SNOWBALL!
It's very hard to believe that Dino Run was the last game that we actually owned. We've been selling games to other people for so long, I think it became kind of a habit, even if it was not in our best interest for long term health and sanity.
However.
We are very pleased to announce our next game, SNOWBALL!
We started this game a few years ago, but had to stop for various reasons. But then in October we were able to start it back up again, thanks to a little help from Miniclip.com. (The game will be exclusive on their site for a month, but then it's ours to distribute / license / etc).
Theres not much else to say about it... we're very excited about our first "pixeljam" game in a long time, and we can't wait for everyone to play it! It's currently in beta testing, and will probably be released within the month. We'll keep everyone updated!
Dino Run T-shirts!
Dear Dino Run Fans,
We've finally got some Dino Run t-shirts for sale! Go to: http://www.fibers.com/shop/dino-run
And use this promo code: DINO529 for $5 off. 
Some sample photos:
Our favorite plumber Dino
The rare Samurai Dino
Find all those hidden Super Eggs with this dino
(Photos by fibers.com)
Just a few designs up for now, but you can choose your own shirts and shirt colors. More Dino Run (and other Pixeljam) designs will make their way here eventually. We welcome requests as well.
I'd recommend the American Apparel shirts and also the women's junior style v-neck is very nice. They feel and fit great. We hear the Bamboo option is nice too.
Thanks & enjoy!
Dino Run SE for FREE, New Pixeljam Album
Hello all! Firstly, apologies for all the people that commented on our blog recently but never saw them go live. Apparently no one around here realized we had to manually approve every comment :/ We'll fix that.
Firstly, Dino Run SE is going to be FREE for 2 days this weekend : October 7th and 8th. (Friday and Saturday). On those days, go to http://www.pixeljam.com/dinorunse to get your copy!
Finally, our first music album is coming out friday as well! A collection of electronic / minimal / chip / folk / dub / etc from the people that make music for Pixeljam, plus some special guests. Every album purchase comes with a big goodie bag of Pixeljam-related treats as well. Images, animations, desktops, icons, etc.
Go to http://www.pixeljam.com/PJV1 to preview some of the tracks.
The album will be available at http://pixeljam.bandcamp.com this friday.
In other news, Glorkian Warrior and Dino Run iPhone continue to get worked on. These are huge projects with no release date in site. We'll keep everyone up to date with major milestones. Thanks for reading!
Dino Run SE is now available!
Strap on those raptor feet, grab your hat and get ready to out run doom all over again in the new version of our classic prehistoric racing game, Dino Run SE! Available for download on Mac, PC, and Linux, Dino Run SE includes all the raptor running fun you had in the original along with plenty of exclusive new features and improvements.
A mere $3 bucks (or clams, or bones) will get you Dino Run SE delivered straight to your desktop and out of the browser which will give you a smoother and faster gameplay experience, a fancy fullscreen mode, and multiplayer servers exclusive to SE players only. Dino Run SE is also jam packed with all sorts of new goodies, including:
• New Speedruns
• New Multiplayer Maps
• New game mode "Planet D": a collection of weird and challenging levels
• LOTS of new HATS and COLORS to personalize your dino
Every purchase also comes with the full Dino Run soundtrack by chiptune musician Mark DeNardo, and will directly support Pixeljam Games in completing our upcoming games in progress which include Dino Run iPhone, Gamma Bros 2 and Glorkian Warrior!
So ride that doom wave on over to the Pixeljam site and pick up Dino Run SE today!
Side Note: A huge thanks to all of our beta testers who helped test Dino Run SE, and to all our fans on Facebook for their suggestions and enthusiasm! For those of you interested in helping us test our games in the future, sign up here. And for those of you who want to like us on Facebook, head here!
Unlock and wear the Glorkian Warrior hat and play everything upside down!
(Hint: Find our little green Buddy in a lava cave..)
Dino Run
Hello all! A big Dino Run related post here...
Dino Run SE
This is an expansion / improvement of the web version. You dont need a browser to play it, it runs full-screen very smooth (we redid the rendering code), and we've added new speedruns, multiplayer maps, a new game mode (Planet D), new music, plus lots of new hats and colors.
The official launch is in a week or two. The actual game is done, but we are spending some time setting up other things related to the game (like the info pages and shop, etc).
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iPhone version: this is still coming along, and as everyone can tell, it's taking a long time. There's no release date, as we need to make sure it's as good as it can be, so we won't rush it. It's a completely new game, with new physics, new terrain, almost new everything!
That's it for now... thanks for reading!
