#pyxel

[mod-vincent]

[theautumnaldemon]

Official Pyxel playlist woohoo

[itsmergb]

Artfight day 33: Mass attack on @comicwolf! This was a total blast, and i enjoyed drawing this very much. This attack comes with a little bonus goodie (tbh creature), as well as a speedpaint!

For whatever reason, Tumblr is entirely refusing to paste links, so I’ll have to edit that in later :(

Check out below the cut for individual icons + the surprise yippee.

Will add the rest in a reblog

[maplewoodstreet]

Making Music In Pyxel Game Engine

This little manual was written by someone experienced with chiptune trackers like Furnace, but inexperienced with Pyxel. I thought about making this because after a quick Google search there wasn’t much documentation on how to make music in Pyxel. If there’s any incorrect information here, feel free to correct me.

For those who aren’t familiar, Pyxel is a game engine designed to imitate retro consoles. It was developed by Takashi Kitao, lead developer of the Zone of the Enders series. You can run Pyxel in Python or you can use Pyxel Studio, which lets you use Pyxel in your browser. (It seems that the Pyxel Studio website is primarily in French, but you should be able to use it if you only speak English.)

The music and sound effects limitations of Pyxel appear to be inspired from the NES and Game Boy. There are 4 channels. As per usual with NES and Game Boy chiptune music, it is recommended the sound effects be used in the least musically important channel, which is often the channel used for harmony.

Be sure the Speed is set to the same number for all parts of the song. Otherwise, the sections will be out of tempo with each other when played back.

The piano roll allows notes from C1 to B5. The lowest pegs are blue. Blue pegs indicate a rest.

You have 5 wave shapes for timbre: triangle, pulse, square, sawtooth, and noise. From what I can hear, I think the triangle wave is an NES-like, stepped triangle wave instead of a perfect triangle shape. (A stepped triangle has more character to it; normal triangle waves sound very similar to sine waves otherwise.)

A Sound is a small section of the Editor where you can place notes on a piano roll sequencer. There are 6 measures per Sound. You can fit 8 pegs into one measure. You can fill a Sound with a max of 48 pegs.

There are 8 volume levels to assign each peg, labeled 0 through 7, with 0 being mute.

The Music Section is a section of the Editor where you arrange your Sounds into a complete song. There are 8 songs, labeled 0 through 7. There are 32 spots per channel to place your Sounds.

You can create 64 Sounds, labeled 00 through 63. This means that ultimately you are limited to a max of 384 measures (or 3,072 pegs) for both music and sound effects in a game.

It is clear that this is not a composing tool, but a tool you use to arrange the music to Pyxel chiptune format. I recommend composing your music on an instrument or DAW separately and then manually convert the song in Pyxel.

Apparently, it is possible for games to play audio files in Pyxel—and not only audio files but also play them in 5.1 surround sound—as shown by GRASLAY by Ontake44…but I don’t know how to do this lol

[zeyien]

I wanted to share my knowledge about game dev so ii made this quick guide for everyone starting in this world 😃! Feel free to share with others and I hope it helps you

[elborto]

i have watched little shop of horrors a LOT recently, god help my friends im so sorry

[galaxybean]

[thegrassmenagerie]

!!a BOY!