Phixel: Pixel Art Market

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About this game

Phixel is a game where you draw pixel art and sell it in limited editions. Other players buy the copies, keep them in their collection or resell them.

How it works

Draw. Canvases come in seven sizes that follow φ, the golden ratio, from 13 × 8 to 233 × 144 pixels. You place every pixel yourself and can pick any of 16.7 million colors. Images can't be imported.

Sell. Every artwork is checked before it goes on sale. Once yours is approved, its edition is drawn at random, from 100 copies down to a single one, and it stays that way for good. Then you set your price and the whole edition goes on sale.

Collect. Buy from the artist or from other collectors, always at the lowest price on offer. You can resell your copies whenever you like. Buyers always get the cheapest copy first, and the artist earns 5% of every resale.

What makes a Phixel artwork

• A creation number. Numbering starts again at 1 for each canvas size, so S4 #8 is the eighth Medium artwork ever published.
• A limited edition. Once it has been drawn, no copy is ever added or removed.
• A film. The order of your pixels is recorded, and anyone can replay the artwork as it was drawn. Two identical pictures drawn in a different order are two different artworks.
• No exact copies. An artwork with the same colors and the same film as an existing one is refused, even turned or flipped.

Rarity

The number of copies sets the rarity: Common (51 to 100), Rare (21 to 50), Very rare (6 to 20), Ultra rare (2 to 5) and Unique (1). At level 1, a unique piece comes up once in 10,000,000 approved artworks. At level 10, it is once in 1,000,000. The app shows the odds before you buy a canvas, when you publish and when your edition is revealed.

Levels and canvases

Artists level up as they gain buyers. Higher levels unlock bigger canvases and better odds of a rare edition. Every new account gets a Standard canvas, and levels 3, 5, 7 and 9 each come with a canvas of the size they unlock.

Other players

Two rankings list the richest players and the top artists. You can follow players, like artworks, and find an artwork by its title, its artist or its number. If you turn notifications on, Phixel tells you when someone you follow puts a new artwork or copies up for sale, when an artwork you like is for sale again, and when a friend uses your code. It can also tell you when your artworks sell, with a quiet summary once a day. Each one has its own setting.

Good to know

• Phicoins are the in-game currency. You earn them by playing or buy them in packs, the only purchases in the app. They have no cash value and cannot be withdrawn.
• Verifying a phone number gives you 100 welcome Phicoins, once per number.
• Look around without an account. To publish, buy or sell, sign in with Apple or Google: Phixel never asks for a password.
• Phixel is for players aged 13 and over.
• There are no ads and no advertising trackers, and your data is never sold.

The full rules are in Help, on phixel.app.

What’s new

What's new:
• Signing in with Google works on more Android phones and tablets.
• When sign-in fails, the message now tells you why and what to do.