The Official Pixeljam Facebook page is live! Go on and “like” us!
Visit the Official Pixeljam Facebook Page!
It's been a long time coming, but today we finally have an Official Pixeljam Facebook page live in the Facebook wild! It's just getting started, but if you take a quick look around you'll find a bunch of photo albums featuring art from our games along with a few other goodies. And with more to come! We'll keep it updated with news and sneak peeks at upcoming games and hopefully make it a place where our fans on Facebook can interact with each other.
So if you're a fan, head on over to the Pixeljam Facebook page and hit the "Like" button at the top of the page to keep updated!
Mountain Maniac Xmas
Mountain Maniac has blown a fuse again! This time while enduring his sentence of community service as a mall Santa (paying his dues for crimes committed against all humanity and mountainsides in his previous game), Mountain Maniac realized he's been saving up his rage all year for just one thing: Santa Claus.
After quickly making his way to the North Pole, Mountain Maniac now wrecks havoc atop an advent calendar of mountain bound Christmas treasures in Mountain Maniac Xmas. Guide him as he pounds boulders down the mountainside to destroy all things precious to good ol' Saint Nick. In four more levels than the first Mountain Maniac game, demolish candied gingerbread houses, gift boxes full of children's toys, elves in toboggans and unsuspecting polar bear cubs. Launch destruction with the help of jack-in-the-boxes, warp tunnels, and larger TNT explosions! Enjoy exciting bonus round action and avoid the bigger and badder North Pole Yeti!
Head over to Adult Swim Games now to play Mountain Maniac Xmas and bring forth a new kind of Christmas miracle this year by forcing Santa to rue the day he ever found his toy making sweatshop and guaranteeing a hefty amount of coal in Mountain Maniac's stocking. Merry raging!
Fall Update
My word, how time flies... what has been going on around here? Lotsa stuff:
-We are about to release a new game on adultswim.com... it will go live on friday [ 10 / 22 ].
-Pixeljam Music provied tunes for the new iPhone app "Trainer Drop", which you can read about here and download here
- We're still chipping away at Glorkian Warrior. Not surprisingly, the game is bigger than we originally imagined, and hopefully we'll have a beta for it in early 2011.
- Dino run iPhone is still coming together, we'll probably have a beta for that ready in early 2011 as well.
That's it for now... have a good one!
May 2010
Hello!
Happy Spring everyone! It's time for a huge Pixeljam blog update.
Let's see..
First, here's a recent in-depth interview with Dejobaan Games on ModDB.com:
Adult Swim has released the last of our 8-Bit Rejects games: aTurbo Granny". This one is pretty goofy, & truly deserves the "8-Bit Reject" title, but hopefully it's entertaining enough for a few minutes anyway...
Glorkian Warrior! We reached our kickstarter funding goal for Glorkian Warrior thanks to all our wonderful backers. Thanks so much to everyone that pledged. We'll be sending out our backer rewards some time in mid-late may. The kickstarter project may be over, but if anyone still wants to get in on supporting the game and receiving the incentives, just contact us and let us know. We'll happily honor those pledge levels and incentives, including unique little paintings from James Kochalka, your name in the credits of the game, etc.
The game itself is turning out great, and of course it's much more work than we thought it would be. But we are making progress every day!
And then there's the other stuff we're working on:
Dino Run iPhone: this is slowly but surely making progress. We think it might be finished sometime in the late summer or early fall.
That Snowball game that appeared on our site for a while, but then went away: We've put it on hold until next winter. It didn't seem to make any sense to release a snowy game in march or april.
We have an other project going on in the background, that will probably see the light of day at the end of 2010... it's a program that lets you make little adventure games. More on that later...
Gamma Bros 2: We sure do talk about this one alot, and never show any real progress with it. We've made a commitment to ourselves to get a 1 level demo of this game done by the end of the year. We HAVE to make this game! And we will, eventually
That's it for now. Take care!
Glorkian Warrior!
We've just started a new project with comic book artist James Kochalka, called Glorkian Warrior. We're unusually excited about this, since we've been fans of James' work for a long time. You can get gobs of info on the game here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixeljam/james-kochalka-pixeljam-glorkian-warrior
As you can tell we are raising funds to help the development of the game. We've saved up some money from all the adult swim projects, but it's not enough to fund the entire game. Anyone who helps back the project will get a free copy of the game when it is released. Woo hoooo!!!!
And yes, it's Jame's hand drawn art in the game, but there will be also be pixelly parts to the game starring the Glorkian's pocket pixel robot.
