retronator's profile picture. Matej 'Retro' Jan ๐ŸŒˆ Pixel artist, game developer, journalist

Working on a game for learning how to draw @PixelArtAcademy!
Steam: https://s.team/a/2330360

Retro ๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ๐ŸŽฎ Pixel Art Academy

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Matej 'Retro' Jan ๐ŸŒˆ Pixel artist, game developer, journalist Working on a game for learning how to draw @PixelArtAcademy! Steam: https://s.team/a/2330360

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This is it! After 9 years of work, @PixelArtAcademy finally got released also on Steam! If you ever wanted to learn pixel art, now you can do it in a video game as well: s.team/a/2330360


Just got sample prints of posters and canvases, coming soon to my new shop! The print quality is just wonderful and everything came out how I wanted it. Can't wait to share more, including t-shirts and something I'm most excited about: my own line of pixel art leggings!

retronator's tweet image. Just got sample prints of posters and canvases, coming soon to my new shop! 
The print quality is just wonderful and everything came out how I wanted it. Can't wait to share more, including t-shirts and something I'm most excited about: my own line of pixel art leggings!
retronator's tweet image. Just got sample prints of posters and canvases, coming soon to my new shop! 
The print quality is just wonderful and everything came out how I wanted it. Can't wait to share more, including t-shirts and something I'm most excited about: my own line of pixel art leggings!
retronator's tweet image. Just got sample prints of posters and canvases, coming soon to my new shop! 
The print quality is just wonderful and everything came out how I wanted it. Can't wait to share more, including t-shirts and something I'm most excited about: my own line of pixel art leggings!

Retro ๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ๐ŸŽฎ Pixel Art Academy ๋‹˜์ด ์žฌ๊ฒŒ์‹œํ•จ

Last day to get Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode on sale this year + check out all other cool educational games on the Back to School Celebration: store.steampowered.com/curator/446953โ€ฆ

PixelArtAcademy's tweet image. Last day to get Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode on sale this year + check out all other cool educational games on the Back to School Celebration:
store.steampowered.com/curator/446953โ€ฆ

What an adventure! In August 2015 I launched the idea for an adventure game where you become an art student and learn drawing alongside your character. I still have a long way to go, but it's still the right way. Thank you for following this epic journey! Video below:

Oh my, I've been making this game for 10 YEARS!!! ๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚ Couldn't have imagined how this decade would turn out, but I can look back and give you a nice retrospective: youtube.com/watch?v=Zj9MlFโ€ฆ

PixelArtAcademy's tweet image. Oh my, I've been making this game for 10 YEARS!!!
๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‚

Couldn't have imagined how this decade would turn out, but I can look back and give you a nice retrospective:
youtube.com/watch?v=Zj9MlFโ€ฆ


Such a cool theme, rock & metal pixel art RPG!

๐ŸŸฃ Take your guitar and prepare your riffs because #Fretless is officially OUT!!! Come and embark on a musical adventure where you'll restore harmony and save your land from Rick Riffson and his devilish goons in epic music battles! bit.ly/Fretless-Steam



That's some top point-and-click character and environment pixel art! Kathy Rain 2 is out now: store.steampowered.com/app/1466390/Kaโ€ฆ

9๏ธโƒฃ years after the original installment, Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer has FINALLY LAUNCHED! ๐Ÿš€๐ŸŽ‰ Private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet โ€” the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer ๐Ÿ”ช๐Ÿฉธ๐Ÿ”Ž Enjoy the release trailer below! ๐Ÿ‘‡



After a long time a new ZX Spectrum work. 6 colors, no bright mode. Drawn in Pixquare and dithered in GIMP.

retronator's tweet image. After a long time a new ZX Spectrum work. 6 colors, no bright mode. Drawn in Pixquare and dithered in GIMP.

Clouds practice #3, this time from my own reference with colors mostly picked plein air at a different sunset with similar conditions (Atari 2600 palette, as always).

retronator's tweet image. Clouds practice #3, this time from my own reference with colors mostly picked plein air at a different sunset with similar conditions (Atari 2600 palette, as always).

First artwork of 2025. I tried to retain the expressiveness of my pixel paintings but also clean it up and make the clusters at the edges reminiscent of impressionistic painting where there are abstract blobs of color that slowly get representational towards the center.

retronator's tweet image. First artwork of 2025. I tried to retain the expressiveness of my pixel paintings but also clean it up and make the clusters at the edges reminiscent of impressionistic painting where there are abstract blobs of color that slowly get representational towards the center.

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