Not Jam

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I make games and fonts and music Find me here: http://not-jam.itch.io https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ehj_uCbZy8gZ1c6MS8VTVfUCYEvqMllE

pixel art scene from an unreleased survival horror game. A character wearing her hair up in a ponytail stands in front of a door labelled "12". It's surrounded by tentacles, curling through and around the frame. The corridor in which the character stands is heavily damaged, with holes in the walls and floorboards. The scene is drawn with a green 2-bit palette reminiscent of the Game Boy.
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"
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.
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
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
trailer for the tiny game battery acid boy goes trampolining. In it, the titular battery acid boy, a tiny 1-bit sprite bounces on a trampoline, interspersed with jump cuts to strange, seemingly unrelated scenes including clouds, a planet, a desert landscape and the game's title. Everything is rendered in black and white pixel art.
trailer for the tiny game battery acid boy goes trampolining. In it, the titular battery acid boy, a tiny 1-bit sprite bounces on a trampoline, interspersed with jump cuts to strange, seemingly unrelated scenes including clouds, a planet, a desert landscape and the game's title. Everything is rendered in black and white pixel art.
screenshot from an unreleased survival horror pixel art game. A character with her hair up in a bun stands before a large sinkhole in the center of an apartment building corridor. Behind her is a closed door with the number 13 and a portrait, hung crooked on the wall. The scene is drawn with a blue-purple 2-bit palette, and overlaid with a dot-matrix style effect.
a pair of pixel art portraits with matched sprites. On top is a pumpkin headed figure with a wide, evil grin and either demin overalls or a leather apron; it's not entirely clear which at this resolution. Beneath is a strange goblin-vampire cross, wearing a heavy cloak that it keeps wrapped tight around its body.
Screenshot from an unreleased pixel art game. It displays a CD-rw in a jewel case, with the word "run" written on it in sharpie. Descriptive text at the bottom of the image describes this. The scene is rendered in a purple-ish 2-bit palette, and overlaid with a dot-matrix style effect
trailer for the tiny game battery acid boy goes trampolining. In it, the titular battery acid boy, a tiny 1-bit sprite bounces on a trampoline, interspersed with jump cuts to strange, seemingly unrelated scenes including clouds, a planet, a desert landscape and the game's title. Everything is rendered in black and white pixel art.
trailer for the tiny game battery acid boy goes trampolining. In it, the titular battery acid boy, a tiny 1-bit sprite bounces on a trampoline, interspersed with jump cuts to strange, seemingly unrelated scenes including clouds, a planet, a desert landscape and the game's title. Everything is rendered in black and white pixel art.
Screenshot of the Godot docs. It reads: "Note: Arrays are always passed by reference. To get a copy of an array that can be modified independently of the original array, use duplicate()."
A bald, cloaked figure stands on a clifftop above the clouds. They stare directly at a floating, mustachioed figure wearing a crisp white shirt with thin purple tie and round glasses. The floating figure glares at the cloaked one, eyes slightly narrowed in anger, instructing them to "Read the docs!". The cloaked figure replies "no"
trailer for the tiny game battery acid boy goes trampolining. In it, the titular battery acid boy, a tiny 1-bit sprite bounces on a trampoline, interspersed with jump cuts to strange, seemingly unrelated scenes including clouds, a planet, a desert landscape and the game's title. Everything is rendered in black and white pixel art.
trailer for the tiny game battery acid boy goes trampolining. In it, the titular battery acid boy, a tiny 1-bit sprite bounces on a trampoline, interspersed with jump cuts to strange, seemingly unrelated scenes including clouds, a planet, a desert landscape and the game's title. Everything is rendered in black and white pixel art.
Textmode depiction of Carl Brutananadilewski. He glares directly at the camera, bald head glistening in the light. He wears a white vest and gold chain, and has a bushy, powerful moustache.
pixel art depiction of a cloaked figure, standing in front of a box car. It's drawn with a purple-ish 2-bit palette, using repeating tiles to make up the background at Game Boy resolution. Text at the bottom reads "The car is broken", because it is.
