Don't forget the Community Pixel Art Competition is still open! Submit your very own pixel art for the chance to be featured in the upcoming Community 4 book!
Competition information is available here or by clicking the Trophy button in the main menu!
Coloring Pixels V1.17.5 Patch Notes
Bug Fixes and Misc
Added support for the Retro Book
Announcing the Retro DLC
Announcing the Retro Book DLC
This Retro Book brings 20 new images to Coloring Pixels, each image depicts items or icons that represent the old-school cool retro history!
A look into the cool, vintage, not-so-long-ago, past!
Available for the price of $0.99, £0.79, (or your regional equivalent). The pack will release on the 10th of September at 20:00 UTC/12:00 PST.
For a chance to win this DLC for FREE, join our Discord and enter the competition!
Community Input
This book was voted for by our Patreons and so we want to say a massive thank you to those who go the extra mile to support us!
For more info on our Patreon, check out our Discord or Website.
Coloring Pixels Turns 3 Years Old!
Yet Another Year!
The 17th of August marks 3 whole years since the launch of Coloring Pixels! The continued support and growth of this community truly surpass anything we could have wished for and we really cannot thank all of you enough for sticking with us.
It has been such an important year for us here as ToastieLabs! Since the last anniversary, as a result of speeding up our release schedule, we have managed to add 12 additional DLC books to Coloring Pixels! From Marine Life to the most recent Landmarks 2 book! That's 240 new levels, not to mention a couple of additional free Bonus Book images!
We have no plans to stop supporting our community and aim to make another year of DLC, along with some requested feature updates from you, our community.
To celebrate this momentous milestone: We have added our largest free bonus image to Coloring Pixels, we are hosting the 4th annual pixel art competition, and ALL available ToastieLabs games and DLC on Steam will be 20% off all week long!
One Year as a Full-Time Games Studio
As we announced last year, the 1st September marks 1 whole year for both of us working at ToastieLabs full-time!
This was a very scary but exciting step for both of us to take. The growth of the team changing to 2 full-time employees meant we have been able to offer so much more than we could before!
Most of the Coloring Pixels DLC work was handed over to Lee from the get-go, which means we have been able to speed up our DLC release schedule from every 5 weeks to a new DLC every month. More importantly, is that it gives Rob the much-needed development time to work on new projects like our recently released puzzle game hexceed and a new project we are working on for release in early 2022!
hexceed
A small mention on hexceed, we are very proud of how successful our release of hexeed was. We are very aware that most of the success of hexceed was down to you, the Coloring Pixels player base, who welcomed a new game released by us and gave hexceed a try.
So truly, from both of us here at ToastieLabs - Thank you! ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
For those of you who simply love Coloring Pixels and may not have seen hexceed; hexceed is our newest addition to our development library. A hexagon grid that is our modern take on the classic game, minesweeper!
We took the same feel we wanted from Coloring Pixels, relaxing and rewarding, and put it into a puzzle game!
What's new?
We took the time to learn how to localise a game with hexceed, the game is available in 16 different languages! (If you count Star Trek's Klingon as a playable language that is)
With localisation implemented into the game, we have been fortunate enough to start putting hexceed onto the Nintendo Switch! Something we hope to be able to do for Coloring Pixels in the future for all of you Nintendo fans!
Community
Every Coloring Pixels Birthday is dedicated to you, our community.
We are very excited to have been able to add much more support and places for our community to interact with us over the past year.
Social Media - Twitter was already a good place to go for interaction between us and the community but it has been exciting to see the continued growth of our Twitter, thank you! Alongside Twitter, we have very recently created an official ToastieLabs Instagram to share a different look at our work, thanks to everyone who has checked it out already!
Reddit - Another recent addition is our subreddit! A new forum for all of our game news, memes and any other community updates! Thanks to our Redditor fans!
Discord - Our Community Discord server has been beyond belief. We have over 700 of you hanging out in our Discord and chatting with us and each other every single day! It really makes the work we put in worth it to get instant interaction with you, from your suggestions and feedback to the inside jokes and memes that you have created!
YouTube - We started a Dev Blog at the very start of the year, partially so you can have a behind-the-scenes look at ToastieLabs, but also so we can have a personal log of all of our progress - so much has happened it's easy to forget some things we have done! (>’o’)> The big surprise is how many of you enjoy watching us goofing around as well as how much Lee enjoys editing in bad jokes every week - over 1,300 Subscribers is way more than we ever expected - Thank you all!
