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Pictopix on Steam Deck!

Did you know that Pictopix can be played on Steam Deck? 😀

It's still 30% off on Steam! 🎁 🎉

➡️ More info: https://steamcommunity.com/games/568320/announcements/detail/3132820191057709977 ➡️ Store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/568320/Pictopix/?curator_clanid=33526

Have fun!

Tom

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4,000 puzzles in Pictopix!

Hi everyone,

I hope you're all well.

4,000 puzzles!

I'm happy to announce that the number of puzzles you've created in Pictopix has exceeded 4,000!

Thank you all for your beautiful creations. There are all kinds. Video games, movies, music, comics, animals and so much more!

That's a lot of puzzles now. So don't hesitate to filter puzzles by theme or size. And use the Random button (bottom right) and uncheck “Include solved puzzles” to play puzzles you've missed (faster than browsing all Workshop pages).

Steam Spring Sale

Pictopix is 30% off during the Steam Spring Sale. Feel free to share the news!

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/568320/Pictopix/

Thanks again and have fun ♥

Tom

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Pictopix featured in Cerebral Puzzle Showcase!

Hello everybody,

Pictopix is featured on the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase!

This year, the puzzle games festival runs from May 23 to 30.

To celebrate the event, Pictopix is ​​30% off on Steam during this period: https://store.steampowered.com/app/568320/Pictopix/

With 4 game modes, numerous features and over 3,000 player-created puzzles, Pictopix is now the most popular (and highest-rated) picross/nonogram game on Steam.

Thanks again to the players for their feedback. Have fun! ♥

Tom

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Pictopix hits 1,000 positive reviews!

Hello everybody,

Pictopix hits 1,000 reviews a few days ago! With over 96% positive reviews!

And that's not all! Since the release of Pictopix in 2017, players have also created over 3,000 puzzles in the Workshop!

So thanks to all of you for your great feedback and contributions ♥

To celebrate the event, Pictopix is ​​30% off on Steam for a few days: https://store.steampowered.com/app/568320/Pictopix/

Feel free to recommend Pictopix to your friends!

Have fun and see you soon!

Tom

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Pictopix celebrates Halloween! 🎃

Play and discover the puzzles created by the developer and the players in Pictopix on the theme of Halloween! 👻🧛‍♂️

➡️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/568320/Pictopix/?curator_clanid=33526

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Pictopix 4th Anniversary

Hi everybody, I wish you all a Happy New Year! I hope you had a good holiday and enjoyed the Christmas puzzles recently added in Pictopix. If you missed them, feel free to read the previous news. Of course they are still available.

4th Anniversary

Today marks the 4th anniversary of Pictopix! To celebrate the event, I've added a puzzle in the Workshop. The theme of this puzzle is "Special Event".

I also have another gift for you...

Special gift

A long time ago, in 2009, I was a big fan of a Nintendo game called Picross DS (maybe you played it?) It was the first time I played a game like that. I was so obsessed with it that one day I developed in a few days a little Flash game based on it. A lot of time passed. Then I recently learned that Adobe company was going to end support of Flash for good. So I dug into my archives to look at the Flash games I had created. And I found the picross game! As Pictopix's birthday was approaching, it was the perfect timing to let you discover this little game I had developed

So if you want to play the game, just click on this link to download it: http://pictopix.tomlabgames.com/download/PicrossGame.zip Then unzip the ZIP file in a new directory. I recommend reading the README.txt file before launching the game (double click on the "Run Game" icon). As you can see, the game is not as complete as Pictopix. There are fifteen levels, a small level editor and... that's it! For the record, this little game helped me get a job in a video game company :) The game is of course free so you are free to share the game with other players. And if you have any questions, don't hesitate!

On sale

Pictopix is still on sale for 30% off on Steam! Feel free to share the news with your friends :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/568320/Pictopix/

Have fun and see you soon! Tom

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Pictopix - Free Christmas puzzles!

Oh oh oh! Happy holidays everyone! First, I hope you're going well and are safe. To celebrate Christmas, I have a gift for you!

Christmas puzzles

I've added new puzzles based on Christmas theme in Pictopix! Just go in the Workshop to download the puzzles. Do not hesitate to sort the puzzles by "Christmas" theme if you missed those from previous years! I hope you enjoy them!

Feel free to create your own Christmas puzzles!

