What Is The Pixel Guys Website?

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The Pixel Guys website at pixelguys.github.io is the home page for The Pixel Guys, a group whose featured project is Cubyz. It functions as a project hub: a place that lists the team's projects and points visitors to open-source releases, most of which are available on GitHub. It is not a store, a paid service, or a product with pricing — the site itself presents no pricing signals, and the material available describes projects and their source code rather than anything for sale.

Who runs the site

The site is published by a group calling itself The Pixel Guys. The page title is "The Pixel Guys - Home," and the site's own name in its metadata is "Welcome to Cubyz," which tells you the two are closely tied: Cubyz is the project the home page leads with, and The Pixel Guys is the identity behind it.

What you can find there

The site is organized around a small set of sections rather than a large content library:

  • Home — the landing page, which introduces the group and its main project, Cubyz.
  • Projects — a listing of what the team is working on.
  • Open-Source — the section that explains where the code lives.

The Open-Source section states plainly that most projects are available at the group's GitHub page. So if your goal is to read, download, or contribute to code, GitHub is the destination the site itself directs you to, not a separate download page on the site.

Why the GitHub link matters

The site's own text anticipates one common objection: not wanting to use GitHub because of Microsoft's ownership of it. The page's answer, attributed to a commenter from 2019, is essentially that this isn't a good enough reason to avoid the projects. Whatever you think of that argument, the practical takeaway is the same — the open-source releases are hosted on GitHub, so that is where you go to get them.

What the site is not

It helps to be clear about the boundaries, because the name and structure can suggest more than exists:

You might expect What the site actually is
A store or paid product A project hub with no pricing signals
A hosted service you sign up for A set of links, mostly to GitHub
A large content site A few sections: Home, Projects, Open-Source
A company's commercial homepage A group's page for its projects and source code

How to use it

If you arrived looking for Cubyz or the team's other work, start at the home page, then use the Projects section to see what exists and the Open-Source section to reach the GitHub repositories. If you only care about the code, you can skip straight to GitHub, since that is where the site sends you anyway. If you were expecting to buy something or create an account, this isn't that kind of site — there is nothing in the available material indicating payments, subscriptions, or login requirements.