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…
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 importa…
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 yo…
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…
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: Level Editor This is a guide with lo…
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…
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 con…
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