Pixel Fixel news & patch notes

Thank you to all 5600~ steam users who've given our game a go. It has been a pleasure to receive your encouraging comments and reviews. Here's what I've cooked up for ya!

Gradient Gap

The Remixel DLC has been a big hit! So I decided to add even more content for the owners of it. Introducing a new game mode called Gradient Gap. In this game mode you will progressively get harder and harder levels where you need to place a single block in the correction position. Who knows how far someone will go, so far my best has been Round 22. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44878907/337f45a1c71162bd5d0fbf272519c6430f304c54.png

Tournament Still Holding Strong!

We are running another Pixel Fixel tournament in our discord. A corresponding page with details has been is in the game. Essentially, players will compete in a 1v1 single-elimination tournament to win prizes. Join us in our discord to participate, we're having our 6th season of the tournament on November 24th! Looking forward to seeing y'all there.

And more!

• Added 1 new theme to the Remixel DLC, "Darkness."
• Added lots of people to the credits, thank you so much for all the support!
• Lots of work preparing the game for an iOS and Android launch. It already exists on the Google Play store if you're interested :)

Thank you to all 5000~ steam users who've given our game a go. It has been a pleasure to receive your encouraging comments and reviews. This time we have a small patch with some tweaks. The next one will be a little bit bigger because we're aiming to do an iOS and Android launch!

Changes and Additions

• Added new theme for Remixel owners!
• Fixed the level completion counts for the messages on title screen
• When a player uses a hint in multiplayer, it alerts both players
• Screenshotting to clipboard in the collection screen works on first try now
• Laptops should have a major performance boost. If you ever experienced framerate drops on laptops, that should not happen anymore!

As always, thanks for checking out the game, and being interested in the updates! We have lots of stuff going on with Pixel Fixel and other games in our discord. If you're ever looking for someone to play with or updates on the tournament, head over to our discord!

Thank you to all 4,700~ steam users who've given our game a go. It has been a pleasure to receive your encouraging comments and reviews. An even bigger patch than the one from last month, AGAIN!

Remixel Launch!

The Remixel DLC has launched! You can check it out on the store page. This DLC is meant to act as a premium version of the game, there will not be any future dlcs. Any future content will be either put in the DLC or in both the base game and the DLC! Here's what you can expect if you purchase the Remixel DLC :

• 60 New Levels with whacky shapes.
• Access to a tool for making, and playing with, your own colorways, including in multiplayer sessions!
• 2 New soundscapes (Piano & Fireplace)
• 2 New themes (Beaches & Mountains)
• 5 New secret codes in the collection screen (Check Levels 38, 76, 114, 152, 190!)
• Higher limit for custom games and multiplayer games, up to 30x30!
• Twice as many hints!
• Decorative flair for your username during multiplayer sessions.

New Colorways!

In addition to all the new colorways Remixel Edition brings, I have also removed 3 of the least used colorways and replaced them with three colorways that aim to accommodate colorblind players. Check them out! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44878907/c5121638db238c5198999bbc41ec162ab4036e27.png

Tournament Returns

We are running another Pixel Fixel tournament in our discord. There is a corresponding page added to the game that has details. Essentially, players will compete in a 1v1 single-elimination tournament to win prizes. Join us in our discord to participate, the first tournament will be on June 29th 7:00 pm US-EST.

And more!

• Can now scroll in both directions for colorways, themes and soundscapes
• Fixed Stormy soundscape to not have knocking sounds anymore
• Screenshot functionality to the collection screen, brag to your friends!
• Secret codes can now only be used if you have completed the level they're associated with. Check out the Collection screen once you've completed a bunch of levels!
• Added lots of people to the credits, thank you so much for all the support!
• Added Linux support!

Thank you to all 2200~ steam users who've given our game a go. It has been a pleasure to receive your encouraging comments and reviews. An even bigger patch than the one from last month!

New Colors

It has been pointed out that the way we generate the colors for each puzzle is not ideal. Long story short: we've been using raw RGB values interpolated between the corner blocks. This creates a slightly muddy color for the middle blocks in a lot of cases, wherein the color isn't what you would expect. To adjust for this, we've rewritten the color generation system to go into OKLAB colorspace, form a gradient, and then back to RGB. This gives the colors a more 'realistic' appearance. Here's an image that demonstrates a before and after this change. In a lot of cases, the change will be very subtle, in some cases, it will be more pronounced. Hopefully, this helps people judge which colors go where more easily :) https://i.ibb.co/r4xwcTV/125915883.png

Tournament

We've teamed up with Lospec to run a Pixel Fixel tournament in our discord. There is a corresponding page added to the game that has details. Essentially, players will compete in a 1v1 single-elimination tournament to win prizes. Join us in our discord to participate, the first tournament will be on May 18th 7:00 pm US-EST.

And more!

• Fixed Level 25's name. It had a duplicate name with a different level.
• Added a new way to scroll through levels, 5 pages at a time!
• Added a "wave" function to the collection screen, why the heck not!
• Levels start in a more aesthetically pleasing way, with the blocks appearing and growing.
• Fixed a bug that caused a screen transition to take way longer than normal.
• Fixed a bug that caused level metadata to not update when going back to the level select screen.
• Added more users to the credits, thanks so much for your help, everyone!
• Fixed a bug that caused lag when viewing the collection screen for some low-end devices.
• More visual stuff for the options menu.

Thank you to all 1800~ steam users who've given our game a go. It has been a pleasure to receive your encouraging comments and reviews. Here is our biggest patch yet! Here is a list of all the features we've introduced. The aim is to do another major patch sometime in the future, but for now we will collect more feedback and ideas.

Daily Puzzles

This is a pretty big feature and may have a few hiccups. Essentially, each day it will generate a unique puzzle combination. This should be the same for everyone in the world. Players will be tasked with completing it before they run out of moves. Give it a try!

Tournament

We've teamed up with Lospec to run a Pixel Fixel tournament in our discord. There is a corresponding page added in the game that has details. Essentially, players will compete in a 1v1 single-elimination tournament to win prizes. Join us in our discord to participate, the first tournament will be May 18th 7:00pm US-EST.

Steam Cloud

Upon closing the game, the cloud save will be updated. This allows your progress to carry over any machine using the same steam account!

More Options

We have added two new Soundscapes! "Harp" & "Stormy" and one new theme "Paper." In the future we'll add some more!

And more!

• We have a new logo! You'll see this new logo all throughout steam.
• Added Tutorial to the main menu
• A credits page! A small token of our appreciation for everyone who has left a positive steam review!
• Toggling the "Confetti" option gives you a taste of the party to come
• Added lots of decorative elements to all aspects of the game
• More secret codes! There are even more secret codes to unlock via the Sacred Gradient (Collection). Additionally, typing in a secret code now reverses its effects.
• Fixed issue with the pickup and drop sound effects clipping
• 5 new achievements
• Changed completion requirement for unlocking a new level-select page. It now takes 94 completed levels to unlock the final page, down from 141.

Hey! Just wanted to say thanks for all the feedback and reviews we've been getting so far, its very exciting! Here are some small changes I made, more are coming soon!

• Made sure closing menu won't click on a block
• Added secrets, you'll find them in the Collection screen. The sacred gradient will guide you, if you're worthy!
• Changed the display for the sacred gradient to emphasize Pro Mode completions moreso!
• Added an option to disable confetti, it's disabled by default
• Game now stores your fullscreen setting so you don't have to re-enable it when you re-launch
• Cleaned up some things that should ensure better performance on low-end machines