Pixel art game scales??

[fitness23]

Hi,

I would like to build a pixel art game and I have identified that I would like the original size of the canvas to be 400px (width) x 225px (height). Of course I need to scale this up to show that it is indeed pixel art but which option do I take:

1) Upscale the graphics via image editing software to be at a bigger scale or...

2) Just make Phaser scale the canvas directly from the original 400px x 225px canvas and turn off anti-alias. This sounds like the most obvious choice.

Thanks

[Arcanorum]

The answer that looks like the right one is usually the right one. A big advantage of pixel art is tiny file sizes, which you would lose if you scaled up the source images.