I'd prefer not to make this an argument about what is "real" pixel art and what isn't. I'll just say that Zeboyd is a 2 person team, and we do well enough to keep making games as we are. I do all of the visual stuff, detail the character designs, and construct the game worlds. We've been able to make all of our games up to this point in a reasonable amount of time, but we can't expand yet. Art is subjective so all I can promise you is that I'll keep doing my best to improve. If starting at one point and constantly striving to improve means that I'm not a "real" pixel artist, then all I can say is good luck to any other artist out there trying to become "real" at what they do.
Otherwise all I can say is that I appreciate that people do, in fact, care enough to comment on our games, even if it's in some hope that we do better. Personally I try to be my own critic, and find ways to improve my own personal quality but with a heavy emphasis on efficiency. That's a philosophy that we've been running with at Zeboyd since we started, and increasing overhead and costs too quickly often causes indie teams to collapse under their own weight.
