18th November 2020

Hey everyone, ShivaShadowsong here. PixelRealm has fallen into gross disregard during the last 5 years due to my own lack time to develop it and lack of sponsorship, public interest in the website itself, etc.

I see the page still mentioned on various places and people are still looking for Pixel Art assets and tutorials as always! 

I am happy to say that soon enough, I'll be able to provide you with a new platform that will be free to use which will contain all of the information and free sprites that used to be hosted on PixelRealm and much more!

Until then, I've left the free sprites section up on this website.

If you wish to stay in touch, you can contact me on discord at ShivaShadowsong#9795 or keep an eye on my website shivashadowsong.com where I will announce the launch of the new platform when it's time.

28th September, 2015

I am glad to announce that PixelRealm is now sponsored by HalfAway!

Check out the HalfAway website here for more awesome OT related tools and a reliable hosting service if you are interested in that kind of stuff.

Cheers!

28th September, 2015

Hey folks!

Today we have some nice news.

There's a new featured artist on PixelRealm called Leshrot and he's available for hire. He also brought a bunch of sweet images to his gallery so make sure to check his profile out.

He also contributed 2 pokemon sprites for free download, Mewtwo and Rayquaza.

There's also 1 new armor item in the free downloads archive, courtesy of Galiant.

September 24th, 2015

The free downloads archive has been updated with new content:

* Added 1 new pair of legs.
* Added 1 new robe.
* Added 1 new pair of boots.
* Added 3 new backpacks and a relic.
* Added a new set of stone walls.

Courtesies of Saphron and Daniel.

September 23rd, 2015

PixelRealm has been updated with a bunch of new stuff and some artists have updated their profiles.

Ever since we opened a few months ago, we've received almost 1500 unique views, which is not that much, but not that disappointing either. If 1500 people have checked out and browsed the site already, that means we're on a good way!

Unfortunately, not too many have been eager to join the BuildTheRealm project, but my hopes are still high that it will turn out great if we manage to get just a few contributions. We'll see about that in the future, but for now, enjoy the new content, and as always, feel free to download the new sprites that were added to the archive.

Full changelog here:

• Updated the Featured Art on the [Gallery].

• Updated the [Gallery] with new work of the featured artists.

• Saphron has updated his profile with a ton of new stuff and a new portfolio.

• ShivaShadowsong has updated his profile with new portfolio images.

[Free Downloads]:
    * Added 1 new helmet.
    * Added 1 new armor.
    * Added 1 new pair of legs.
    * Added 1 new pair of boots.
    * Added 1 new ring.
    * Added 1 new shield.
    * Added 1 new amulet.
    * Added a torch.
    * Added 1 new set of walls.
    * Added 2 new tilesets.
    * Added 2 new health and 2 new mana potions.
    * Added 1 new object.
    
    (Thanks to Arkan', Thorn and Daniel)

-- ShivaShadowsong

September 3rd, 2015

A fellow artist submitted a bunch of new, very nice sprites to PixelRealm for download! Feel free to grab them on in our download archive.

Huge thanks to Daniel, and we hope you keep posting!

-- ShivaShadowsong

August 18, 2015

We're about to have a new artist featured on PixelRealm , and he made sure to introduce himself with quite a blast. Check out the free graphics area of PixelRealm to grab a great new set of sprites that are completely free.

Courtesy of Etchebeur.

SoonTM.

August 12, 2015

Along with a bunch of updates to our artists and the splitting of the download section into the 3 individual "Resource" sections, Pixel Realm now has a new feature - or better said, a new project that anyone can be a part of!

We present you the BUILD THE REALM project. In this team effort, we'll try to rework the entire website into a semi-interactive, pixel art covered platform, rather than what what it looks like at the moment.

In the header menu, click the link to go to the BUILD THE REALM page and find out more about the project. We hope this gives all pixel artists a small, non time-consuming yet fun challenge. Create an element, two or five, and send them to us so we can feature them on the website and build the website with your own creations.

Let's get going!

July 10, 2015

Hello again everyone! I've got a lot to talk about today, so let's ease into it slowly with something delicate. It has been a truly long night for me, barely had any sleep in 3 days and I've been working on my project which exhausted me to the point of taking a few hours long break. 

Thankfully, I was not dumb enough to waste this time on something not productive, so I started working on a sweet update for PixelRealm. And, as you can see, here it is.

Unfortunately, we were not able to raise enough funds to back PixelRealm up for a year of hosting services, and I could not wait to push this a step further, so I dug up a monthly subscription option (which I previously thought had not existed) and upgraded PixelRealm. There are no longer any unwanted ads here, and we are now available on a new domain: pixelrealm.org

Woohoo!

Anyway - the Gallery has been updated with some latest work from our featured artists, and the chat room from the right side of this homepage has been removed and replaced with a more convenient Tavern tab that allows you to open the old (a bit upgraded now) chatroom in a new popup window.

Due to a high demand, we now also have a Tutorial section. I'll do my best to put up quality tutorials written by me and other artists to help you out with your pixel-art struggles and questions.

I am very exicted to have taken this step forward with PixelRealm and I look forward to seeing more people come around and hang out. Now that the entire deal with the domain has been settled, I can start spreading the word of PixelRealm even outside of OTLand and I hope that many others will contribute to the website and help me make this the place to be for aspiring digital artists.

See you soon and enjoy!

-- Shiva Shadowsong

June 28, 2015

Hi everyone! During these few days of it being online, PixelRealm has already done some wonderful things and gathered the attention of many people.

We want to thank you all for checking it out and we hope you find this platform useful in one way or another.

Today, we ask anyone who is interested in supporting this project to donate to it, in order to help us grow.

We need to raise $115 to buy a domain (pixelrealm.org) and to buy a work-plan on wix.com that will last us an entire year. All donators will receive a honorable mention, a medal, and if we reach this goal, I'm personally going to upload some of my own work as free for use, including a full sprite sheet for 1 creature.

Funds raised: $56

Funds needed: $115

Thanks in advance for your generosity.

Let's bring PixelRealm a step further!

-- Shiva Shadowsong

June 23, 2015

What was just an idea 2 days ago, turned into quite a refreshing new project right now. The pixel realm is now open for any visitor, and I'll try to make the website informative and useful, both for artists and for the viewers. 

I added a chatbox on this main page, a bunch of content that you can explore and I hope to start receiving some feedback, ideas and portfolios for artists that I can upload here.

Rejoice! And invite everyone to help us build a community here.

- Shiva Shadowsong