4 years old soon!

Pictopix will be 4 years old on 5 January 2021! I would like to thank you all once again for your feedback and great reviews. It's a real pleasure to see the community grow, create lots of puzzles (2,000!) and enjoy Pictopix. So, have fun!

On sale

Pictopix is on sale for 30% off on Steam! Feel free to share the news with your friends :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/568320/Pictopix/

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Tom

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Vote for Pictopix in the Steam Awards!

Hello everyone and welcome to new players! I hope you are doing well and having a good time. Right now, it's the fall sales on Steam. So you can get Pictopix for 33% off! It's also the 2020 Steam Awards! To celebrate the event, you can vote for your favorite games in various categories. Pictopix has got free updates and contents throughout the year, so the game is open for nominations for "Labor of Love". Feel free to vote!

Thank you again for your support and have fun! Tom

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2,000 puzzles in Pictopix!

Hi everybody, I hope you are all safe and well!

2,000 puzzles!

I'm very happy to announce that the number of puzzles created by the players in Pictopix has exceeded 2,000! You're just amazing! Since the release of Pictopix in January 2017, you have never stopped to create new puzzles. Themes are varied and goes from video games to animals, comics, tv show, movies and many more! Some of the puzzles are very original and beautiful! I cannot name you all, but there are great contributors such as philomath_jp, Mattcraft900, bobscomic1, NPC #2431, theunnecessary, WheatTooth, MrNiceCream, Blü, Cakoka, Nupfi, Plushymanceress, Misora, Turbulent, Korb3n, Rena, [CN]sunyatsen6, Ishtar, Mittens, Hennihenner, Perendi, Flying Tom, pEppEr™, ChildishGiant, Kethlak... I'm probably forgetting names! So, I'd like to thank you all for continuing to play Pictopix and creating new puzzles. I'm still amazed that so many people still enjoy playing Pictopix, so thank you very much!

Two thousands, that's a lot of puzzles! Don't forget you can filter the puzzles with the sort options (theme, size, etc.). You can also let the game randomly choose a puzzle for you by clicking the Random button.

Update

Following your latest feedback, Pictopix is still being improved. The last version is 1.5.0c and you can check out the changelog here (or in game). If you have any suggestion or feedback, please do not hesitate to let me know. On the forum or on Discord if you prefer. Have fun and see you soon!

Tom

Pictopix is available on Steam (Windows, Mac and Linux): https://store.steampowered.com/app/568320/Pictopix/

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New reward system!

Hey everyone, I hope you are all safe and well! I'm pleased to announce a new update for Pictopix!

Awards

A major modification has been made: The way you earn awards (crowns) has been changed! As you can see on the picture below, you now earn more awards when playing in Intermediate and Expert mode. And if you solve a puzzle in Expert difficulty with almost no errors, awards are golden!

Thus, newcomers to picross games will get more pleasure to make progress and experienced players are still challenged in Pictopix!

(Game Options > Hints Tab > Awards Section) When you launch the game after the update, your game save (awards + achievements) will be updated. Some achievements might be unlocked!

Patterns

Following players' suggestions, it's now possible to choose a pattern for the grid background. Spotting a square or counting squares will be easier and quicker!

(Game Options > Interface Tab) Don't forget that enabling "Preview Filling" (Game Options > Gameplay Tab) displays a squares counter on screen! (more info here)

Running on background

One of your requests was to let the game run when you switch to another application. That's now the case! When the game loses focus, Pictopix no longer pauses.

If you prefer the game to pause, you can check the "Pause game on focus loss" option (Game Options > Interface Tab)

And more enhancements!

As you can see in the changelog (version 1.5.0), other enhancements have been made to improve the game experience.

Once again, thank you for the feedback and suggestions!

1,800 puzzles in the Workshop!

I'm pleased to see that the number of puzzles is still growing in the Workshop. More than 1,800 puzzles have been created by the community! Some puzzles are very nice and originals! Thank you for your contributions!

On sale

Pictopix is on sale for 33% off on Steam! Feel free to share the news with your friends :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/568320/Pictopix/

Have fun and see you soon!

Tom

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Free Lunar New Year puzzles!

Hello everybody, I wish you all a Happy Lunar New Year!

