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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 02/10/2026

I keep seasoning my carbon steel wok in my unventilated kitchen and then wondering why I'm coughing so much I am not very bright anyway here's some old pixel art I guess

Screenshot from an unreleased pixel art game. A large, humanoid figure stands in the centre of a messy room. It has hollow eye sockets, claws in place of hands and a tentacle growing from one shoulder. The scene is drawn with a 2-bit palette and overlaid with a dot matrix style effect.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 01/10/2026

spooky season! come join me at the shrine we will summon the spirits together <3

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 23/09/2026

feeling autumnal also feeling tired but hey you can't win them all

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 18/09/2026

bought me a new pan who has tips for me?

picture of a toothily smiling figure in a mech suit, brandishing a carbon-steel wok proudly in one hand. They have an absurdly oversized back banner which declares their love for carbon steel.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 15/09/2026

more OBLITERATION shader photo-mangling experiments

Highly distorted photo of a forest stream in the morning light, covered with a blanket of fog/mist.

Heavily distorted photograph of the interior of a church. It's illuminated by the sun's light through a huge stained-glass window. The colour palette of the image is heavily limited, with noticeable artifacts at colour boundaries

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 14/09/2026

giraffe kissing game loooooong not-jam.itch.io/necking

2 giraffes stand in a field, facing each other. The one on the right side has an absurdly long, snake-like neck that curls around the screen. The one on the left looks somewhat perturbed.

Drawn in a pixel art style with a very warm, saturated palette at a very low resolution.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 10/09/2026

happy birthday to me here's a silly little game that I made for you about giraffes kissing <3 not-jam.itch.io/necking

Screenshot from the game necking. Two giraffes stand at either end of an oddly shaped area, surrounded by green foliage. They are separated by the odd shape of the area and a strange, semi-transparent blue line. In the bottom right hand corner of the screen is a bright blue pond.

The scene is drawn in a pixel art style with low resolution and a limited palette. The environment is clearly delineated into 8x8 pixel tiles.

Screenshot from the game necking. Two giraffes stand directly adjacent, one of them upside-down beneath the other. They are located within a square, sandy area, surrounded by green foliage.

The scene is drawn in a pixel art style with low resolution and a limited palette. The environment is clearly delineated into 8x8 pixel tiles.

Screenshot from the game necking. Two giraffes stand at the top and bottom of an oddly shaped area, surrounded by green foliage. The giraffe on the bottom is upside-down.

The scene is drawn in a pixel art style with low resolution and a limited palette. The environment is clearly delineated into 8x8 pixel tiles.

A very amateurish picture of a giraffe, done in a moderately high-res pixel art style. It is very scruffy and could have used a lot of touching up. The giraffe stands in the savannah, surrounded by bright green foliage.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 07/09/2026

MOT day repost wish me luck

Pixel art depicting an old, run down car parked at the side of the road on an old, run down street. A bald character wearing a cloak stands to the side, looking upon the car with a blank expression that in context the viewer might interpret as sadness or defeat.

At the bottom of the frame, text reads "the car is broken."

The image is drawn with a purple 2-bit palette at Game Boy resolution.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 29/08/2026

obliteration_shader_test_29_08_26

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 28/08/2026

another version with different OBLITERATION parameters just for fun :)

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 28/08/2026

daily mangled video, seeing how the shader plays with video that has more movement shader written for Godot, drop me a comment/message if you'd like source code :)

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 27/08/2026

more video mangling shader

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 26/08/2026

let's see how badly bsky video compression fucks up my fucked up video (OBLITERATION shader video test)

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 25/08/2026

alternative implementation of shadows on my OBLITERATION shader allowing for more complex shadows user defines number of layers of shadow, contrast, depth and pixel scale, can get real weird with it if you want

Heavily processed picture of a grassy cliffside looking out onto the ocean. It features large, blocky pixels of colour, but with light and shadow rendered with much higher levels of detail. It is highly saturated

The Scottish Highlands, rendered in an odd, highly pixelated style. Green and golden fields sit between rolling hills, illuminated by rays of sunshine fighting through the clouds. Colour is rendered at low resolution with a low colour count, although this is somewhat hidden by much higher resolution light and shadow.

