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God Save the Pixel: The Sixteen Color Collection
"...God Save the Pixel: The 16 Color Collection and Blood Sweat and Pixels:..."

Aug. 16, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Twisted Pixel Fans Unite!
Local game developer looking for video-shoot extras
"...what we know about the wacky kids at Twisted Pixel, we expect antics, tomfoolery, and no shortage of shenanigans...."

Jan. 26, 2011 Screens Post by James Renovitch

10 Minutes of Comic Jumper
Twisted Pixel reveals gameplay for upcoming release
"...CEO of local game developer Twisted Pixel – and recent Austin Chronicle cover story subject –..."

March 14, 2010 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Get ’Sploded Now
All the gaming fun and only half the price!
"...this theory – created by local game developer Twisted Pixel and downloadable from Xbox Live Arcade – is easily..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Screens Post by James Renovitch

More Gifts for Gamers
Three giftable video games for the younger set
"...Blob, WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2010, and Axel & Pixel. All three have kid appeal but only two might..."

Nov. 19, 2009 Screens Post by James Renovitch

In Play
Austin indie developer Twisted Pixel clone-bombed by a gaming giant
"...Live release 'Splosion Man, from Austin indie developer Twisted Pixel (see "Games People Play," Feb. 19, 2010). But once..."

Jan. 21, 2011 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Games People Play
Casual gaming's rise opens the doors for players and developers
"...similarly to the way Michael Wilford's development studio, Twisted Pixel, offers up titles to Microsoft. This newfangled path to..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

In Play
Twisted Pixel's 'Splosion Man passes the torch in attention-deficit anarchy to the Ms.
"...Ms. 'Splosion ManTwisted Pixel Games Xbox 360, 800 Microsoft Points ($10)..."

July 29, 2011 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Win, Lose, or Draw
What 16 Color offers is an incredibly user-friendly template for people interested in making short (15 seconds), Web-based animations. His press release says it best: "Alan Watts dreams of ways to help people procrastinate."
"...utterly simplistic ease of use and the resulting heavily pixelated cartoons that bloom forth. All of this, of course,..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Increments of Destruction
Chris Jordan's 'Running the Numbers' at Austin Museum of Art
"...cropped them all so they were exactly the same pixel size, so they'd fit together with no white space..."

July 2, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top 10 Local Video Games
Keep your controllers, keyboards, and VR rigs busy with these titles
"...8) WILSON'S HEART (TWISTED PIXEL) Black and white is a bold decision for virtual..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Local Gaming Newsbites
New releases, future games, and different platforms
"...The slightly imbalanced team of Twisted Pixel might be busy promoting their upcoming title, LocoCycle, but..."

April 1, 2013 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Handicapping the Holidays
We narrow the field for the gamer on your gift list
"...Dance Central 2Xbox 360 Harmonix $50 GunstringerXbox 360 Twisted Pixel $40..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Short Cuts
"...(showtimes 8 & 10:30pm), has a fun-sounding program called Pixel Visions scheduled for Nov. 10. The program is a..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Artist Calder Kamin Envisions "A World Without Waste"
With animals crafted from plastic bags, the Austin native turns our eyes to nature
"...AC: Speaking of which, is your pooch Pixel more of a model or a muse?..."

July 2, 2021 Arts Feature by Barbara Purcell

Top 10 Local Video Games
From battlegrounds to the bathroom, here are our favorite Austin games
"...lovely home that looks like something out of a pixelated Wes Anderson movie – if it weren't for the..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Austin Game Devs Shine at E3
Local studios show their wares at the video game megaconvention
"...Wilson's Heart Twisted Pixel..."

June 20, 2016 Screens Post by Tucker Whatley

SXSW Gaming Awards Finalists Announced
Mix of blockbusters and indie faves top the list of noms
"...Mindfield Games Pinstripe – Atmos Games Radical Rebels – Pixel Pushers Union 512 Ray's the Dead – Ragtag Studio..."

Jan. 26, 2016 Screens Post by Tucker Whatley

"Shawn Smith: Predators, Prey, and Pixels" at grayDUCK Gallery
The artist pushes past the simplicity of creating pixelated sculptures of wildlife
"...if it means continually crafting the same sort of pixelated-looking sculptures of wildlife from blocks of dyed wood day..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Arts Review by Seth Orion Schwaiger

Game On
It's all fun and games at this indie developer showcase
"...Twisted Pixel isn't indie anymore since making their relationship with Microsoft..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Game Changer
How Austin's indie gaming scene got cooking as Juegos Rancheros
"...at Juegos Rancheros have included local developers like Twisted Pixel, which showed off its motion-sensor-controlled game Gunstringer, and Tiger..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Players' Guide
Wiley Wiggins wants to show you his Thunderbeam; indie game developer Adam Saltsman gets an unwelcome Taiwanese clone; and more
"...the flak Capcom got for mimicking local developer Twisted Pixel's 'Splosion Man, you'd think clone developers would know to..."

May 20, 2011 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Massively Multiplayer Partying
SXSW ScreenBurn and the Chronicle host Game On Austin
"...Austin's bigger indie developers, Red Fly Studio and Twisted Pixel Games, return to Mohawk to show off their latest..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Burn After Reading
ScreenBurn at SXSW Arcade: totally free, totally open to public
"...Massive Black and Into the Pixel do their part to establish design in video games..."

March 5, 2010 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Speed Racer
The Wachowski brothers' hyperbolic film is supersaturated with outrageously eye-popping visuals, but there's nary an honest emotion in sight.
"...characters into an instantly recognizable environment suffused in every pixel with honest-to-goodness storytelling – and then proceeds to make..."

May 9, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wish List
Give 'Til It Helps, Part 2
"...Digital camera (5 pixel or higher)..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Features Feature

Short Cuts
How to purchase a SXSW Film 2001 screening pass, and other news and events of interest to local filmmakers.
"...to [email protected]… Wondering what happened to former Austinite and Pixel Perfect honcho Chip Mosher? Yeah, me too. Mosher, who..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Blood Sweat and Pixels: The Adult Movies of Sixteen Color
"...God Save the Pixel: The 16 Color Collection and Blood Sweat and Pixels:..."

Aug. 16, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Infinite Possibilities in Eno, the Generative Documentary
Director Gary Hustwit lets his biography of Brian Eno make itself
"...scenes, like one of the film’s fixtures: an opening “pixel dream that we imagined the system would be dreaming.”..."

July 17, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Making the Flowers Bloom in Encanto
Austinite Jay Jackson talks about Disney's latest animated blossom
"...and graphics behind her, each flower is like a pixel. ... That was more collaboration, where Effects handled the..."

Nov. 24, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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