Coloring Pixels News

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!


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


A new birthday level coming free today in the bonus book (Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me!!):



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.
  

Don't forget about the anniversary sale happening right now and next weeks Isometric DLC!
https://steamcommunity.com/games/897330/announcements/detail/1591379507788781260
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124541/Coloring_Pixels__Isometric_Pack/?snr=1_5_1100__1100

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

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!


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.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124541/Coloring_Pixels__Isometric_Pack/

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.



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
  

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.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124540/Coloring_Pixels__Variety_Pack/

The Steam summer sale is here and most DLCs for Coloring pixels are 20% off!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/928100/Coloring_Pixels__RPG_Book/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/942230/Coloring_Pixels__Flag_Pack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/942240/Coloring_Pixels__Halloween_Pack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/943420/Coloring_Pixels__Farm_Pack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/970100/Coloring_Pixels__Space_Pack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/970110/Coloring_Pixels__Winter_Holidays_Pack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1007580/Coloring_Pixels__Vistas_Pack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1007910/Coloring_Pixels__Patterns_Pack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1043420/Coloring_Pixels__Animals_Pack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1048050/Coloring_Pixels__Technology_Pack/