Tomlab Games

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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 4000!

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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Twitch and chat!

Hello everyone,

I hope you are doing well! I'm glad to announce that Pictopix gets 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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April Fools' Day!

Hello everybody, For this rather special day I wanted to build a rather special update for you! On the face of it the update will look quite inoffensive but maybe when you play a puzzle I've added to the Workshop (theme "Machine" from Tomlab Games) something will happen! Some things might have changed in the game! To give you a clue, this update involved quite a lot of texts... A big part of them have been translated in some languages, so I would like to thank the translators who have joined in. The task was not easy With this event, a new achievement will be unlocked and a permanent option will be added to the game options (in the "Gameplay" Tab). I hope you'll like this little surprise! As usual some small corrections have been made. You'll find them here (version 1.2.4)

I'll take the opportunity to say that in version 1.2.3 which came out two weeks ago the game's ergonomics were improved. The Options window has been totally redesigned to be more user friendly. Above all, it is now possible to reconfigure the keys on the keyboard, the mouse and even the controller! In the same way, the keyboard shortcuts in the editor can also be modified.

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

Have fun and see you soon! Tom twitter: https://twitter.com/pictopix facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pictopix/ tumblr: https://pictopix.tumblr.com/ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pictopix_game/