be a royal pain sometimes, with crashes and botched settings and whatnot.
I really like how this commercial was done. Thought it to be funny. I'm certainly interested in this, could be neat.
Hey all - I created Pixel Paint and I thought I'd pop in and clear some things up!
The reason the trailer was made in this way is that there was no good way to capture footage of it in use - the TV view is simply your full pixel art in all it's glory, so you can zoom in on the gamepad and still get a full picture. I don't have a way to capture from a gamepad, so I had to get a little creative.
Specifics on Pixel Paint itself - there are multiple canvas sizes to choose from, both a square and circle brush of any size, with a handy overlay as you're changing size. Cut/copy/undo/redo. Retro color palettes. Color fill and color replace. It sounds like the pixel artists I gave the application tool are craving at least a line tool, if not multiple shapes, so that'll be in eventually. Also planned is exporting to the SD card. And of course, you can upload to Miiverse.
It's simply a drawing application ala Art Academy: Sketchpad. Pixel art is one of the easier styles of art to get in to, especially for gamers, so even if you aren't an artist you should try it (even if not using Pixel Paint!).
@SanderEvers
Actually Nintendo requires everything on the eShop to be rated, but that isn't the biggest holdup - it's translation. There isn't much to translate in the application itself but the eManual has quite a bit. Don't worry though, it's coming! And it'll probably have some improvements by then as well.
Sorry, nothing against the application (can't really call it a "game"), but I'm not an artist. In fact I failed 8th grade art class.
@audiobrainiac Oh, thank goodness this wasn't a serious commercial. I'm glad they were joking.
Any word on how exporting creations would work? I've been interested in trying pixel art for a while (I suck at regular art, at the very least), but not being able or being too hard to export to my computer would be a total deal breaker in any case.
I bought this yesterday, i love the app.
I'm loving the miiverse community for this app. It looks really good, somehow I tried to buy it yesterday but it doesnt show on Canada eshop, any info on that?
@TwoKernel
Any news about when ir will come out in Canada?
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