POTIONS & PIXELS

Huge thanks to Simon Norman for donating classic consoles, controllers, and electronics to support our game preservation + ArtCade work. 💙🎮 Got old game tech? Donate + help keep gaming history alive. #POTIONSANDPIXELS #GamePreservation #RetroGaming

Huge thanks to everyone who came out for GAME PLAN! 🏙️🎲 Watching people plan, strategize, and shape cities together is why we love bringing games into civic spaces. Thanks to CLT Urban Design Center and our amazing volunteers. 💙🎮 #POTIONSANDPIXELS #GamePlan #CharlotteEvents

🔥 HAPPENING TONIGHT! 🎮🎉 #Games, drinks, and great people. Creators welcome — bring your project, prototype, or idea. 📅 Wednesday, January 28th ⏰ 6–10 PM 📍 Divine Barrel Brewing (@DivineBarrelCLT) 3701 N. Davidson St. – Suite #203 Charlotte, NC 28205 #GameDev #IndieGames

People see the games. They don’t always see this. Rescuing CRT TVs from the waste stream - #GamePreservation one screen at a time. 📺♻️ Huge shoutout to Jan Zytkow, with POTIONS & PIXELS since day zero. #BehindTheScenes work like this makes it all possible. 💙🎮 #RetroGaming

#MAGFest is a reminder of why we love this space so much. So many brilliant indie devs, incredible conversations, and genuinely good humans building games they care about. Feeling grateful, inspired, and very excited for what’s coming next. 💙🎮 #IndieGames #GameCommunity

Why a picture of T-molding on a shelf? Because we were so busy building shelves over the holiday break that we completely forgot to take a photo of the amazing volunteers who showed up and put in serious work! Huge thanks to Xavier, Michael, Kyle, Anthony,& Vinal. 💪🎮

Thank you Bobby Schweizer for donating a whole batch of classic consoles and controllers to our ArtCade project! 🎮✨ These will live inside our ArtCade units so the public can experience classic games exactly the way they were meant to be played!

Thank you Simon Norman, Nick, and Anthony Nguyen for volunteering to help set up the infrastructure that lets us monitor and control our ArtCade units remotely! 🔧🕹️ This work is a big deal — especially as we expand the ArtCade program in 2026. You all are amazing! 💛

Thank you Marcio Pinto for your generous donation to support the work of POTIONS & PIXELS! 🙏💙 Marcio is a huge fan of retro games and our ArtCade units, and we’re excited to put his support directly into expanding that work in the community.

Huge thanks to Brian King and Brandyn Osborne for organizing a fundraising event for POTIONS & PIXELS at the end of 2025! 💙 It means so much that they believe in our mission and put in the work to support it. We’re grateful for you both!

🎲🏙️ GAME PLAN is TONIGHT! City-building board games, community, and fun 🕕 6–9 PM • FREE • All ages 📍 Charlotte Urban Design Center 1507 Camden Rd., Charlotte, NC 28203 No experience needed — just show up and play! #GameNight #BoardGames #CharlotteEvents #CLT #TonightInCLT

Ugly sweaters ✔️ Great community ✔️ Perfect way to close out 2025 ✔️ Thanks to everyone who joined us for our final Game Industry Gathering of the year. We can’t wait to see what we build together in 2026 🎮 Enjoy these legendary ugly sweaters 🎥 #GameCommunity #CharlotteNC

🎉 Join POTIONS & PIXELS and the Charlotte Urban Design Center (@cltgov) for GAME PLAN: A Night of City-Building Board Games! 🏙️🎲 📅 Jan 20 | ⏰ 6–9 PM 📍 Charlotte Urban Design Center 1507 Camden Rd. 👉 RSVP: meetup.com/potions-pixels… #boardgames #gamenight #citybuilding #CLT

🎶 We’re looking back at our final 2025 Game Music Contest winner! 🎶 🎧💫 Congratulations to our 5th Place winner, Nicholas Filippides, with his beautiful track “Sunrise Serenade” for Kingdom Hearts III! 🏆✨ #VideoGameMusic #GameDev #KingdomHearts #KH3 #CharlotteNC #CLTArts

Thanks to everyone in the community who came out to our final Game Industry Gathering of 2025! We had a great time in our ugly sweaters, celebrating what we accomplished together this year and looking ahead to 2026. Thank you all for making this community so special. 💙🎮🎲

🎶 Looking back at our 2025 Game Music Contest winners! 🔥 4th Place: Blacksmith Sundays Track: “The Get Down” (NBA Street Vol. 2) He nailed the vibe of classic street hoops. Give it up! 🏆✨🎧 #GameMusicContest #POTIONSANDPIXELS #VideoGameMusic #NBAStreetVol2 #CharlotteNC

Looking back at our 2025 Game Music Contest winners! 🎶✨ Congrats to EM HENDRIX, who earned 3rd Place with her electrifying Tekken 3 track “Bryan Fury.” ⚡🥉🎮 She brought so much energy, love, & creativity into this song! 🔊🔥 #VGM #VideoGameMusic #GameDev #Tekken3

Get those ugly sweaters ready! It’s our final Game Industry Gathering of 2025! ❄️🕹️ Games, drinks, & great people! 📅 Dec 10 ⏰ 6–10 PM 📍 Divine Barrel Brewing We can’t wait to see your sweaters! #POTIONSANDPIXELS #CLTGaming #CharlotteNC #GameDev #IndieDev #UglySweaterParty

We had so much #IAAPA footage that we had to drop another video. Here’s more of the incredible attractions we explored!

Exciting news! We received a Creative Growth Grant from @cltgov that will help us build more ArtCade units for the community through our new ArtCade Creators Program, where local artists learn carpentry and electrical skills while creating interactive public art. #CLTArts