Coloring Pixels News

This Dinosaur book unlocks 20 additional levels for Coloring Pixels! Inspired by the prehistoric, dinosaurs from both land and sea! Get ready to color your favourites like the Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor as well as possibly learn about dinos you didn't know about!

Available for the price of $1.00, £0.79, (or your regional equivalent). The pack will release on the 11th September at 19:00 UTC/12:00 PDT.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1352583/

Monday 17th August marks the second year anniversary of Coloring Pixel’s launch! The kind comments and support for the game you have continued to give is incredibly heart warming, we are overwhelmingly grateful.

It has been a good year, we now have over 500 levels (with many more to come) and Coloring Pixels is available on Android and iOS. Somehow over 200,000 of you have downloaded the game, and with an average play time of 24 hours… that’s a lot of pixels colored!

We are just getting started! Rest assured that we have plans for at least another year of DLC content, as well as some content updates. We have some big plans for the future, but for now let’s take a moment to celebrate: we have added new birthday image; we’re hosting the 3rd annual pixel art competition; and all DLC will be 20% off for the week!


We have some big news (don’t worry it’s good news) we are moving from part time to full time games development!

This might seem like some odd news, but we are a VERY small development team. The core team consists primarily of myself (Rob) with a lot of support from my long term girlfriend Kim. For the last two years, I have been doing my best to manage content updates and new DLC packs for Coloring Pixels while also working a full time job. It has always been a dream of mine to do ToastieLabs work full time, and thanks to the continued support of all of you reading this, it is becoming a reality.

Myself and an old friend Lee, have both resigned from our current jobs and will start to work full time at the new ToastieLabs Office “Toastie HQ” on the 1st September! This is incredibly exciting for the both of us; we are both going to be working our dream jobs, we will have an office to call our own, and we will have much more time to be able to dedicate to the community, the development of Coloring Pixels, and hopefully new projects!

I can’t stress enough that all of you wonderful people who have supported us the last two years are making this possible. You are truly amazing! Thank you (>’o’)>

So keep your eyes peeled in September for more updates! We are hoping to start a Discord server, but other than that we are open to suggestions. Do you want to see dev logs, more games from us, or just want some more love and attention to Coloring Pixels? Let us know, and in September we will see what we can do

It’s starting to be a tradition for us, it’s time for the third Coloring Pixels art competition! For those of you that don’t know, this is the chance to get your art into the game! We ran one shortly after launch and another last year for our 1st birthday, with the top 20 submissions being selected to form the free ”Community 1” and “Community 2” books!

For more information on the competition and how to submit your art, click on the following link:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/897330/announcements/detail/4367882385589919412


We have put all of the Coloring Pixels DLCs on 20% off sale for the week!

Check them out here: https://store.steampowered.com/dlc/897330/

With today’s update we have added a new cake level to the bonus book! Celebrate with us!




[h2]Bug fixes and misc[/h2]

• Added new birthday cake image to the bonus book.
  
• Re-Re-added the “Your Art” button to the main menu:
  
  • 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.
    

To celebrate the 2 year anniversary of Coloring Pixels, we’re hosting 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; keep reading to find out all the information you need. When you're ready,
follow the link at the bottom of the post.

The deadline is the 16th October 2020 at 17:00 UTC, the winners will be announced on 23th October 2020 via a blog post on our website, Steam announcement, and via Twitter. Follow us on Twitter to stay informed: https://twitter.com/ToastieLabs


We need to make sure that your pixel art is compatible for use in Coloring Pixels. To help improve your chances, we have come up with a few simple rules for you to follow and some suggestions to help you get started.

[h2]Rules (the dull bit):[/h2]

• You must submit an image of file type PNG. Sadly, PNG is the only image file format supported by Coloring Pixels. Other formats can easily be converted to PNG through most image editing software and online converters.
  
• Image must have a maximum dimension of 300x300 pixels. As you will have noticed, the larger images in Coloring Pixels take exponentially more time to complete. Although we know a lot of you prefer larger images, we don't want levels taking weeks to complete.
  
• Submission must have fewer than 100 different colors. The fewer colors, the better for Coloing Pixels; so try to keep to as few as possible. It is difficult to know how many different colours there are in an image, so if you accidentally submit more than 100 colors it will be alright (we will just need to pass your image through a filter). Some applications such as Aseprite let you create a color palette (which we recommend) which allows you to keep track of colors easily. If you choose an application such as paint.net we recommend sticking to the pencil tool over using paint brush tools as they can often create numerous different colors in an attempt to blend with the background.
  

[h2]Suggestions[/h2]

• Size doesn't matter! As long as you keep within the 300x300 image dimension limit you won't be penalised for submitting a smaller image. We will be judging submissions based on aesthetic and not complexity. For example, if you submit an image of size 10x20, it will be judged equally to one of size 150x200.
  
• Which software should I use? We recommend using either Aseprite or Paint.net (free). Both are very powerful pieces of software which are more than capable of creating pixel art for this competition. That being said, you can use whichever software you want, as long as you can draw and produce a PNG file it should be good enough.
  
• I need inspiration! We can't choose for you, but you can draw anything. If you can't think of anything new or inspiring, try drawing something you love (film, game, pet fish) or even something on your desk (lamp, a book, that murder weapon you need to get rid of).
  
• Can I submit multiple times? Yes, don't hold back! Submit as many images as you like. We will judge each image anonymously and individually.
  

https://forms.gle/tF7hwFw2g42qgxzB8

This marine life book unlocks 20 additional levels for Coloring Pixels! Inspired by creatures of the sea, expect to see mammals and crustaceans of all shapes and sizes, from giant blue whales to cute but deadly pufferfish.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1352581/

This marine life book unlocks 20 additional levels for Coloring Pixels! Inspired by creatures of the sea, expect to see mammals and crustaceans of all shapes and sizes, from giant blue whales to cute but deadly pufferfish.

Available for the price of $1.00, £0.79, (or your regional equivalent). The pack will release on the 7th August at 19:00 UTC/12:00 PDT.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1352581/