Take a minute to complete our audience survey! Tell us where you stand in the pixel art and game dev community, and how we can improve PGMA!
Pixel Game Maker Awards (PGMA) is a pixel art game development contest for teens and young adults. PGMA is an elimination-style game jam, consisting of four rounds per season. At the end a round, the PGMA community and judges vote on the games. About half the contestants are eliminated each round, until one winner remains!
You must be age 13-21 to participate.
Join as a team of up to 3 total people, or as a solo dev.
You must have some provable experience with the skills you will be competing with.
Seasons are around 4 months long, with breaks between rounds.
Season 9 is on the way! Take in our newest website redesign, being a representation of the many changes and improvements we're implementing for Season 9 of PGMA, which will come out very soon! Disclaimer: the mobile version may still be under construction. Credit goes to EnderPlaySmash for help with the website creation. Additional credit goes to Blitz1998 for the tertiary font.
Pixel Game Maker Awards (PGMA) is a pixel art game development contest for teens and young adults. PGMA is an elimination-style game jam, consisting of four rounds per season. At the end a round, the PGMA community and judges vote on the games. About half the contestants are eliminated each round, until one winner remains!
You must be age 13-21 to participate.
Join as a team of up to 3 total people, or as a solo dev.
You must have some provable experience with the skills you will be competing with.
Seasons are around 4 months long, with breaks between rounds.
Season 9 is on the way! Take in our newest website redesign, being a representation of the many changes and improvements we're implementing for Season 9 of PGMA, which will come out very soon! Disclaimer: the mobile version may still be under construction. Credit goes to EnderPlaySmash for help with the website creation. Additional credit goes to Blitz1998 for the tertiary font.
Take a minute to complete our audience survey! Tell us where you stand in the pixel art and game dev community, and how we can improve PGMA!
Pixel Game Maker Awards (PGMA) is a pixel art game development contest for teens and young adults. PGMA is an elimination-style game jam, consisting of four rounds per season. At the end a round, the PGMA community and judges vote on the games. About half the contestants are eliminated each round, until one winner remains!
You must be age 13-21 to participate.
Join as a team of up to 3 total people, or as a solo dev.
You must have some provable experience with the skills you will be competing with.
Seasons are around 4 months long, with breaks between rounds.
Season 9 is on the way! Take in our newest website redesign, being a representation of the many changes and improvements we're implementing for Season 9 of PGMA, which will come out very soon! Disclaimer: the mobile version may still be under construction. Credit goes to EnderPlaySmash for help with the website creation. Additional credit goes to Blitz1998 for the tertiary font.
PGMA is elimination-style, consisting of 3 rounds within the season! Each round, about half the contestants are eliminated until one winner remains!
Each round lasts 2-3 weeks, depending on the stage. This means it's very important not to overscope (we're not expecting the next Hollow Knight).
All graphics must be pixel art. Other styles (like high-res bitmap art, voxels, or raster art) aren't allowed, though small elements may be exceptions.
No way. Generative AI art or music is not accepted and will result in disqualification.
Your games can be made with whatever engine you want! But they must be shared on Scratch, itch.io, Newgrounds, or GameJolt (web playable with HTML). They must be directly playable through either of those websites.
The public will vote on your games to support you during rounds 1 and 2, on top of separate rankings by the judges! The final round will be up to the judges. After poll voting, judges will separately rank the entries and those will be combined with public votes for a final ranking.
Currently, we're not offering a monetary prize, but winners get recognition and future roles. Our final top 3 placing contestants will be offered to become judges for future seasons, and may be entitled to any future prizes established in the future.
PGMA is elimination-style, consisting of 3 rounds within the season! Each round, about half the contestants are eliminated until one winner remains!
Each round lasts 2-3 weeks, depending on the stage. This means it's very important not to overscope (we're not expecting the next Hollow Knight).
All graphics must be pixel art. Other styles (like high-res bitmap art, voxels, or raster art) aren't allowed, though small elements may be exceptions.
No way. Generative AI art or music is not accepted and will result in disqualification.
Your games can be made with whatever engine you want! But they must be shared on Scratch, itch.io, Newgrounds, or GameJolt (web playable with HTML). They must be directly playable through either of those websites.
The public will vote on your games to support you during rounds 1 and 2, on top of separate rankings by the judges! The final round will be up to the judges. After poll voting, judges will separately rank the entries and those will be combined with public votes for a final ranking.
Currently, we're not offering a monetary prize, but winners get recognition and future roles. Our final top 3 placing contestants will be offered to become judges for future seasons, and may be entitled to any future prizes established in the future.
PGMA is elimination-style, consisting of 3 rounds within the season! Each round, about half the contestants are eliminated until one winner remains!
Each round lasts 2-3 weeks, depending on the stage. This means it's very important not to overscope (we're not expecting the next Hollow Knight).
All graphics must be pixel art. Other styles (like high-res bitmap art, voxels, or raster art) aren't allowed, though small elements may be exceptions.
No way. Generative AI art or music is not accepted and will result in disqualification.
Your games can be made with whatever engine you want! But they must be shared on Scratch, itch.io, Newgrounds, or GameJolt (web playable with HTML). They must be directly playable through either of those websites.
The public will vote on your games to support you during rounds 1 and 2, on top of separate rankings by the judges! The final round will be up to the judges. After poll voting, judges will separately rank the entries and those will be combined with public votes for a final ranking.
Currently, we're not offering a monetary prize, but winners get recognition and future roles. Our final top 3 placing contestants will be offered to become judges for future seasons, and may be entitled to any future prizes established in the future.