New puzzles

For celebrating the event, I have added new puzzles in the workshop! Just go in the "Workshop" section in Pictopix to play the "Lunar New Year" puzzles :)

I would like to thank Fall/谜之声 for his advice and suggestions for the puzzles. He also translated Pictopix into Chinese! I hope you will enjoy the new puzzles/pictures

Anniversary

If you missed it, Pictopix celebrated its 3rd anniversary the 5th January! To mark this occcasion, a puzzle has also been added in the workshop ("Special Gift" theme).

Lunar Sale

In celebration of the Lunar New Year, Pictopix is 33% off on Steam!

Have fun and see you soon! Tom

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1,700 puzzles! Pictopix is 33% off!

Hey everyone, 

I'm very pleased to announce that the number of puzzles created by the community has passed the 1,700 mark since the release of Pictopix in 2017! It's just amazing! I would like to thank all the players who continue to play and create new puzzles on Pictopix. Some puzzles are very fun to play and the players have a lot of imagination. As you can see in the image below, some pictures are really nice!

So again, I would like to thank all the community of Pictopix for sharing their creations :)

Halloween

In celebration of Halloween, Pictopix is 33% off on Steam this week! Feel free to play Halloween themed puzzles if you want to be scared ;)

Update

As usual, fixes and improvements have been made since the last update. Take a look at the changelog (version 1.4.4) to check them out. Don’t forget to join the community on Steam, Discord, Facebook or Twitter ;) Have fun and see you soon! Tom

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Pictopix is 30% off + Giveaway!

Hey everyone!

I'm pleased to announce that Pictopix is 33% off on Steam this week!

Since the release in January 2017, many features and game modes have been added to Pictopix! If you have missed them, check out the list:

Play 4 game modes: Classic, Mosaics, Endless and Challenges

Play hundreds of original levels

Create and share your own levels with other players

And many more!

If you want to learn more, take a look at the store page!

Giveaway

To celebrate the sale, you can win a copy of Pictopix! Just follow this link to participate.

Good luck! And don't forget to join the community on Steam, Discord, Facebook or Twitter :)

Have fun and see you soon!

Tom

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New Free DLC: Mosaics!

Hello everybody, I'm very excited to announce that a new free update is available for Pictopix! This update adds new content and foremost a new game mode: the Mosaics Mode! 

Mosaics Mode

In this new game mode, you'll have to reveal three large pictures! They are composed of grids of puzzles. Solve the puzzles one after the other for unveiling small parts of the picture. When all of the tiles are completed, the entire image will appear in color! You can play the puzzles in any order you like or, if you prefer, click on the Shuffle button (upper right corner of the screen) to pick a random puzzle! As you can see in game, the size of the puzzles vary from one mosaic to another. In the first mosaic, the puzzles are 10 x 10. In the second one, 15 x 15. And 20 x 20 in the last mosaic! There are more than a hundred of puzzles to solve! Completing the three large mosaics should take several hours.

New Achievements

I also added four new achievements in relation to the Mosaics Mode. The most skilled players among you will probably want to earn all the awards in this mode!   

I hope you will have fun with the Mosaics Mode! Do not hesitate to give feedback! As usual, you can read the full changelog here (version 1.4.0). I made some minor fixes and improvements in the game. Once again, I would like to thank the players who help me translate the game.

To celebrate the arrival of the Mosaics DLC, Pictopix is 30% off on Steam for several days! Feel free to share the news with your friends!

Have fun and see you soon! Tom

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Free Christmas puzzles!

Happy Holidays everybody!

I hope you are enjoying some time off with family and relaxing with good games! To celebrate Christmas, I have a gift for you! Some new puzzles and a small update Christmas puzzles

I've added puzzles of various sizes based on Christmas theme in Pictopix. Go in the Workshop, you will see the new puzzles. Do not hesitate to sort the puzzles by "Christmas" theme if you missed those of the past year!

A little surprise is waiting you when you complete a puzzle on Christmas theme! Workshop notifications

When you run the game, a notification will now appear on some buttons if new puzzles have been added in the Workshop. The notification will display the number of puzzles created since your last visit.