Autumnal birch trees on the shore of a pond, with glorious red and orange hues through the leaves. Colour count is relatively low, with noticeable pixelation. Oddly, colour components of the image are rendered at a much higher resolution than light and dark, resulting in a really strange mosaic-like feeling.

A clifftop rendered with a low-colour count palette in a pixelated style. It features an enormous sea arch above clear still blue water.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 25/08/2026

color banding much more obvious with dark images in my implementation, but I really kind of like it? Maybe I've been staring at the shader results too long

A car park for a group of houses and apartments, pictured in the depths of night in the winter. Cars and streets blanketed in snow are illuminated by the glow of street lights. Tower blocks are faintly visible in the background of the photo. It's heavily processed, with dramatic pixelation and colour reduction creating an almost pixel art feel.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 24/08/2026

the shader really likes sand dunes, apparently

heavily processed image of sand dunes, with extensive colour indexing and pixelation. It has a highly stylised and saturated look. The sky features extremely prominent colour banding.

a heavily processed photograph of sand dunes, albeit less extreme than the previous example. It still makes use of colour indexing and pixelation, but less obviously.

The original photo of sand dunes. The dunes themselves are a vibrant orange colour, whilst the sky is a pale blue. A group of people stand atop the crest of the dune. Wind blows sand particles from left to right.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 23/08/2026

I'm chatting about why you shouldn't index your colours linearly look see how the first image is fucked up and the second is much nicer I swear it's very interesting and not at all massively nerdy

trees on the side of a lake or pond, deep into autumn, full of glorious golden and orange hues, pixelated and distorted. Brighter areas of the picture are messy, with large contrasts between hues that should be close

trees on the side of a lake or pond, deep into autumn, full of glorious golden and orange hues. It's pixelated again, but with much better definition in brighter areas
1200×898 106 KB

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 23/08/2026

we're writing shaders to OBLITERATE your photos over on The Underscore come join us here theunderscore.xyz/t/how-do-you... or send me a photo for DESTRUCTION

trees on the side of a lake or pond, deep into autumn, full of glorious golden and orange hues.

trees on the side of a lake or pond, deep into autumn, full of glorious golden and orange hues. This time, the photo has been subjected to heavy treatment, with a dramatically reduced resolution and colour count and some severe visual artifacts

A grassy clifftop on the coast, above sea which appears especially deep blue. The sky is clear as far as the eye can see. Wind is creating small waves and sending ripples through the grass.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 23/08/2026

hey so just to let you know Battery Acid Boy 2 is still free features shooty lasers and little guys going fast and centipedes and chiptune that goes pretty hard not-jam.itch.io/battery-acid...

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 20/08/2026

some of this is more soundfont-esque honestly but that'd be less snappy for the post so chiptune it is oh here's the alt text too because bsky alt text for videos remains dogshit:

A pixel art scene, behind which various chiptune tracks in a variety of genres play. The scene consists of a figure standing and gazing at a floating game cartridge. The figure is beneath a glowing streetlight, softly illuminating the immediate area, whilst in the background rain falls heavily.

The scene is drawn with a 2-bit palette, going from navy through brown and orange to a warm off-white.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 20/08/2026

Free CC0 chiptunes that I made for you because I know Wednesdays are difficult not-jam.itch.io/not-jam-musi... not-jam.itch.io/not-jam-musi...

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 17/08/2026

The Boat (2018) has a terrible title that makes it way more difficult than necessary to find. I do love a good one-hander though, and this delivers, making for a gripping and tense experience from start to finish

Screenshot from the 2018 film The Boat. A man wearing a pained or stressed expression is facing away from a small boat with a large mast, adrift on the ocean.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 17/08/2026

Water Womb World is an excellent experience, dripping with atmosphere, great sound design and a really striking aesthetic. It's also very short, at around 15 minutes for a playthrough - no excuse not to play, honestly! pantagruel.itch.io/water-womb-w...