(Keep an eye on our YouTube as we enter September as we plan on release a 1-Year at ToastieLabs video special!)
Patreon - A huge thank you to everyone on our Patreon, we set this up after months of requests from you offering to support us in more ways than just buying our games. We did not expect much from it but we are absolutely blown away by the support you give and cannot thank you all enough! A special mention to our Patreons for their contribution to Coloring Pixels by voting on what DLC they want to see each month!
Merch - Last but not least, Merch! We added merch to this website, partially as a joke, partially due to community requests, but mostly because we wanted to buy our own branded merchandise. (＞◡＜) Thank you to everyone who now has ToastieLabs on their clothes or a hexceed/Coloring Pixels branded mug!
More to Come!
We have no intentions of stopping anytime soon! Keep your ears to the ground in our ever-growing selection of community channels to see what updates are coming to Coloring Pixels and hexceed along with news on our latest game project!
A Note for 20/21
I feel like we can't make a 2020-2021 post without mentioning the hardships that this year brought globally with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Here at ToastieLabs, we have been somewhat fortunate with the only effects being working from home for a short while and a couple of family members getting mildly infected.
We are aware that this won't have been the same story for a lot of you and we want to give you our heartfelt support. Thank you for sticking with us during this and we can only hope that our games have helped some of you during these times of isolation. <3
The Annual Pixel Art Competition
Continuing the tradition! The 4th annual Coloring Pixels art competition is here! For anyone who isn't aware, this competition is the chance for you to get your own pixel art into Coloring Pixels! The winners of our previous competitions have their art in the books Community 1, 2 & 3!
For more information on the competition and how to submit your art, follow this link:
The celebrate the biggest year of ToastieLabs so far, we have added the largest free Bonus image yet!
Come and celebrate with us!
Patch Notes
Bug Fixes and Misc
Added a free new image "Birthday Cake 3" to the Bonus book
Re-Re-Re-added the “Your Art” button to the main menu but with a whole new look!:
Added some brief details about the pixel art competition.
Added links to more details and how to submit to the pixel art competition.
Made the Exit button smaller to make room for the submission button.
ToastieLabs Birthday Sale!
4 Years of ToastieLabs, 3 Years of Coloring Pixels, 1~ Year of hexceed!
All of these are reasons for us to celebrate! As such, we have set up a ToastieLabs Steam Sale from now all the way to Sunday the 23rd of August, 6 pm BST! That's a whole week of discounts on all of our available games on Steam!
Now is the perfect chance to pick up that DLC you always wanted or to finish your ToastieLabs collection!
Keep your eyes out tomorrow for more Coloring Pixels news as we begin the full celebration of Coloring Pixels turning 3 years old!
Landmarks 2 DLC Out Now!
The Landmarks 2 Book is here!
How many of these famous places have you been to?
This Landmarks 2 Book brings 20 new, large images to Coloring Pixels, the second book of its kind, each image depicts more famous landmarks from all over the globe!
This Landmarks 2 Book brings 20 new, large images to Coloring Pixels, the second book of its kind, each image depicts more famous landmarks from all over the globe!
Sit back and travel the world!
Like the first Landmarks book, all images are large at 200x150 pixels!
Available for the price of $0.99, £0.79, (or your regional equivalent). The pack will release on the 13th of August at 20:00 UTC/12:00 PST.
For a chance to win this DLC for FREE, join our Discord and enter the competition!
Community Input
This book was voted for by our Patreons and so we want to say a massive thank you to those who go the extra mile to support us!
For more info on our Patreon, check out our Discord or Website.
1- Bit DLC Out Now!
The 1-Bit Book is here!
A trip back to retro digital art!
The 1-Bit Book adds 20 new images to Coloring Pixels. Each image is a unique picture created in the retro 1-bit art style! That means each image has only 2 colors!
All images are kindly created by an external artist who wanted to contribute to Coloring Pixels!
This 1-Bit Book brings 20 new images to Coloring Pixels! Each image is a unique picture created in the retro 1-bit art style! That means each image has only 2 colors!
All images are kindly created by an external artist who wanted to contribute to Coloring Pixels!