Screen recording of the trailer to Battery Acid Boy 2, a pixel art bullet hell game. It consists of a series of gameplay clips, each featuring a tiny humanoid sprite representing the player running and dashing around the screen, dodging or deflecting projectiles and occasionally firing a laser beam at enemies. Enemies are a mix of creatures, some humanoid and some insectoid, whilst others are more abstract shapes. Each clip utilises a different four-colour palette. At the end of the trailer, after a screen wipe, the game's title appears onscreen.
Screen recording of the trailer to Battery Acid Boy 2, a pixel art bullet hell game. It consists of a series of gameplay clips, each featuring a tiny humanoid sprite representing the player running and dashing around the screen, dodging or deflecting projectiles and occasionally firing a laser beam at enemies. Enemies are a mix of creatures, some humanoid and some insectoid, whilst others are more abstract shapes. Each clip utilises a different four-colour palette. At the end of the trailer, after a screen wipe, the game's title appears onscreen.
Text set in bright green on a navy background. 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" It's set in a monospace pixel font with 8x8px letters (including blank space), with short ascenders and no descenders. It has a chunky feel, with 2px width to all lines.
A mech wearing a large back banner which reads "itch.io is back!". It has a huge green fist for a left hand, and a chainsaw for the right. It wears a wide, beaming grin. It's drawn with a 2 bit palette in a pixel art style
A tiny pixel art sprite of ET. It's rendered with just linework, transparency and a single skin colour on a white background.
aqua teen hunger force, in a pixel art style using the Pico 8 palette. Characters include Frylock, Meatwad, Shake, Carl, Err, Igniknokt, Oglethorpe and Emory
Pixel art depiction of an espresso machine. It's brewing ethiopian yirgacheffe with a 1:2 ratio. Queued orders include an espresso, a latte and a cappuccino with chocolate
koffing, fearow, bellsprout and blastoise, rendered in an ultra-low resolution pixel art style. Each features strong black linework, often using colours that spill outside of the lines - less as anti-aliasing and more to create big, blocky shapes.
rapidash, victreebel, raichu and butterfree, rendered in an ultra-low resolution pixel art style. Each features strong black linework, often using colours that spill outside of the lines - less as anti-aliasing and more to create big, blocky shapes.
rapidash, victreebel, raichu and butterfree, rendered in an ultra-low resolution pixel art style. Each features strong black linework, often using colours that spill outside of the lines - less as anti-aliasing and more to create big, blocky shapes.
pixel art picture of a chemex coffee brewer. It is filled with a beautiful red-brown coffee, with the characteristically gorgeous effect that light has on coffee within a chemex.
Pixel art picture of Space Ghost. He stands stoically, and though we can't see his face at this low resolution it would be safe to assume he's wearing his usual dumb fuck expression. His cloak billows in the wind.
Screen recording of the trailer to Battery Acid Boy 2, a pixel art bullet hell game. It consists of a series of gameplay clips, each featuring a tiny humanoid sprite representing the player running and dashing around the screen, dodging or deflecting projectiles and occasionally firing a laser beam at enemies. Enemies are a mix of creatures, some humanoid and some insectoid, whilst others are more abstract shapes. Each clip utilises a different four-colour palette. At the end of the trailer, after a screen wipe, the game's title appears onscreen.
Screen recording of the trailer to Battery Acid Boy 2, a pixel art bullet hell game. It consists of a series of gameplay clips, each featuring a tiny humanoid sprite representing the player running and dashing around the screen, dodging or deflecting projectiles and occasionally firing a laser beam at enemies. Enemies are a mix of creatures, some humanoid and some insectoid, whilst others are more abstract shapes. Each clip utilises a different four-colour palette. At the end of the trailer, after a screen wipe, the game's title appears onscreen.
Text set in Not Jam Novel 16 in vibrant green on a navy background. It contains glyphs from the Latin extended and supplemental unicode character sets.
