POSTED BY

Brandon Boyer

AT 10:29 AM
Wednesday May 6, 2009

ArtRetro

Plagued: jalonso's retro-meets-Bosch faux Game Boy game

plagued.gifNearly every entry in the latest weekly-challenge from artist-forum PixelJoint (the site housing the previously linked Katamari meets Colossus) -- which celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Game Boy with by restricting participants to the original GB's four-color palette -- has something to offer, but jalonso's Plagued seems the clear shoe-in.

The faux-game's a cute RPG based on Hieronymus Bosch's renowned triptych 'Garden of Earthly Delights' (you can see the carved out man battle card at middle-left) -- as ripe and perfectly surreal a world for games to visit as any I've ever seen.

See more of jalonso's work via his bugpixel blog, and create a PixelJoint account to see all 50+ entries, which don't necessarily come up in the accompanying forum thread.

CHALLENGE: Game Boy Turns 20 [PixelJoint, bugpixel blog, via digitaltools]

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