ORIGINAL PIXEL ART · DRAWN & ANIMATED BY THEO MANIATIS
A universe of hand-drawn, hand-animated 8-bit fighters. 54 characters and counting — each one built frame by frame.
THE ORIGIN
PXL-DRGNS is a love letter to the arcade games I grew up on — Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands — mashed together with a lifelong obsession with comics. Every fighter starts as a sketch and ends up as a pixel.
Nothing here is generated. Every character, every frame, every loop is hand-drawn and hand-animated. It's slow, stubborn work — and that's the whole point.
CHARACTER SELECT
54 FIGHTERS▶ HOVER / TAP TO FIGHT
“It's based on the classic Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands 8-bit arcade games and my love of them — mixed with my love of comics.”
— THEO MANIATIS, PXL-DRGNS INTERVIEW WITH PUBLISH0X