PixelJAM Games
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PixelJam Games is an independent video game studio. One of their games, Gamma Bros., was nominated for "Best Web Browser Game" at the 2007 Independent Games Festival
Independent Games Festival
The Independent Games Festival is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference, the largest annual gathering of the indie video game industry. It was founded in 1998 to assist and inspire innovation in video game development and to recognize the best independent video game developers...

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Games

  • Dino Run SE: An improved, extended version of Dino Run for purchase & download on Mac, PC, & Linux. See Dino Run description below.
  • Dino Run
    Dino Run
    Dino Run is an independent Flash game created by PixelJAM and XGen Studios, in which the player steers a dinosaur through increasingly dangerous side-scrolling landscapes to escape an impending wall of doom. The game uses simple pixel art and 8-bit sound to replicate the style of 1980s arcade games...

    : an action game in which the player controls a dinosaur
    Dinosaur
    Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

     running across various terrains, trying to avoid the dinosaur apocalypse. Which can be played here
  • Gamma Bros: an arcade style shooter ( there is a sequel that pixeljam is currently working on )
  • Ratmaze: a game in which you play as a rat
    Rat
    Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea. "True rats" are members of the genus Rattus, the most important of which to humans are the black rat, Rattus rattus, and the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus...

     who is running around a maze racing to collect cheese
    Cheese
    Cheese is a generic term for a diverse group of milk-based food products. Cheese is produced throughout the world in wide-ranging flavors, textures, and forms....

  • Ratmaze 2: another game with being a sequel and having the same concept as Ratmaze.
  • Dino Run: Marathon of Doom: NOT a sequel to Dino Run., that is a challenge game where the player controls a raptor to see how long he or she can run away from the apocalypse before becoming extict ( It is only been found at bored.com and mochigames.com so far)
  • Corporate Climber, Platformer Action. Make your way up the corporate ladder from the Janitor's closet to CEO of the corporation.. and beyond!
  • Mountain Maniac: Mountain Man goes crazy and needs to smash everything! an action game made for Adult Swim|adultswim.com
  • Mountain Maniac Xmas: A updated & improved holiday themed sequel to Mountain Maniac. Mountain Maniac needs to get revenge on Santa. Also for Adult Swim.
  • Cream Wolf: Werewolf Ice Cream Truck Driver fattens kids up and eats them on the full moon while avoiding cops, animal control and health inspectors. Collaboration with Mark Essen (Messhof). Made for Adult Swim.
  • Pizza City!: a free-roaming game made for adultswim.com
    Adult Swim
    Adult Swim is an adult-oriented Cable network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network from 9:00 pm until 6:00 am ET/PT in the United States, and broadcasts in countries such as Australia and New Zealand...

  • Sausage Factory, a puzzle/rhythm game made for Adult Swim|adultswim.com
  • Hipster Kickball: Kickball with a twist. Hipsters vs. Hippies battle it out on the kickball field.
  • Turbo Granny, a driving game where you play as a grandma for Adult Swim|adultswim.com
  • Cookie Party 2: Platformer adventure game created for the Sarah Silverman Program on Comedy Central's web site. Control a selection of freaky living cookies to collect chocolate chips in different worlds & encounter the cast of the show (with actual voice acting from the cast).

Pixeljam Music Releases


Games in progress and planned for the future

  • Glorkian Warrior
  • Gamma Bros 2
  • O.R.B.
  • Gama Bros 1.1 (co-op, updated version of Gamma Bros for WiiWare & mobile devices.
  • SnowBall
  • Dino Run iPhone/iPad
  • Dino Run 2
  • Ratmaze 3
  • Many More..


Employees

  • Richard Grillotti (art, animation, design)
  • Miles Tilmann (programming, production, music/sfx production, design)

Awesome people Pixeljam works with

  • Mark DeNardo (music, sound effects)
  • Martín Sebastián Wain (programming)
  • Graham Lackey (art, animation)
  • Jeffrey Nielson (art, animation)
  • John Davies/Datasette (Music)
  • Nate Pacyga (programming, project manager)
  • Orlando Martinez (programming)
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