Pixel artwork

Produce deliberate native-grid artwork with editable source and exact-size exports for the declared use. Reconstructing a reference is one mode; direct pixel construction from a brief is supported.

Choose the work

Use modes and capabilities to select create, reconstruct, adapt, edit or review and establish available capabilities. Image generation is optional. Honor an explicit image-first requirement; if generation is unavailable, disclose the gap and obtain a route decision before substituting direct construction. A supplied reference or an agreed brief-only route can work without image generation. Missing image observation leaves visual acceptance unverified.

Read review gates for the task's acceptance contract and evidence boundaries. Brief-only creation derives criteria from the brief and declared design choices, without invented image observations.

Inspect an existing asset/source before modifying it. Record essential identity, detail roles, style, permitted adaptations, actual sizes/backgrounds and required consuming actions. Scale this contract to the task. Review mode is read-only unless fixes are requested. Preserve approved unusual styles and accepted versions.

For repeating pixel textures or edge-matched tilesets, read tiling and Wang tiles for construction, validation methods, acceptance baselines, and a controlled probe.

Establish the target

Declare native dimensions, aspect/pixel aspect, palette/alpha limits, minimum readable size, style and any animation/tile/export constraints. Distinguish a platform-inspired style from compatibility with real platform constraints. If claiming real hardware compatibility, verify the requested platform's relevant palette, tile, sprite, memory and display constraints against primary technical documentation; a palette count alone is insufficient.

Establish the artwork's visual role. For a background, judge material readability and competition with the intended foreground at actual viewing scale; more detail or contrast is not automatically better. Preserve accepted alternatives unless the user requests a replacement, and distinguish a different style from an evidenced improvement.