Pixel Slam Jam PIXEL SLAM JAM Season 4 Trial I: Glitz and Gore

Can you manage your way through the perils of playing with tiny little colored squares?
This is the Pixel Slam Jam! Relic Castle's pixel contest that happens... whenever!

Pixel Slam Jam Season 4 Trial I: Glitz and Gore!

Event dates: October 2nd to October 9th, 2021

Welcome to the most haunting Pixel Slam Jam yet... imagine the cutest Pokémon you can, but get it all spooked up for Halloween!

Example sprite:

Awww, this Cubone is an adorable killer! Is its nickname Jason?

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About this event:
The Pixel Slam Jam is a friendly competitive event where participants create pixel art based on a theme. Submissions can be spliced sprites or scratch work, and do not have to fit the standards/limitations of Essentials or RMXP. If you have made something prior that happens to fit the current theme please do not submit it here; our goal with this event is to provide a fun exercise for our members. There is a special time window where submissions are accepted, and when that ends the judges take a short time after to collectively decide who to award and write up any critiques.

Event Objectives:

• Show us an adorable Pokémon! And make sure you spook them up, as October is Halloween month!
• While "gore" is in the title, keep it PG-13 please!
• Post your pixel creation in this thread, and include your design thoughts with it!
• Mention in your post if you'd like to receive critique during the Award Round.
• Check back here after the conclusion to see who earned themselves a Pixel Slam Jam Badge!
  

Quick Rules:

• No submitting anything that was completed prior to the event.
• The limitations of game engines don't apply here! Use any size, shape, perspective and style you want so long as it's Pixel Art.
• Do not critique in this thread. Got questions or comments? Post in the Pixel Slam Jam Discussion thread.
• One entry per person and one person per entry.

Judges:

• @Monika~♡
• @catwithnojob

Is this Pixel Slam Jam not for you? Check out some of these links:

• Make a Fakemon Game where everyone takes turns editing a sprite to completion. Always open!
• Post ideas and feedback for Pixel Slam Jams in the Discussion Thread!
• Looking for the mapping competition? The Iron Mapper will return soon for Trial 2!
• Have other feedback or ideas about Relic Castles events? Shoot me a DM, use the Contact Form, or let us know in our Questions & Feedback Thread!

 

[King_Waluigi]

Title: Drifty's Halloween!

I really like the way this turned out! It could use some work, but I wanted to keep it simple! If you want you can give feedback!

 

[Sailorxraven]

Title: Zombie Skitty

I'm still rather new to spriting, but I like how this one came out!

 

[Scizor User]

Title: Dracula's here

What's Halloween without a Dracula​

 

[Clifford]

A quick scribble of my favorite flying marshmallow. Normal, meaty thing

 

[Vixiria]

Title: New Moon Teddiursa

A teddiursa with an unreadable face, it only appears on pitch black nights. Little is known about it. It seems to despise bright lights.

I thought of using teddiursa's moon marking to obscure it's eyes, and instead of a full moon used a darker new moon motif. I gave it smaller ears to give it less expression and larger more powerful limbs with bigger more dangerous claws. I didn't want to put actual blood on it so instead I used it's darker markings to imply stained limbs. I kept it's proportions relatively "cute" to balance out it's less friendly aspects.
I think it probably lives deep in caves where there is no light, and has trouble in bright environments. I wouldn't want to meet what it evolves into. Maybe it could be the first Ghost/Normal?

 

[KennyCatches]

Title: "Moar Candy!!"

Munchie the Munchlax is ready for trick-or-treating! He's got his ghost costume (a little oversized and ripped but he's got the spirit) and his pumpkin treat bag.
Give him candy or else he'll body slam you!!

I'm trying to get better at spriting so this was great practice! I had a lot of fun making this!

Feedback please!

 

[Shuckle the God]

Title: Don't feed it after midnight.

If someone fed shuckle after midnight I would have thought it to be a dark type.

 

[Tomix9tomix]

Title: Surskit gets stuck!

Feedback please!

I'm really not an artist so this isn't anything spectacular, I was also quite stuck on design ideas, so it is kinda bland. Just thought, hey, imagine a cute Surskit stuck in a pumpkin with its cute legs poking out.
Making this was really a challenge for me, but that's part of the learning process I guess. I'm proud that I was able to finish it to a standard that was better than I thought I could do. Here is to hoping I get even better at pixel art and can do art for fangames one day!

 

[papurika]

Sableye and Nanu

Feed back Please

Sableye with a Chinese zombie (Jiangshi) costume. I hope Sableye counts as a cute Pokemon....????





Actually, I just wanted to draw Nanu. Sorry.

 

[Quinn]

Title: Mummy Sylveon

 

[Astefia]

Red Painter Vulpix. Someone likes Ninetails from Okami a lot.
The costume is simple, 6 rugs and some paint, but makes enough of an impression.

Critique: sure, and please show examples.

 

[trainer00002]

trubbish is very happy about its pumpki... uh... wait, did someone put something in its bag... hey...

(open to feedback but there's not much to this, lol)

 

[Hornet]

Title: Squirtle Crow

Beware on Halloween night of the wild Squirtle crow!

They say he hides out in the cornfields waiting to steal candy from unsuspecting trick-or-treaters... sometimes, at the cost of their lives!




The first "Cute" pokemon I thought of was a Squirtle, and now Squirtle is a scarecrow.
I don't really do anything sprite-related ever so this is technically the first custom sprite that I've made. I actually had a really fun time making this and would love to have any/all feedback!

Happy Halloween!

 

[Aryesh]

Title : Mimikyu in Gengar disguise

Feedback Please
During Halloween ,Mimikyu don't disguise pikachu he doesn't want to make friends ?instead he disguise gengar and become more scary.??

 

[Samdeman123124]

Title: Litwick's Revenge

Litwick doesn't like the way you're training it... it may be cute, but Litwick isn't playing games any more...
(Feedback please, I made this super quickly for a sprite.)

 

[Mirroon]

Title: Precious Boy Spheal

Spheal came from heaven to go trick or treat.

I like Spheal and Spheal is precious and cute. Feedback please.

 

[Armin]

Title: Witch Gardevoir

Not to be confused with When Gardevoir, What Gardevoir and Why Gardevoir.
Feedback is okay~

 

[ranko]

Every project has a few guidelines and regulations that entities must abide by, so we usually take away key possessions that could be considered hazardous to the main script.

But erm, I don't think we hid Shuppet's knife well enough.

Was kind of slacking on this, but I didn't want to miss the deadline and I was honestly stuck anyway (how do I account for the darkness shadow lmao). Pixel Slam Jam was my first community event and while I've grown a lot as a dev since then, I honestly haven't bothered to practice scratch pixel art since that VERY first event, so this was an extremely fun learning experience! Feedback is totally welcome! I'd love to get better and better at this.

Spoiler Bonus: References and alts lol

 

[Napkat]

Title : The Lost Mudkip

Mudkip has entered a place where he should not visit but then the darkness has corrupted this little Mudkip and no one will see this Mudkip same as before.

Before i made this, i have finished my assignment then i found this event, so i was thinking "maybe a little pixel art in a little time will make me feel better", so i choose Mudkip because it's a cute pokemon then start making this. There's not much going on in this but it's really fun doing it.

Feedback please.