Pixel Love Games

Pixel Love refers to a series of flash games Nitrome has found around the web that they thought were well-made, and promoted on their website.

History
Pixel Love was first started on May 14 of 2012 in a blog post written by Mat Annal. In the blog post, Mat featured the game Super Puzzle Platformer, and stated that Nitrome would be releasing new Pixel Love games "from time to time" but that the ultimate fate of the Pixel Love section would be determined by the fans' reception. He also stated that if many fans liked the section, they would attempt to put up a new Pixel Love every week. The fan reception to Pixel Love was generally positive, and as promised Nitrome began featuring games in their Pixel Love blog posts on a weekly basis, with but a few exceptions.

Layout
All Pixel Love games that Nitrome featured could be played within Nitrome's website. Clicking on a game link would take the player to a special games page, which was decorated with a unique skin. However, this part of their site was not updated for two whole years, and contained many missing links from the navigation panel, and had advertisements in the locations they were before being updated.

Website
On July 25 2014, Nitrome completely renovated all aspects of Pixel Love. It was given its own sub-site, pixellovegames.com, which is where all Pixel Love games are now played. The site also contains a complete list of all the Pixel love games to be featured, and the list can be ordered by most recently added, most played, and most hearted. With the site also came the ability to heart games and share games via link or social media sites, darken the entire site except for the game (dubbed "dimming the lights"), and send suggestions to Nitrome of Pixel Love games through e-mail. Also, game developers were given the ability to upload their games directly to the site for Nitrome to review.

Banner
With the very first Pixel Love blog post came a unique banner to go with it. The banner came had an image accompanied by the Pixel Love logo, of grey and pink pixel text with a heart as the "o" in Love. With the massive update Nitrome also updated the logo by removing the background image and replacing it with a pattern similar to what was used on the old game page.

Games featured
A complete list of games by date that have been featured in Pixel Love can be found here.