Coloring Pixels News

Hello Community!!!
We hope you all had a good Christmas (if you celebrate it) and have had a good time bringing in the new year. We sure did!

We're back at work now, working hard to bring you all those little bug fixes and more DLC's to enjoy over the coming months! If you have any ideas/suggestions for packs, there's a discussions thread currently ongoing that we will check through regularly.

Stay tuned for an announcement regarding DLC's next week! ;)

It’s been a few weeks since our last update but it will be worth the wait (we promise). There are lots of new features that you have been asking for that are coming in V1.9. To top it off, we are happy to announce the Winter Holiday’s DLC coming just in time for Christmas.

New Features

• New Setting (default off) - High Contrast - Some of you were having trouble reading numbers attached to dark numbers. High contrast changes two parts of the game, both of which help improve visibility. Firstly, the selected color in the palette will have a white background. Secondly, all incorrectly colored pixels will stay white as if brand new.
  
• New Setting (default off) - Hide Completed Books - When enabled, books that are 100% complete are hidden in the main menu.
  
• New Setting - Fonts: Open Dyslexic & Tahoma - Two new fonts added for those who dislike the default pixelated font. We will work to improve this feature in the future and are welcome to feedback and suggestions. (Currently doesn’t affect the main menu)
  
• Support for the Winter Holiday’s DLC.
  

Bug Fixes and Misc

• Steam Cloud Sync Optimisation - Those of you who are near to completing the game will notice that Steam will lock up (sometimes for several minutes) while Steam syncs your save data with the cloud. Coloring Pixels uses a lot of save files, which takes Steam a while to upload each time it syncs. To optimise this, the game now produces a single .zip file that is used for the sync.
  
• Corrected a typo with a level in the Space Pack (Vomet Comet -> Vomit Comet), the associated achievement has also been fixed.
  
• Multiple adjustments to the settings menu:
  
  • New layout - This helps to define which part of the game a setting will effect.
    
  • Pixel visualiser - Added new section that demonstrates how changing a setting will affect the appearance of pixels in game.
    
  • Adjusted the scroll bar to behave in the same way to other scroll bars in the game.
    

Unfortunately, Steam has informed us that Coloring Pixels won’t be eligible for Trading Cards. This is because a free to play game must have in app purchases to qualify for trading cards. Although Coloring Pixels has several DLCs that you can purchase, Steam do not see these as in app purchases. We are a bit disappointed with this outcome as I’m sure some of you will be, but we feel the game is better this way with DLC’s rather than having in-app purchases.


Announcing Coloring Pixel’s next DLC! The Winter Holidays Pack includes 20 new Winter and seasonal holiday inspired images. It launches on 21st December at 13:00 PST/20:00 GMT and will be available for $1, £0.79, or your regional equivalent.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/970110/Coloring_Pixels__Winter_Holidays/

Last week, Steam released their “Steam is still learning about this game” restrictions from Coloring Pixels. This means that we can now add more than 100 Achievements, Trading Cards, and the game can be featured on your profiles.


Now that we can have more than 100 achievements, today we will be adding an additional 81, bringing the total to 176. Since Coloring Pixels launched, we have wanted to have an achievement per level and another achievement for completing all levels in a book. Due to the 100 achievement limit, we have only been able to add the one achievement for completing a book for the past few months.

Today’s extra Achievements will add an achievement for completing each individual level in the Farm, Halloween, Community, and Emoji books, as well as for the 100K image we added last week.


We will be adding trading cards to Coloring Pixels as soon as possible. Unfortunately, since Coloring Pixels is a free to play game, cards won’t drop by traditional means. As with other free to play games on Steam, to make cards drop individually you will need to purchase $9 worth or DLC. Since there currently isn’t $9 worth of purchasable content, the only way you will be able to get trading cards is by random booster pack drops.

The cards, wallpapers, badges, and emoticons are currently being reviewed by Steam, we will let you know when we have more information.


To make it easier to unlock the additional 81 achievements, achievements will now pop from the main menu. This is instead of having to load each level individually. To bring your game back in sync with the additional achievements, you just need to click on each of the affected books (Farm, Halloween, Community, and Emoji).

Patch Notes

• All Steam Achievements can now pop from the main menu.
  
• Added support for additional Achievements.
  

A quick reminder that the Space DLC will launch on 30th November at 20:00GMT, 13:00PST. Now that we can have more than 100, this DLC will come with 21 achievements.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/970100/Coloring_Pixels__Space_Pack/

We did it guys!

As some of you have already noticed, Steam has just released the restrictions on Coloring Pixels. There is no longer a notice on the store page saying "Steam is still learning about this game".

As such, we are no longer restricted by the 100 Achievements limit, so we can now add achievements for the DLC book levels that we could not do before!
As well as this, we should soon be able to add trading cards, as well as the accompanying chat emojis and wallpapers!

Not only this, but the achievements you have received through Coloring Pixels now count towards global achievement statistics, and you can now add the game (and it's achievements) to showcases on your profiles!

Looks like we will have a busy day tomorrow - we will try to have the achievements added and tested as soon as possible, and we will keep you updated about the progress on creating some awesome looking trading cards too!

We'd also like to take a moment to thank all of you that have supported this game, by playing, sharing screenshots, purchasing DLC's, and helping this game to be recognised on Steam. We

Today, Coloring Pixels has had its 100,000th player! To celebrate we are adding an extra "100k" image to the bonus book for everyone to play. A big thank you to everyone who has helped us reach this milestone, you are all awesome!



New Features

• Added the "100k" image to the bonus book.
  

Today, we are also happy to announce the next DLC coming to Coloring Pixels. The Space pack will feature 20 space themed images for you to complete! Space is big; we have heard your feedback and keeping with the theme, this new book will contain more large images so you get more content for your money.
It launches on 30th November at 13:00 PST/20:00 GMT and will be available for $1, £0.79 or your regional equivalent.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/970100/Coloring_Pixels__Space_Pack/?beta=0