Pixelles stands in solidarity with Palestine. We believe in the Palestinian people’s right to live free of occupation and violence.We can not stay silent while Palestinian families are bombed by Israel every day. The apartheid and war crimes being carried…
Raffle: GDC 2021 Passes
GDC stands for the Game Developers Conference. It’s one of the largest conferences on game development in the world featuring panels, lectures, and roundtables on a variety of topics. This raffle offers 25 people the opportunity to win an All Access…
Application for the Pixelles BIPOC Creator Program
Applications for the current round closed 11:59pm EST, January 24, 2021. Thank you to all who applied to our BIPOC Creator Program, and thank you for your patience as we enter the selection phase.
Polish and debugging
Here we are! We’ve reached the end of this programme and your games are almost done… or not! It’s ok and, in fact, we encourage you to continue working on your games. For now, let’s look at debugging and polish.…
Intro to playtesting and quality assurance
We’re already at week seven of the incubator and the games are now ready to be tested! This week, we talked about playtesting and quality assurance testing, important steps in game making. Playtesting When we playtest a game, we are…
Intro to narrative design
We’ve started this sixth week with a discussion on narrative design with Jill Murray. We looked at stories, narration, the roles of narrative designers, and how to integrate narrative elements in our game worlds. What is narrative design? A quick…
Intro to game audio
Hello! Are your projects coming along? Are you happy with what you’ve done so far? We are have officially started the second half of the programme. If you wish to make changes to your game or review its scope, you…
Intro to art direction
Hello! We are reaching the halfway point of the program this week. You still have time to build your project. In fact, every year, some participants choose to change their game and are surprised with the speed they’ve acquired in…
Intro to programming logic
Hello everyone! How’s your game coming along? This week was all about game programming; let’s dive in! Past incubee’s takeaways – some advice We started the session with a look on the incubator’s overall experience. Everyone’s project is starting to…
Design, scope and prototyping
And that’s a wrap for week 2 of our very first virtual incubator! We have lots to cover already, so let’s get right into it! This week was all about the basics of Game Design. Our incubees were asked to…
