- Only the Best Players are Zeros - 13 April 2017
Early Access Build 2017.4.11.1 of Pixel: ru² has been rolled out on Steam and with it comes something we've been talking about for quite a while... https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F8008774%2F95b8e8a693369adfcbfaf0db60e900893a280f94.png Online Leaderboards! Now when you play Pixel through Steam (or login with your Steam account in-game) your score will be automatically added to the online leaderboard system. The system will score every run you do, but only your best score on each level will be used on the leaderboard. This was done in case we change the scoring algorithm in the future. This way, all the runs can be updated, and if a different one is your best score, that one will be used. Remember that Pixel is still in Early Access and the leaderboards are subject to change. As we adjust existing levels we may create new boards to help keep things fair, b…
- Only the Best Players are Zeros - 13 April 2017
Early Access Build 2017.4.11.1 of Pixel: ru² has been rolled out on Steam and with it comes something we've been talking about for quite a while... https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F8008774%2F95b8e8a693369adfcbfaf0db60e900893a280f94.png Online Leaderboards! Now when you play Pixel through Steam (or login with your Steam account in-game) your score will be automatically added to the online leaderboard system. The system will score every run you do, but only your best score on each level will be used on the leaderboard. This was done in case we change the scoring algorithm in the future. This way, all the runs can be updated, and if a different one is your best score, that one will be used. Remember that Pixel is still in Early Access and the leaderboards are subject to change. As we adjust existing levels we may create new boards to help keep things fair, b…
- Happy Ada Lovelace Day - 13 October 2015
For those of you that don't know, October 13th this year is Ada Lovelace day, a day about women in science, technology, engineering and maths. It was named after Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the first computer programmer. New Level To celebrate today, we created a new level called Algorithm. It's available in both the demo and the full version of the game. It's a tricky level that involves an intricate color puzzle. There's no combat in the level, but you will need to use your beam weapon. Remember that by default, you can change your weapon's color with the scroll wheel. Trading Cards Ada Lovelace wasn't the only woman that did a lot for computer science; there are plenty of others. In fact, five of the fifteen trading cards are of women that did a lot for computer science: Ada Lovelace Adele Goldstine Grace Hopper Jean Sammet Joan Clarke Other Fixes We also fixed a minor bug (thank you…
- Happy Ada Lovelace Day - 13 October 2015
For those of you that don't know, October 13th this year is Ada Lovelace day, a day about women in science, technology, engineering and maths. It was named after Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the first computer programmer. New Level To celebrate today, we created a new level called Algorithm. It's available in both the demo and the full version of the game. It's a tricky level that involves an intricate color puzzle. There's no combat in the level, but you will need to use your beam weapon. Remember that by default, you can change your weapon's color with the scroll wheel. Trading Cards Ada Lovelace wasn't the only woman that did a lot for computer science; there are plenty of others. In fact, five of the fifteen trading cards are of women that did a lot for computer science: Ada Lovelace Adele Goldstine Grace Hopper Jean Sammet Joan Clarke Other Fixes We also fixed a minor bug (thank you…
- There are 10 Types of Players on Steam - 10 October 2015
Those that have played Pixel: ru², and those that have not. Ha, ha, ha... Anyway, 10 is a special number in our latest update, and here's why. 10 New Levels We completely overhauled the tutorial and expanded it from the four old levels to ten new ones. Some elements of the old levels made it into the new levels, but the majority is new and improved and designed to help you get the hang of the mechanics better as well as just being a lot more fun and engaging. With new levels comes new music and new backstory. Give them a try and tell us what you think! All ten of these levels will also be available in the demo. 10 New Achievements Pixel now has Steam Achievements. We plan on adding more over time, but added ten now to get you started. Here are a few of them: 10 100 1: Kill two enemies with a single Rocket. Firewall: Set an enemy on fire through a barrier using the Burn weapon. Hax: Jump…
- There are 10 Types of Players on Steam - 10 October 2015
Those that have played Pixel: ru², and those that have not. Ha, ha, ha... Anyway, 10 is a special number in our latest update, and here's why. 10 New Levels We completely overhauled the tutorial and expanded it from the four old levels to ten new ones. Some elements of the old levels made it into the new levels, but the majority is new and improved and designed to help you get the hang of the mechanics better as well as just being a lot more fun and engaging. With new levels comes new music and new backstory. Give them a try and tell us what you think! All ten of these levels will also be available in the demo. 10 New Achievements Pixel now has Steam Achievements. We plan on adding more over time, but added ten now to get you started. Here are a few of them: 10 100 1: Kill two enemies with a single Rocket. Firewall: Set an enemy on fire through a barrier using the Burn weapon. Hax: Jump…
- Transparency - New Color for Pixel - 17 September 2015
