Containing 20 new levels, this pack is food themed! Inspired by food from fast to wild, raw to processed; expect to see everything from burgers and pizzas, to grapes and strawberries! The Food Pack will release Friday 27th September at 12:00 PDT/20:00 BST/19:00 UTC for $1/£0.79 or your regional equivalent.
Saturday the 17th August marks the one year anniversary of Coloring Pixel’s launch. We just wanted to say a huge thank you to all you wonderful people, for the incredible response and support you have all given us during this incredible year. From launch we have been overwhelmed with positive feedback and kind words, and we appreciate all of it.
We are surprised daily by the shear scale of the milestones you, the community have broken. Somehow 150,000 of you racked up a cumulative playtime of 280 years (we would have been overwhelmed if we had like 1,000 downloads, never mind this!).
Over the year we have continued to develop and improve on the game based on your suggestions: we have added keyboard shortcuts; accessibility features; night mode; and a whole new music roster. These features, in combination with the hundreds of new levels and newer features such as new game plus and the end of level animation, go to show how much the game has grown over such a short period. I mean even basic stuff wasn’t in the game at launch; you couldn’t restart an image without deleting save files! The settings menu only had a mute button!
We’d also like to take this time to apologise for the lack of interaction with the community in the discussions board in recent months, but we are a small team and had to slow down our work and release schedules due to the stresses and pressures of everyday life, whilst keeping up the progress on Coloring Pixels for all of you.
We just wanted to assure you that reaching this 1 year milestone doesn’t mean we will stop development, and we have some things in the works that you will hopefully see soon.
Anyway, enough of the soppy emotional stuff. We are here to celebrate!
We alluded to a few surprises earlier in the week, so here we go: we have a new patch for you today (scroll down for more info on that); we are running another pixel art competition (another chance to get your art in the game - why not give it a go); we have a birthday themed level available free for you to complete; and an anniversary 20% sale! Pretty sweet, huh!
Pixel Art Competition!
You may have seen this earlier in the week, but in order to commemorate the milestone of our first anniversary since release, we have decided to run another pixel art competition. For those of you that don’t know, this is the chance to get your art into the game! We ran one last year shortly after launch, and we had some amazing submissions from the community, with the top 20 being selected to form the free Community book!
For more information on the competition and how to submit your art, click on the following link:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/897330/announcements/detail/3357917265776262210
New Birthday Level!
A new birthday level coming free today in the bonus book (Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me!!):
V1.12.13 Patch Notes!
Bug fixes and misc
Added Isometric Pack Support
Major bug fixes the end of game animation (for users with the “lock completed pixels” setting off).
Added birthday cake image to the bonus book.
Reworded the shameless self plug for the bonus book.
<*>Re-added the “Your Art” button to the main menu (we missed you):
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 settings button smaller to make room for the submission button.
We are here again, one year later! To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of Coloring Pixels, we’re doing another competition!
The 20 winners of this competition will have their pixel art featured in a free update to Coloring Pixels. It's very easy to enter; read out blogpost to find out all the information you need. When you're ready, follow the link to the submission form:
Rules and Suggestions Submit Here
The deadline is the 18th October 2019 at 17:00 UTC, the winners will be announced on 25th October 2019 via a blog post on our website, Steam announcement, and via Twitter. Follow us on Twitter to stay informed: https://twitter.com/ToastieLabs
Anniversary Sales and Isometric Pack DLC!
Anniversary Sales!
We are celebrating the 1 year anniversary of Coloring Pixels! We have a couple of surprises coming this week, but let’s start with this one… Almost all Coloring Pixels DLC is 20% off this week!
Announcing the Isometric Pack!
Containing 20 new levels, this pack is isometric themed! Expect a variety of patterns, scenes, and art; all from an isometric perspective!The Isometric Pack will release Friday 23rd August at 12:00 PDT/20:00 BST/19:00 UTC for $1/£0.79 or your regional equivalent.
With the launch of patch v1.12.0 some of you experienced frequent crashes and lag spikes that made the game very difficult to play. It looks like we have finally managed to fix these problems but we are very sorry that this happened. So as an apology and a thank you to all of those who were able to help us to diagnose this issue we have just released a new free image in the bonus book.
V1.12.12 Patch Notes
Bug fixes and misc
Added new Image to the Bonus book.
Fixed bug with the bonus screen and removed the newsletter requirement.
Fixed a reliability issue with the end of level timelapse.
Added support for the Variety Pack DLC
Announcing The Variety Pack DLC!
Containing 20 new levels; the variety pack contains a selection of levels from various themes! Expect vehicles, city-scapes, landscapes, and various other peculiar objects!
The Variety Pack will release Friday 26th July at 12:00 PDT/20:00BST/19:00 UTC for $1/£0.79 or your regional equivalent.
A small group of you have been requesting a new game plus mode since the game’s launch. Coming today in V1.12 of Coloring Pixels we are adding just that! There are quite a few new things to cover, so let’s break it down.
New Game Plus Button When you complete a level, there is now a new heart button in the bottom left of the screen. Pressing this, and then the following confirmation button will restart the level into new game plus mode. This will wipe all progress on the image. You can new game plus the same level multiple times to get increasingly more prestigious level select cards (described later).
New Game Plus Feature: Timer When playing a level in new game plus mode you will be timed! This is purely for those that are interested in the time taken for each image, or for those that want to beat their own record, and will in no way make the game competitive or less relaxing than before! The timer can be viewed by holding tab (or toggled to always be visible in the settings).
Level Card Rewards The main menu will change dramatically if you chose to complete images with new game plus. Now, each time you complete a level, it’s respective border will change color (default, to red, to green, to blue, to black). And if you manage to complete all levels to a certain color, the book’s button will also change.
We wanted add these optional features in an unobtrusive way, and as such we won’t be adding any new game plus related achievements.
Hope you enjoy!
100% Completion Playback
We have added a little animation when you complete a level! Now when you finish coloring, the camera gracefully pans out and the game plays a short timelapse of your progress from start to completion!
Unfortunately, until this v1.12 update we haven’t been tracking your coloring progress in sufficient enough detail to create this animation. So for any in-progress levels, you might notice that we faked the start of the playback for you. Sorry about this; you can always retry the level with New Game Plus if you want to take credit for the whole timelapse.
We hope you like this little addition. If you don’t, we have added an option in the settings to turn it off.
V1.12 Patch Notes
New Features
New game plus!
Complete levels multiple times to unlock newly colored pages and books.
Games started with new game plus track time played.
100% completion playback
New settings options
“Game Completion Animation” When enabled, the playback animation for 100% completion images will play. Defaulted to on.
“Show Percentage” When enabled, the percentage complete value will be shown on screen at all times (in level). When not enabled, you can hold tab to peek at this. Defaulted to off.
“Show Timer” When enabled, the level timer will be shown on screen at all times (in level). When not enabled, you can hold tab to peek at this. For new game plus levels only. Defaulted to off.
Bug fixes and misc
Slight graphical improvements to small pixels. When zoomed out you shouldn’t notice as many graphical artefacts.
Split Accessibility features into separate section in the settings menu.
Added support for the Flowers Pack DLC.
Announcing: Flowers Pack DLC!
Announcing: Flowers Pack DLC
Containing 20 new levels: this pack is floral themed! Expect patterns, bouquets, and roses!
The Flowers Pack will release Friday 21th June at 12:00 PDT/20:00BST/19:00 UTC for $1/£0.79 or your regional equivalent.