Demo text for the pixel font Not Jam Novel 13, a serif pixel font designed with a focus on legibility. It's set in vibrant green on a navy blue background. The text used is an excerpt from Henry James' The Turn of the Screw.
A pixel art scene, in which a character with a ponytail and shorts stands in the rain beneath a glowing street light. She looks directly ahead at a floating, spinning Game Boy cartridge, surrounded by a ring of particles. She stands atop a floating platform. The scene is rendered with a blue-orange 2-bit palette. A selection of chiptune music with varying energies and vibes plays whilst the video repeats.
A pixel art scene, in which a character with a ponytail and shorts stands in the rain beneath a glowing street light. She looks directly ahead at a floating, spinning Game Boy cartridge, surrounded by a ring of particles. She stands atop a floating platform. The scene is rendered with a blue-orange 2-bit palette. A selection of chiptune music with varying energies and vibes plays whilst the video repeats.
pixel art depiction of a hunting spider with bright orange pigmentation across its cephalothorax and abdomen, contrasting with more neutral brown-coloured legs. It has a colourful pattern atop its abdomen. It looks directly into the camera at the viewer.
Pixel art scene in which a character with hair tied back in a ponytail sits in front of a bluescreened desktop computer. Rain pours outside the window. To her right is a kitchenette, in which can be seen an aeropress, kettle and cat. Around the edges of the screen, UI elements give the impression of some kind of game about game dev, although the players list of actions to take has been replaced by just the word "panic", repeated over and over. The scene is drawn almost entirely in a slightly muted 1-bit palette, with the exception of the glow from the bluescreen.
A short promotional video for various game projects by Not Jam. In order, these consist of: • A top-down survival horror with a strange, mutated creature. It’s stopped in its tracks by a last minute gunshot from the player, before roaring its defiance as it emits a powerful area of effect attack • A bullet hell game featuring strange, insectoid enemies and a teeny-tiny player sprite • A side-scrolling climbing game with an oddly shaped robot, swinging around the screen on really long arms. • A strange coin-flipping game, displayed on a screen in a low-poly 3d environment. It has a look reminiscent of Ceefax • A side-scrolling platformer with pouring rain and streetlights, in which a character with a ponytail idles, looking at a floating game cartridge • A cutscene, in which the camera slowly pans up from a polaroid photograph to reveal an apartment building. Rain pours, and lightning flashes. All scenes but the Ceefax-like coin-flipping game are rendered in various pixel art styles, with generally very low colour counts. Some are overlaid with CRT or dot-matrix shaders, some are clean pixels. Throughout, chiptune music plays.
A short promotional video for various game projects by Not Jam.
White text on a black background, set in a serif (kind of) pixel font with a 13 pixel height. The font is fairly narrow and condensed but still legible, with each letter aiming to have a distinct shape for ease of reading. Serifs are often omitted in favour of more consistent spacing within the pixel grid. The text used is the opening paragraph of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and reads: " No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone."
Pixel art depiction of a mech. It wears an enormous back banner that reads "i hate it here". It has a chainsaw in place of its right arm, and a large fist on its left. It wears an incongruously cheerful expression.
Introductory cutscene to a pixel art game. A character with shoulder-length hair stands in the rain in the centre of the screen, facing directly into the camera. We cut to a close-up shot of her hand, holding a Polaroid photograph of herself and another character stood in front of a door, labelled in pen “miss you”. The camera pans up to reveal building with glass double doors and a keypad for entry. Lightning flashes repeatedly as the scene plays out. The scene is drawn with a 2-bit green palette, and overlaid with a dot-matrix style shader for an effect reminiscent of the original Game Boy.
Introductory cutscene to a pixel art game. A character with shoulder-length hair stands in the rain in the centre of the screen, facing directly into the camera. We cut to a close-up shot of her hand, holding a Polaroid photograph of herself and another character stood in front of a door, labelled in pen “miss you”. The camera pans up to reveal building with glass double doors and a keypad for entry. Lightning flashes repeatedly as the scene plays out. The scene is drawn with a 2-bit green palette, and overlaid with a dot-matrix style shader for an effect reminiscent of the original Game Boy.