Besides this new feature, I made some minor tweaks and fixes in the new update (version 1.3.6) Winter Solstice

Today is winter solstice! If you have (almost) finished the classic mode, perhaps you should take a look at puzzles Two years old

On 5 January 2019, Pictopix will be 2 years old! Once again, I'd like to thank all of the people who play Pictopix! Thanks for helping me improve the game and translate it in different languages. Thanks for creating hundreds of puzzles in the Workshop. Thank you also for your positive reviews and feedback!   It's amazing to see players spending hundreds of hours on Pictopix so it makes me very happy! I hope you will continue enjoying Pictopix During the Steam Winter Sale, Pictopix is on sale for 30% off. Please feel free to share the news with your friends!

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Tom site: http://pictopix.tomlabgames.com/ discord: https://t.co/Kf4rbUOeJi twitter: https://twitter.com/pictopix facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pictopix/ tumblr: https://pictopix.tumblr.com/ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pictopix_game/

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Halloween Update!

Hello everybody, To celebrate Halloween, I'm really pleased to announce a new update for Pictopix! Halloween

Like last year, there is a special event hidden in the game! To discover what it is, here's a little hint: go into the Workshop and play a puzzle in the Halloween theme Feel free to use the search engine to find puzzles quickly!

Henceforth, this event will be active every year over the same period. I've also created a new puzzle in the Workshop. I hope you'll enjoy it! Preview filling

In the new update, Pictopix introduces a new feature named "Preview filling". When this one is enabled, now you can preview the squares that you are filling. Hold the button and move the cursor to highlight squares. Then release the button to fill the squares! A counter is also displayed next to the cursor. It shows the number of squares highlighted. It can be helpful to count them.

This feature works with the mouse, the keyboard or the controller! You can enable "Preview filling" in the game options (Gameplay tab) Some players were asking me regularly this feature. I was reticent at first because I thought the feature will give an advantage to players in Challenges mode, but it does not. Interface improvement

In the previous update (version 1.3.4), I added the "Thick line" option in the Interface tab. When you check it, the five-block indicator lines are thicker (thanks constantcompile for the suggestion!)

I also updated some skins and added two new ones ("Classic Dark" and "Amethyst") :

Translation

Once again, I would like to thank the players who help me translate Pictopix in their own language. Sometimes they are not always available so there may be some missing translation. In such cases, feel free to let me know! As usual, you will find the full changelog here (version 1.3.5).

Pictopix is currently at 30% off on Steam!

Have fun and see you soon!

Tom

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Twitch and chat!

Hello everyone,

I hope you are doing well! I'm glad to announce that Pictopix has got a new update with some special features! The first one is the integration of Twitch. Let me introduce this new feature!

Twitch Integration

After several tests and iterations of this feature with the help of a few players and the french streamer Seldell (many thanks to him!), I'm finally satisfied with the Twitch integration.

When the streamers enable this feature, the viewers can interact with the game by typing commands to the Twitch chat!

For example, if a viewer wants to fill the square at coordinates B 4, he just types "!fill B4". The proposal will be displayed on game screen. The streamer can check the proposal ("!fill 15" in the screenshot) before validating or discarding it.

The streamer can also activate an "Autoplay" option and the most submitted actions will be played automatically after a certain period of time!

Following is a list of commands you can type in Twitch chat:

!fill: fill blank squares.

!cross: mark blank squares with crosses.

!mark: mark temporarily blank squares.

!clear: clear blank.

!help: display the commands in chat.

The first four commands can be used in this way:

!fill [letter]: fill a column (for e.g. !fill A)

!fill [number]: fill a row (for e.g. !fill 1)

!fill [letter][number]: fill a square (for e.g. !fill A1)

!fill [letter][number] [letter][number]: fill a line (for e.g. !fill A1 A5)

Streamers can enable Twitch Integration in the game options (Streaming tab):

I hope you will appreciate this new game mode! Do not hesitate to give feedback about Twitch Integration.

Discord

I've added Rich Presence suppport to Discord. Now you can see which game mode your friends are playing. If one of them is playing Challenge Mode for example, you can join him to try to break his record!

Feel to join the discord of Pictopix if you want to discuss about the game!

Steam Chat

As in Discord, you can see which game mode your friends are playing.

If you want to learn more about the Steam Chat update, you can click this link:

https://steamcommunity.com/updates/chatupdate

As usual, many fixes and improvements have been made since the last update. Take a look at the changelog (version 1.3.2) to check them out.

You can get Pictopix on Steam or on the Humble Store.

Have fun and see you soon!

Tom

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