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Pixel Arcade

A pixel runner in a sun-bleached desert, a near miss, a CLOSE CALL! tag and an arcade end card.

1:1Medium pace7splayfulnostalgictense

Square 8-bit gameplay style for indie games, playful launches and challenges. Box-shadow pixel sprites on a warm desert with stepped parallax ridges, a two-frame run cycle, motion snapped to an 8px grid, a red CLOSE CALL! tag on the near miss, a ticking score HUD, and a white flash into a chunky pixel end card with a blinking PRESS START.

Use this style

With Frame Jam installed, press Use this style in the local gallery, or just ask your agent:

Make a video with the Frame Jam style "pixel-arcade" and open it for review.

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Palette

sky#f3ead8

sand#efe6d2

farRidge#d6c2a2

nearRidge#bba07c

sun#f6c76b

ink#1a1410

red#e23d3d

blue#2f6fe0

paper#fff8ec

Type

Display: Press Start 2P 400Title 76px with a hard 6px drop shadow; HUD and tags 26–30px
Body: Press Start 2P 400End-card details 26px, line-height 1.7

Motion

Scroll: none (snapped to 8px)
Jump: power2.out / power2.in (snapped to 8px)
Pop: steps(3)
Card: steps(6)
Blink: steps(1)
Average shot: 3.5s

One continuous gameplay shot (~5s) with two obstacles, then the end card. The run cycle flips every 0.14s.

Transitions and text

white flash (0.06s) into the end card
end card drops in on 6 discrete steps
score counts up every frame and jumps +500 on the near miss
CLOSE CALL! tag pops on steps(3), floats up on steps(5)
PRESS START blinks with steps(1) yoyo

Style guide your agent follows

Draw sprites with a single element and a box-shadow per pixel (9–14px pixels); no images.
Snap every moving x/y to an 8px grid with a GSAP modifiers function so motion feels like hardware.
Use stepped column ridges at two depths for parallax (far moves ~40% of the ground speed).
Two-frame run cycle toggled with visibility every 0.14s; jumps are power2 up/down, snapped.
Only stepped eases for UI (steps(1–6)); never smooth fades except the white flash.
HUD in Press Start 2P: SCORE left, HI right. End on a paper card with a hard 16px shadow, red title, real details (where to play, platforms) and a blinking PRESS START.