Screenshot from the game Water Womb World. The screen is heavily processed, with a pronounced blue colour and a lot of distortion and visual artifacts, but appears to show some kind of laboratory. Various options are listed to the right of the screen in some kind of user interface.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 17/08/2026

Triangle was a great knotty time-loop movie. I admittedly have a bit of a weakness for this sort of thing (see also Primer, Coherence...), and once you add in a claustrophobic ship setting and it'd be hard to go wrong for me, but I really did enjoy this

Movie poster for the film Triangle. A woman with long blonde hair, white tank top and shorts stands on the bloody deck of a ship, carrying a large fire axe. The shot is taken from a pronounced Dutch angle. The movie's title is displayed in all caps across the bottom of the screen.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 17/08/2026

weirdly specific request, but does anyone have any recommendations for nautically-themed horror movies/games? pic unrelated, I just don't have any sea-based pixel art

a bunch of tiny pixel art sprites dotted around a black landscape. They're a mix of human figures of various races, and some skeletons, and wear an assortment of different hats, hairstyles and clothing. Many are carrying weapons. All are coloured using blue, white and pink.

Through the center of the image is a brick wall, mostly in white but with the occasional coloured brick mixed in. Patches of green grass are scattered about, along with a small handful of tiny rocks.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 16/08/2026

evening all computer bluescreened again so I went for a lie down what did I miss?

pixel art mockup for a game. The screen is split into multiple sections, primarily composed of UI elements, with a central image depicting a figure with a ponytail sat in a hunched posture in front of a bluescreened computer. To her left, rain can be seen pouring through the window, whilst to her right is a kitchenette with a kettle and aeropress and a cat sat on the counter. The UI contains a character portrait, various stats, a list of "actions" which just endlessly repeats the word "panic" and a "console" section with an error message.

The image is mostly drawn with a simple 1-bit palette, with just a splash of blue for the computer's monitor and a glow in the surrounding area to draw the eye to it.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 16/08/2026

29 pixel fonts that I made, totally free and CC0 because honestly you deserve some nice fonts today not-jam.itch.io/not-jam-font...

Text set in pale green over a dark blue-green background. The font used is Not Jam Atomic, a bold pixel font with plenty of grungey detail and sharp, angular corners. It reads:

"A pixel font
by Not Jam

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER A LAZY DOG.
sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

.ttf format
CC0 licence"

Text set in pale green over a dark blue-green background. The font used is Not Jam Mono Clean 8, a monospace sans pixel font with short ascenders and no descenders. It reads:

"A pixel font
by Not Jam

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER A LAZY DOG.
sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

.ttf format
CC0 licence"

Text set in pale green over a dark blue-green background. The font used is Not Jam Mono Crooked 8, a monospace sans pixel font with a deliberately wonky look to it. It reads:

"A pixel font
by Not Jam

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER A LAZY DOG.
sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

.ttf format
CC0 licence"

Text set in pale green over a dark blue-green background. The font used is Not Jam Blackletter 13, a pixel font inspired by classic blackletter typefaces. It reads:

"A pixel font
by Not Jam

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

.ttf format
CC0 licence"

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 16/08/2026

game about trampolines -> not-jam.itch.io/battery-acid...

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 06/08/2026

It arrived! Look at the pretty colours :)

A pastel pink game controller with white buttons, d-pad and joysticks resting on a wooden surface, with a couple of fake plants adding a little additional colour in one corner of the frame.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 05/08/2026

Thank you to everyone for the advice - really interesting to see just how many options there are! I ended up going for an 8BitDio controller in peach, were a lot of recommendations for the brand but also mostly look at the colour

Picture of an 8BitDio controller for Windows in peach, with cream coloured buttons, d-pad and joysticks

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 04/08/2026

Anyone have any controller recommendations? Stick drift on my old one is getting worse daily and fixes I've tried don't seem to help Ideally easy to set up for PC, and categorically nothing produced by Microsoft please!