Screenshot from a game boy styled horror game. A menu interface showing a large controller inspired by SNES/NES controllers is visible, labelled in-game as GAME D-VICE. Various buttons indicate which keys are mapped to which function.
Screen recording of an untitled, unreleased game boy styled horror game. It shows an old-fashioned computer interface, with a power button at the bottom and a large, circular icon in the center. The player slowly moves the cursor to the center of the icon, before clicking, opening a menu. This initially shows a page for graphics settings with options to set palette, shader mode and fullscreen, before the user navigates to a "play" tab and selects the first save slot. The screen is rendered with a blue-purple 2-bit palette and overlaid with a dot-matrix style shader.
Screen recording of an untitled, unreleased game boy styled horror game. It shows an old-fashioned computer interface, with a power button at the bottom and a large, circular icon in the center. The player slowly moves the cursor to the center of the icon, before clicking, opening a menu. This initially shows a page for graphics settings with options to set palette, shader mode and fullscreen, before the user navigates to a "play" tab and selects the first save slot. The screen is rendered with a blue-purple 2-bit palette and overlaid with a dot-matrix style shader.
Pixel art image, in which a frightening looking figure with long black hair and wide staring eyes looks directly at the viewer. She has a large cut on her forehead and blood pouring from her mouth. Text around the image in a scratchy, handwritten font reads "Won't you open the door? I just want to talk about fonts". The scene is drawn with a 2-bit palette with a purple hue.
screen recording from the game Strip 2048 - a pixel art porn game made in protest at increasing online censorship in the UK. Two characters are shown alternately in various states of undress on the right of the screen, whilst on the left gameplay is shown with the player shifting and merging various sex toys in a square grid.
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.
pixel art depiction of a mini-safe. In place of a combination lock is some kind of mesh-covered object - it's unclear at this resolution what it's supposed to represent. A vignette is applied across the borders of the scene with a dithered pattern. The scene is drawn in a green 2-bit palette and overlaid with a dot-matrix style effect.
A pixel art scene, featuring a character sat hunched over in front of a computer screen. Various UI elements give hints that they're working on an entry to a game jam - they appear to be debugging code in the early hours of the morning. A kitchenette is visible on the right, with an aeropress steeping and cat sat on the counter. On the left, rain can be seen falling through a window. The scene is rendered mostly with a 1-bit palette, but with a blue highlight over the computer's screen.
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.
textmode portrait of Carl Brutananadilewski. He glares angrily into the camera. He's bald, with a shiny head and thick black mustache. He wears white vest and gold chain.
Scene from an unreleased pixel art game. A torn section of paper lies on a section of paving, with puddles visible at the edges of the screen. Rain falls, spreading ripples through the puddles. The scene is rendered with a 2-bit blue-purple palette, overlaid with a shader emulating the look of a dot-matrix screen.
Screen recording of an unreleased pixel art indie game. A character with a ponytail stands before some kind of shrine surrounded by flickering candles. On their left a book is seated on a pedestal. The scene is rendered with a neon pink and purple 2-bit palette, and overlaid with a dot-matrix style effect.
Pixel art homage to Neil banging out the tunes. A highly stylised rat is seen standing before a musical instrument (barely recognisable at this resolution, admittedly), as though performing on it. The rat wears a beaming expression. The musical instrument has several keys of different colours, resembling a child's toy.
Screen recording of Space Generator - a free browser-based tool which allows users to create scrolling backgrounds featuring stars and nebulae. The user navigates presets and various settings, with the content of the screen updating accordingly.
Venomoth, rapidash, raticate and victribell, rendered in a particularly low-resolution pixel art style. Each is rendered with a slightly different style, but all make use of edges squared off with colour - the effect is somewhere in between anti-aliasing and colouring outside of the lines.