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Nice idea! What are other similar apps that did this? (Assuming you did research). I see bsaul did something similar but he used geolocation as sharing platform…interesting…

And why the restrictive color palette? To create the nostalgic effect of old video games?

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A limited palette is traditional, and pixel art is very traditionalist, as both an art form and a community of artists. That’s not to say there’s no innovation—plenty of—but it’s always with the same body of techniques: palette minimisation, antialiasing, dithering, hardware restrictions, and a large dose of colour theory.

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