Tux on r/place
You can reach us directly on Discord, Matrix, or Telegram.
If you would like to help us place Tux, we highly recommend you use our Overlay! It's a userscript that runs through a browser extension that will render an image on top of the r/place canvas showing incorrect pixels:
Installation instructions:
- Install the Violentmonkey addon/extension on your browser:
- Firefox-based
- Chromium-based (Opera extension for CWS compatibility)
- Edge
- Install the user script
For troubleshooting regarding the Overlay see here, or ask us directly on Discord / Matrix / Telegram.
If you prefer not to use the Overlay, you can find expanded images with coordinates here: original Tux | new Tux / FOSS
You can propose a fix/modification to the artwork by editing artwork/tux/tux.png and posting a pull request to this repo. After we review it and accept it, the Overlay and other things will get automatically updated.
If you are a member of one of our alliances trying to change your artwork, make a PR with the updated corresponding image in artwork/allies/
To change the anchor point of an artwork, modify the x0,y0 values in the corresponding entry in positions.json.
Our canvas corners:
(20,679) (71,679)
(20,758) (71,758)
Ideally we would take up the entire 2000x1000 canvas for ourselves, but that would make other communities sad... And it's also impossible. We would create 3 progressively larger pixel arts (a 50x50, a 75x75 and a 100x100 version) for Tux and Distro/DE. We would draw the appropriate one in r/place, based on territory gained.
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