Pixel Route is a nonprofit organization for artists from British Columbia who are motivated to meet up at the annual Vancouver Global Game Jam at UBC. Our role in the Game Jam community is to provide teams with quality art and visual input for games. We focus more about supporting artists to feel confident in themselves. We align ourselves with GGJ’s mission statement: http://www.ggjvancouver.ca/ The Vancouver Global Game Jam is dedicated to: • Bring together students, enthusiasts and industry individuals to work together, side-by-side in an open-minded and judgment-free environment • Raise awareness of the video-game industry and relevant research in Vancouver, and the amazing people who work hard every day to create, cover, and play our games • To create opportunities for networking, resume-building and fostering mentoring relationships among people in our community, or those wishing to become more involved ------------------------------------------------- What We Do at Global Game Jam We aspire to bring an artist group that will provide art assets. There will be available spots for the Pixel Route table while excess members disperse and join with other teams. Pixel Route aims to benefit artists by sharing knowledge with each other about tools, techniques, color theory, lighting, and fundamentals in game design. This includes creating mockups and wireframes that will help improve the user interface and user experience as well. We will provide easier access to art for teams lacking artists. Developers, writers, and other creators will benefit in learning the type of information needed to improve workflow between them and artists (ie. resolution, size, format, focus, narrative, world description)
External link for Pixel Route
2350 Health Sciences Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia V6T, CA
900 Howe St #100
900 Howe St #100
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2M4, CA
GGJ2024 photos! This year the event was virtual, everything was run via the 2024 GGJV discord server with opening ceremonies was in-person at Vancouver Film School. Here's a peak of some of the art that Pixel Route artists helped out with. There were over 150+ participants and we helped 9 teams! It was a new attempt at organizing artists via Discord and online requests.
BC Game Jam 2022 photos! An amazing space that was full of resources and more space for teams to feel comfortable for events back in person. We were grateful to create together at the impressive venue Northeastern University hosted. We're proud to see so many artists show up because tickets sold out fast! We had a crew of 11 people and we helped over 6~8 games. Pixel Route hosted Pixel art and Photoshop tutorials on the main stage for the first time.
Here's a look at Pixel Route's first time at BC Game Jam 2019! We tried something new and showcased our artist's styles by selling stickers at our booth. It was great seeing the Jammers get excited with what they saw. The space was awesome and the midnight gaming sessions were spontaneous and memorable. Thanks for having us! Links to the games can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gFiKkJY
GGJ2019 - Another crazy jam completed! We're super grateful to everyone for keeping track of the requests since we had staff level commitments this year. Pixel Route and GGJ Vancouver and BUS staff worked together to save the event from being canceled! We helped finish 10 games this year! Here are the links to the games we helped support: https://lnkd.in/gQNm7uFD
GGJ2018 Pixel Route group photo! Thank you to everyone who supported our first year of launching this group. Honestly, this was much cooler than I could have done alone. It's amazing what you can do by just taking the time to ask and listen. Special thanks to Colin To and Kelvin Tu for taking the group photo for us.