With the understanding that it is biased, a personal opinion and not a mathematical proof

Is there anyone who feels like naming a genre they've noticed?

To kick off, here is what I posted in the chatterbox earlier this week:

The style descriptions are partially a joke. We could get more serious in this thread..

Oldschool & improved: Ptoing, Helm, Ilkke, Tomic
Comes with superb dithering, well controlled (unsaturated) palettes and a secret love for double pixels and thick black borders

Popular computer games: This, Super Crate Box, Cave story, This
Tiny sprites in high resolution. Little detail and very cute in an '8-bit' way.

High def: Demoscene, Frost, Dex, thepixelknight
Why did this have to be pixel art? Would have looked just as impressive in another medium

Bubblegum (name coined by Skeddles): Delicious, Kenneth Fejer, Indigo, Gas13 & too many to mention
Sprites are small but well defined. Has outlines and is suitable for games. All artist in this style share an unconditional love for Pokemon.

Animator: Wayne, Stickman, FrankieSmileShow, B.O.B
Their is a lot to critique on their pixel styles, but the animation is worth an oscar!

Professional: Big Brother, Vierbit, a3um, Too many tom mention (Jalonso, Fool, Jinn, Mrmo_tarius)
A lot of colors, still super charming. Portfolios of these artists are usually well organized (similar preview images). They all love mockups, they are all productive and able to finish big things!


The wonderful cure made a similar list

Demoscene-
Tries to push the limits of the machine.
Often heavy dither and shape-bluffing.
Sub categories:
ZX Spectrum, C64, etc.

Retro-
Tries to emulate the restrictions of the machine (Particularly 8-bit Nintendo)

Old School-
Heavy dithering.
Adapted toward the faint blur of a CRT monitor.
Examples- ‘05-era st0ven or jaeden

New School-
Uses little dithering, emphasis on cluster control and anti-aliasing.
Adapted toward crispness for display on hi-def monitors.
Sub categories:
Bubblegum (New School Retro), Neo-scene

Isometric-
Subcategories: Pop Pixel (Eboy-Habbo), Da Good Stuff (Jal-Za)

Hybrid-
Mixes pixel art with automatic tools, filters, etc.
Examples: Superbrothers, Cellusious.




What do you guys think? Correct, incorrect? What is missing? How could we define categories better? Where does this all come from?

I am looking forward to see where this chat goes. 

. But the same happened somehow with the "jungle" set, where there's a placeholder blue screen.

Actually I think the blue screen works very well as 'sky', there is some talk about clouds which could be floating in the background and I specifically hope that there will be many tree elements to fill up a lot of space with! Such as for example the leaf background.
Also, to save effort we are leaving the inner tiles a solid color. It might even look weird to have a background in some parts but a solid color on the foreground

However, I think it is all solved if we go with the tile in Crow's edit! It looks nice and allows sprites to still be readable!

Of course, should some external programmer use these tiles he/she is free to disregard our BG's and pop up one of their own

That background tile is much nicer indeed! I tried to base my original (can't find it anymore) cave background also on Cave Story, but this is much better! Perhaps the dark lines need to go though!

In other news, the OPP has a wiki now! You can find all the latest versions of all artwork there too (the cave stuff not yet, I will change that soon!)

Suggestions, yes, but it is up to you what gets in eventually!

- cave tiles
- doors
- ladders
- bats
- spiders
- mushrooms
- crystals
- hidden laboratories
- monsters, characters, objects

However, mining, dinosaurs and cakes are very welcome  ! You should note that the jungle set already has a lost temple...