Filed under: Macintosh, Open Source
Pixen: Photoshop for pixel art
by Jordan Running Sep 28th 2005 at 6:20PM
Pixen is, as Victor at TUAW puts it, "Photoshop for pixel artists." It features the usual painting and selection tools, but the rest is tailored just for pixel art, such as the alignment crosshair for creating guides, the "smart" palettes, and the tiled view. Pixen is open-source software for the Mac, and the Pixen download page also features a gradient color picker and contributed color palettes.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