Hello everyone, I know we haven't posted much lately, and we want to change that. We want to be more open with everyone about our development process so everyone can easily stay up to date on what we're working on. That's what we want to make C63 Industries a more transparent company. Live Streams As of last week, we've been doing live development streams on Twitch. We plan on continuing this trend and hope to be able to continue doing one every night for as long as we can. We'll probably not be able to do one during events like PAX, but we hope to bring you other content during those events such as a live stream from our booth. You can watch us develop Pixel almost every night at Midnight (central time) on Twitch: C63.in/stream Online Multiplayer We're still working on finishing this up. What went well as a prototype has been a bit of a challenge to implement well. We are making progre…
- Transparency - New Color for Pixel - 17 September 2015
Hello everyone, I know we haven't posted much lately, and we want to change that. We want to be more open with everyone about our development process so everyone can easily stay up to date on what we're working on. That's what we want to make C63 Industries a more transparent company. Live Streams As of last week, we've been doing live development streams on Twitch. We plan on continuing this trend and hope to be able to continue doing one every night for as long as we can. We'll probably not be able to do one during events like PAX, but we hope to bring you other content during those events such as a live stream from our booth. You can watch us develop Pixel almost every night at Midnight (central time) on Twitch: C63.in/stream Online Multiplayer We're still working on finishing this up. What went well as a prototype has been a bit of a challenge to implement well. We are making progre…
- Don't Rage Quit Alone - 21 June 2015
Multiplayer for Pixel: ru² is coming! We're happy to announce that an addition to Pixel: ru² that's been planned since the start is finally going to be rolled out starting in 1 - 2 weeks. Multiplayer modes! We have several modes that we're working on, and are going to be releasing them one at a time so we can use feedback and data from each mode to help make the rest better. We know how important playtesting is and we want to make sure everything is working well in each mode before adding a new one. We also don't want to spread ourselves too thin by releasing several modes at once. Leaderboard Mode This will be the first multiplayer mode to be rolled out and may remain the only multiplayer mode for a few months as we use it to test back-end code for the other modes. This mode isn't as advanced as the rest, which is why we're rolling it out first. Leaderboard mode will be similar to how…
- Don't Rage Quit Alone - 21 June 2015
Multiplayer for Pixel: ru² is coming! We're happy to announce that an addition to Pixel: ru² that's been planned since the start is finally going to be rolled out starting in 1 - 2 weeks. Multiplayer modes! We have several modes that we're working on, and are going to be releasing them one at a time so we can use feedback and data from each mode to help make the rest better. We know how important playtesting is and we want to make sure everything is working well in each mode before adding a new one. We also don't want to spread ourselves too thin by releasing several modes at once. Leaderboard Mode This will be the first multiplayer mode to be rolled out and may remain the only multiplayer mode for a few months as we use it to test back-end code for the other modes. This mode isn't as advanced as the rest, which is why we're rolling it out first. Leaderboard mode will be similar to how…
- Latest News & Updates - 28 May 2015
It's been a couple of weeks since our last update, and we have a lot to say! Trading Cards Some of you probably noticed that we've recently added trading cards. There are 15 trading cards in total and each one contains text about the early history of computers. Let us know what your favorite moment is. Emoticons With trading cards comes emoticons and we added special ones to Steam that allow you to create pictures like this: ːredpixːːgreenpixːːbluepixː ːbluepixːːredpixːːgreenpixː ːgreenpixːːbluepixːːredpixː Each emoticon represents a pixel that's a specific color. There are 8 colors in total. Settings We've overhauled our settings file and changed it from an INI file to a more scalable XML file. Unfortunately we don't have backwards compatibility with the INI file, so this means you're going to need to redo your settings (sorry). The good news is that this should never happen again, the…
- Latest News & Updates - 28 May 2015
It's been a couple of weeks since our last update, and we have a lot to say! Trading Cards Some of you probably noticed that we've recently added trading cards. There are 15 trading cards in total and each one contains text about the early history of computers. Let us know what your favorite moment is. Emoticons With trading cards comes emoticons and we added special ones to Steam that allow you to create pictures like this: :redpix::greenpix::bluepix: :bluepix::redpix::greenpix: :greenpix::bluepix::redpix: Each emoticon represents a pixel that's a specific color. There are 8 colors in total. Settings We've overhauled our settings file and changed it from an INI file to a more scalable XML file. Unfortunately we don't have backwards compatibility with the INI file, so this means you're going to need to redo your settings (sorry). The good news is that this should never happen again, the…
- Improved Performance and Lossless Audio Support - 5 May 2015
We just released a new build of Pixel: ru² onto Steam. Here are two of the major changes to the latest build. Improved Performance We completely overhauled how a lot of the threading was handled in Pixel: ru². This has resulted in better performance and smoother gameplay. If you had any issues running the game before, please give it another try. Lossless Audio Support We added support for FLAC files to Pixel: ru². If you install the soundtrack on Steam, the game will play those lossless audio files instead of the lossy compressed Ogg Vorbis files. http://store.steampowered.com/app/351280/ Let's Play A new Let's Play was released this week on YouTube. It was done by mbourg99 and shows the first few levels of the game. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Yt8kNvQZg If you write an article or record a video of Pixel: ru², let us know so we can share it with the community!