Tiny pixel art renditions of pokemon, each using a low colour count and extremely low resolution, with heavy use of anti-aliasing to create blocky shapes. From top left, proceeding clockwise, they include Seaking, Ekans, Voltorb and Ninetails

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 02/08/2026

hey worried that you might have been relaxing too much this Sunday so you should go play my game reviews have said it's "pretty hard" "super challenging" "feels like divine punishment" not-jam.itch.io/the-count-ge...

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 31/07/2026

I should probably add a link to this I guess Goblin vampire rhythm game with numbers you'll probably have a bad time if you don't have a numpad but the music is now certified good :) not-jam.itch.io/the-count-ge...

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 31/07/2026

what the fuck holy shit I'll take that thank you! <3

Screenshot of the GMTK results for The Count Gets Down Whilst The Count Counts Down. The game achieved the following scores:

1st place in Audio
607th place in Artwork
1957th place in enjoyment
2446th place in creativity
6052nd place in narrative

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 25/07/2026

The Count Gets Down Whilst The Count Counts Down because I am very good at titles Chiptune rhythm game for #GMTKJam2026 not-jam.itch.io/the-count-ge...

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 25/07/2026

game about weird goblin vampire creature who likes to dance out tomorrow probably for GMTK Jam

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 17/07/2026

happy friday I'm drinking red whilst wearing a white t-shirt because I am fearless anyway here's some free CC0 pixel fonts for you not-jam.itch.io/not-jam-font...

Text rendered in bright green over a dark blue-green background, set in an ultrabold monospace pixel font with a sharp, hard-edged look.

It reads:

"A pixel font
by Not Jam

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER A LAZY DOG.

.ttf format
CC0 licence"

Text rendered in bright green over a dark blue-green background, set in a handwritten style pixel font with rounded, uneven shapes.

It reads:

"A pixel font
by Not Jam

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER A LAZY DOG.

.ttf format
CC0 licence"

Text rendered in bright green over a dark blue-green background, set in an old-style serif pixel font.

It reads:

"A pixel font
by Not Jam

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER A LAZY DOG.

.ttf format
CC0 licence"

Text rendered in bright green over a dark blue-green background, set in a highly stylised pixel font which takes clear inspiration from uncial fonts (especially the font used on old Sequential prophet synthesisers).

It reads:

"A pixel font
by Not Jam

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER A LAZY DOG.

.ttf format
CC0 licence"

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 16/07/2026

Saw Evil Dead Burn, and shared my thoughts on The Underscore Not sure it lands everything it tries, but it's got some fantastic performances, effects and is shot really creatively - would love to discuss with anyone who's seen it! theunderscore.xyz/t/the-moviez...

Pixel art portrait of Alyssa from Evil Dead Rise. She has wide, staring eyes and an unnerving smile. She's covered in cuts and blood, not all of it her own, and has messy, unkempt hair. The picture is drawn to look as if she's being viewed through a peephole (that's also blood splattered), reminiscent of a scene from the movie.

The portrait is drawn with a purple-tinted 2-bit palette.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 14/07/2026

the character that this PC belongs to is just learning to draw, so she also has images like this saved to her desktop

A pixel art rendition of a computer screen, on which a hand-drawn picture of a dinosaur is displayed. It's of dubious quality, with some messy, uneven line work, but it's got plenty of character. The scene is rendered in neon pink, purple and black with vibrant, pale blue highlights. It's been subjected to a fairly extreme fake CRT filter

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 14/07/2026

until today there was a distinct lack of dinosaurs in my game so I added this image file to one of the computers you find in world I am sorry it took me so long, dinosaurs should have been a priority from the start

screenshot from a pixel art game. It shows a static image of a non-specific large theropod dinosaur, rendered within a fake computer display with icons to minimise, maximise and close the image viewer. The scene is rendered in neon pink, purple and black with vibrant, pale blue highlights. It's been subjected to a fairly extreme fake CRT filter

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 13/07/2026

Got an unexpected day off tomorrow so I'm having a cheeky beer then I'm going to go to bed and sleep for at least 24 hours if you'd like to make me even happier you could play my latest (free) game while I'm zonked and make number go more bigger not-jam.itch.io/battery-acid...

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