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by EyeballKid 757 days ago
I feel compelled to plug my own DPaint-inspired app: http://evilpixie.scumways.com/

You can tell it's a really professional project because I wrote a press release for the last version:

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

2022-12-13 / SCUMWAYS TOP SECRET VOLCANO LAIR

Art World Rocked by Amazing New EvilPixie Release

New version features vibrant, brand new pixels.

Scumways Corp. today announced a new release of it's legendary pixel-editing application EvilPixie.

The new '0.3 "Your in test" TCE Shanghai Gutter' release is a revolutionary new development providing an experience unlike any other pixel art package in the history of pixel art packages[1].

With a huge established audience of dedicated fans[2], this new release promises to take the industry by storm.

Scumways Corp. spokesman Brian Credibility today said "Our studies show that this new release provides 754.1% more synergy than the next leading brand. The clients we've been working rave about increased pixel yields, and love the enterprise-wide approach to the unique value proposition when integrated into quadruple-A next-generation middle-out distributed landscape personal environment cloud-based network-enabled local client ecosystems."

Via séance, notable artists have also given their unanimous endorsement:

    "I'll definitely be using this to demonstrate Commodore's next computer." - Spirit of Andy Warhol
    "Questa fantastica app sono i fottuti testicoli del cane!" - Spirit of Leonardo Da Vinci
    "Se ve un poco raro" - Spirit of Salvador Dali
EvilPixie is hand crafted from organic, fair trade, ethically-sourced local electrons. It's very Eco. The new version can be downloaded at:

https://github.com/bcampbell/evilpixie/releases

[1] Except Deluxe Paint, which it apes shamelessly, down to the keyboard shortcuts. And all the Dpaint clones, of course. And asesprite. And ProMotion. And all the other pixelart apps. But other than that, there's _nothing_ like it out there!

[2] The programmer and his 11-year old daughter, who use it occasionally.

4 comments

I absolutely loved the press release, I hope you'll do more! I'm not following your project because of it!
Groovy, I love the zoom! any plans to implement color cycling with tab like in the good old days? I used to spend hours tripping out to cool color cycling... I'm a firmware programmer and don't know much about windows, but how easy/hard is it to build for windows? +1 for "Brian Credibility"
I definitely want Palette colour cycling! But getting some support in there for layers is my current priority. Development is driven by whatever missing feature currently annoys me the most :-)

I use https://www.mingw-w64.org for the windows build - which makes it nice and easy to get the compiler and dependencies installed (Qt, libpng, libjpeg, giflib). Once you've got the dependencies set up it Just Works (tm), on Linux, Windows and Mac (although I don't have a mac to build/test on these days).

That looks nice and I love your presentation!
Love this and will use it with my kid this weekend. Thanks for sharing it.