- Improved Performance and Lossless Audio Support - 5 May 2015
We just released a new build of Pixel: ru² onto Steam. Here are two of the major changes to the latest build. Improved Performance We completely overhauled how a lot of the threading was handled in Pixel: ru². This has resulted in better performance and smoother gameplay. If you had any issues running the game before, please give it another try. Lossless Audio Support We added support for FLAC files to Pixel: ru². If you install the soundtrack on Steam, the game will play those lossless audio files instead of the lossy compressed Ogg Vorbis files. http://store.steampowered.com/app/351280/ Let's Play A new Let's Play was released this week on YouTube. It was done by mbourg99 and shows the first few levels of the game. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Yt8kNvQZg If you write an article or record a video of Pixel: ru², let us know so we can share it with the community!
- Latest News from the Weekend - 27 April 2015
We have several things to share from the weekend, so instead of making separate posts for each one, here's one post with everything. New Guides We wrote two guides on Steam that we hope you find useful. How to Play Here is an instruction manual for anyone that needs one. It covers the basics, but also advanced topics such as using secondary colors in combat: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=431511682 Level Editor This is a guide with lots of information about the Level Studio. Don't let the length of it intimidate you, a lot of it is more like a reference than a guide. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=431242329 New Trailer - Can You Survive? We just released a new trailer. It shows off some of the fun gameplay mechanics and also hints at a little of the backstory. http://youtube.com/watch?v=V7umdGZVK4M Preview Article Agent86 over at Without The…
- Latest News from the Weekend - 27 April 2015
We have several things to share from the weekend, so instead of making separate posts for each one, here's one post with everything. New Guides We wrote two guides on Steam that we hope you find useful. How to Play Here is an instruction manual for anyone that needs one. It covers the basics, but also advanced topics such as using secondary colors in combat: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=431511682 Level Editor This is a guide with lots of information about the Level Studio. Don't let the length of it intimidate you, a lot of it is more like a reference than a guide. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=431242329 New Trailer - Can You Survive? We just released a new trailer. It shows off some of the fun gameplay mechanics and also hints at a little of the backstory. http://youtube.com/watch?v=V7umdGZVK4M Preview Article Agent86 over at Without The…
- Steam Workshop Support - 17 April 2015
We're happy to announce that Pixel: ru² is now integrated with Steam Workshop. This means you can create your own levels with the in-game Level Studio and then publish them to Steam. We'll be writing a guide on Steam to help everyone with the Level Studio. One tip to help get you started is that all the entities can be resized with the resize tool. This means that instead of placing a row of blocks next to each other, you only need to place one block and resize it. We look forward to seeing what levels everyone comes up with! You can access the workshop at: http://steamcommunity.com/app/351170/workshop/ We uploaded an old level to get things started. If you need any help, please post in the Workshop Discussion forum here: http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/discussions/?appid=351170 We're still working on making the levels that players subscribe to display correctly in the game. For now…
- Steam Workshop Support - 17 April 2015
We're happy to announce that Pixel: ru² is now integrated with Steam Workshop. This means you can create your own levels with the in-game Level Studio and then publish them to Steam. We'll be writing a guide on Steam to help everyone with the Level Studio. One tip to help get you started is that all the entities can be resized with the resize tool. This means that instead of placing a row of blocks next to each other, you only need to place one block and resize it. We look forward to seeing what levels everyone comes up with! You can access the workshop at: http://steamcommunity.com/app/351170/workshop/ We uploaded an old level to get things started. If you need any help, please post in the Workshop Discussion forum here: http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/discussions/?appid=351170 We're still working on making the levels that players subscribe to display correctly in the game. For now…
- Pixel: ru² Update - 7 April 2015
We just overhauled several things in the latest build of Pixel: ru². The biggest change is updating the grid from 16x16 to 64x64. This not only means that the game will look good on high resolution monitors, but it also allowed us to make the controls much smoother and less finicky. If you don't have a high resolution monitor, the game will scale itself for you without hurting the smoother controls. We also changed how we're listening to events such as key presses. Our new system shouldn't miss any key presses even if the game lags. Our new game cycle code should also be effected less by frame locking. This means that recording a video of Pixel: ru² shouldn't slow down the gameplay. Another thing that is included in this update are 2 new levels in the full version and 1 new level in the demo version. One of the new levels still has some bugs, but we'd still love to know what everyone th…
- Pixel: ru² Update - 7 April 2015
We just overhauled several things in the latest build of Pixel: ru². The biggest change is updating the grid from 16x16 to 64x64. This not only means that the game will look good on high resolution monitors, but it also allowed us to make the controls much smoother and less finicky. If you don't have a high resolution monitor, the game will scale itself for you without hurting the smoother controls. We also changed how we're listening to events such as key presses. Our new system shouldn't miss any key presses even if the game lags. Our new game cycle code should also be effected less by frame locking. This means that recording a video of Pixel: ru² shouldn't slow down the gameplay. Another thing that is included in this update are 2 new levels in the full version and 1 new level in the demo version. One of the new levels still has some bugs, but we'd still love to know what everyone th…