Available for the price of $0.99, £0.79, (or your regional equivalent). The pack will release on the 9th of July at 20:00 UTC/12:00 PST.
For a chance to win this DLC for FREE, join our Discord and enter the competition!
Community Input
This book was voted for by our Patreons and so we want to say a massive thank you to those who go the extra mile to support us!
For more info on our Patreon, check out our Discord or Website.
Coloring Pixels v1.17.0 Patch Notes
New Book Selection!
We have updated the Book Selection part of the main menu! Until now it has had very little attention since its launch, and since then we have added many new DLC and features like new Game Plus. It's time for an update.
Free Books are now ordered to the top. This means that free Community books will appear before any DLC and the Bonus book, instead of in order of appearance. We are hoping that this will make it easier for new players of the game to understand what is free and what isn't.
Books are sorted into sections now! We have split the book selection up to make it easier to digest. Books you don't own are kept separate in a section at the bottom and books you have completed are kept separate from the books you have yet to finish. The order for these sections is as follows:
Featured DLC - This shows any upcoming DLC, newly released DLC (for 2 weeks after launch), or any seasonal books which are scheduled to appear throughout the year. For example, the Monsters and Halloween books will appear for two weeks prior to Halloween and the Advent books during December.
In Progress - This shows any books that you have access to that you have not yet completed.
Completed - This shows the books that you have completed all levels in.
New Game+ 1 - This shows the books you have completed to the first red new game plus mode.
New Game+ 2 - This shows the books you have completed to the second green new game plus level.
New Game+ 3 - This shows the books you have completed to the third blue new game plus level.
New Game+ 4 - This shows the books you have completed to the black new game plus level.
Not Owned - This shows you all of the DLC that you don't have installed. Please note that these DLC won't show up in any of the above sections (with the exception of featured), hopefully, this makes it much easier to identify the content that is available to you.
Finally, we have updated the "Hide Completed Books" setting. Previously this would remove all books that have been completed (regardless of new game plus level). Now it is a slider, which allows you to specify which level of completion you want to hide. So if you want, you can now hide New Game Plus Green and above only.
This new Book Selection will be enabled by default. If you don't like it, we have added a "Legacy Book Select" setting that will revert your main menu back to the chronological sorting method.
Free New Bonus Book Image!
It is pride month! Admittedly we are a bit late to the party this year but we would still like to share in the celebration and spread awareness of the movement. After all, everyone is awesome, and everyone should be treated as such!
In this update, we are adding a new free image to the Bonus book, inspired by the progress flag for all to enjoy!
Grayscale!
In this update, we are adding a new setting "Grayscale Unselected Colors". As usual with our new features, it is completely optional. It is set to off by default but when enabled, only the color you currently have selected will show any color, leaving the rest of the image in grayscale. This has been highly requested by the community, so we hope you like it!
Coloring Pixels v1.17.0 Patch Notes
New Features
Added support for the 1-Bit Book DLC! - p.s The Store Page button for the book will not work until next week when the Store Page goes live!
New Main Menu Book Select! - As described above! Default On, but you can go back to the legacy view with the "Legacy Book Select" option in the settings menu.
Hide Completed Books Improvements! - Instead of being an On or Off setting, it is now a slider that allows you to control which New Game Plus level you want to start hiding at!
Color Picker! - A future requested by the community, you can now middle-click on a color you have painted to select it.
New Bonus Book Image! - The new level "Progress" is free for everyone. Enjoy!
More Control Over Dark Mode! - In addition to setting Dark Mode either On or Off, you can now specify to turn dark mode on for "UI Only" and "Pixels Only".
Grayscale Unselected Colors - Default to off. This new setting sets all unselected colors to grayscale, leaving the currently selected number to be normal. This makes it much easier to block out the colors that you have already completed, so you can stay focused!
Bug Fixes and Misc
The Settings Menu Button and the Exit button have been compressed to one line. This is to give more room for the book selection above.
Added a "Legacy Book Select" option in the Settings menu.
Updated Patreon list in the Credits Page.
Renamed "Night Mode" to "Dark Mode".
Coloring Pixels is in the Steam Summer Sale!
Sale!
All possible Coloring Pixels DLC, including the soundtrack, are included in the Steam Summer Sale!
