This has never made sense to me, for example, if you click on the number 10 from the color palette, all cells with the number 10 will highlight in grey but so will other numbers like number 21, and number 18 so you'll have to search for number 10 cells jumbled in with several other grey-highlighted cells. For some odd reason, several numbers/colors are shaded at the same time in the same area making it impossible to easily spot the numbered cells you are working on. With most games, the current chosen number/color is highlighted with a shade that sticks out in a crowd so you can easily identify where the available cells are located, even without a map location feature. This is the area that Pixel Art games fail miserably. You can also change the color of the Highlighted cells to various shades of grey. The most annoying feature that has yet to be addressed is the fact that you are forced to complete the first level before you can access the next set of images, rest assured, those images are dreadful too! Other than the auto-fill, there are only a couple of other features or options offered.the same original features, nothing new has been updated since the first Pixel Art game! There is a Slider Bar that allows you to zoom in & out (there's a "fit" tab as well) you can also move the entire page around by right-clicking and dragging. (a sound alerts you when the auto-fill feature is available each time) The auto-fill feature will fill in large groups of pixels when you double-click on a cluster of numbers, but that feature has to recharge after each use. You simply left-click to fill in all the numbers with the correct color, you can also hold the mouse button and swipe through large groupings of numbers. Each pixel has a number that is filled in with its corresponding color/number from the palette on the right side. Pixel Art is a computer version of Paint by Numbers, in a pixelated version. The chosen colors are always bland, unappealing, and rarely pop with shades and hues that complement one another versus shades that muddle together like you just added a glob of red, yellow, and blue paint together to make a huge brown mess. These images are boring and lack any semblance of "curb appeal". It's also a pain to have to scroll back & forth between colored number sets) (which btw: I've had to click 3-4 times before the color is accepted, not to mention how difficult it is to click the arrow to scroll to the next set of numbers. Other pixel art games have so many useful features, such as maps that show the current color locations, features that tell you how many cells each color has available, and one of my favorites was choosing the desired colors shown as crayons versus just square color boxes. If they keep me interested, I will continue to purchase them.ĪRE YOU KIDDING ME? If someone who was new to this genre opened this game, the chances of them exiting the game immediately are almost guaranteed.the images are the worse I've seen in ANY pixel art game!Īs I've been saying a lot lately, Pixel Art is now nothing more than a "dated" old-fashioned game with none of the features that the new kids on the block have to offer.
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I have, however, enjoyed the Pixel Art series and have purchased several of them. No outline of the picture behind the pixels. I have also mentioned in past reviews that I think it would add some fun if they presented an image that consisted of a plain white background with just numbered pixels so that we didn't know what the picture was until it was completed. Some of the earlier versions had more complex pictures, some of them being reproductions of famous works of art, like pieces by Van Gogh and Munch, which were fun to see come to life in a Pixel version. In fact, there were so many of them in #17, I was able to complete the series twice between when it was released and In this latest series, #18, there are 28, or 35% of the total pictures that are the simple pictures that are outlined in black. However, the last two series, #17 and #18 have contained a lot of really simple pictures.
Pixel Art requires you to find the pixels and does show you literally every move like the Paint By Number games.