Welcome Back Players
Firstly massive thank you to all the players that have supported the game since launch. Your feedback has been heard and have isolated and made improvements on them. Thank you. I cannot wait for you all to experience what is to come throughout 2025.
Pixel Arcade is now fully supported with the Unity 6 Game Engine. This means improved performance across all levels, more fluid physics movement and enhanced visual effects.
On January 31st, more players enter the Pixel Arcade arena with a standalone build for Meta Quest devices. On Friday the 31st Jan 2024, Steam players will also be getting a new update. Lets go through whats coming!
Whats New in 2.0
- Hit Feedback sound effect on all grabs
- Haptic feedback for climbing, UI, boost pads, deaths and fragments collection
- Improved 3D UI interaction accuracy
- Welcome Audio and more - "checkpoint" and "fragment collected" sound effects
- New menu ambience music track
- Level enhancements to improve flow and pace with more predictable boost pad landings
- Game optimization for GPU/CPU bound tasks - get higher frames
- Physics movement improvements - you will no longer collide with objects unexpectedly
- Increased Air control, when in the air use your joystick to help you stick the landing!
- From Steam, get into a level in less than 20 seconds
- Mute button for in game, jam out to your own playlist while still hearing critical game feedback
- Cheats! Enhance your gameplay for fun, keep an eye out in game and on DIscord for exclusive cheats!
In Game Recording
You will notice a new panel in the menu hub, grab this and place it over your shoulder as you master levels and record highlights in first and third person. Highlight your clutch moments and share with the steam community or on socials with #PixelArcade to be featured in future trailers!
Mixed Reality Recording
Integrating with LIV now means you can bring your audience into the game with you. Grab the free LIV app on Steam and share your play through Mixed Reality and showcase your playstyle.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/755540/LIV/
Meta Quest Release
Take Pixel Arcade on the go with the Meta Quest edition of the game launching January 31st 2025. Grab your copy here 👉 Pixel Arcade on Meta Quest
Level 10 Preview
Check out an 'in-development' preview of the final level of the game. Note that is is subject to change and in the 2.0 update will look slightly different but will give you a sense of the scale of the final level with 37 checkpoints 😮
Coming soon..
Workshop support 🎉 Download the official map designer and start creating your own levels to share on the steam workshop. Once curated levels are approved, challenge your friends on the leader board.
Co-op, join your Steam friends in a co-op experience. Voice chat integration so dont fall behind your friend and complete the game together 🤝 Don't worry about falling behind, taking risks has its rewards so work as a team to traverse Level 10 and use your partners skillset to your advantage!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2603560/Pixel_Arcade/
Bonus Breakdown
Pixel Arcade contains a lot of new technology for VR. An exclusive 3D Modular interface, keeping you in the game and not having to worry about learning where interface components are. Never laser pointers 🙏 The UI is context aware.
The portal is a challenge for users with low end hardware. VR Rendering requires 2 cameras for stereoscopic rendering - one for each eye. This is essential to VR and allows you to see depth. However, for real portals to work we must instead render 2x as much, as we also have 2 cameras on the "other side" of the portal. This impacts performance significantly up to 2x as much, depending on how complex the level behind is. So a level that is 144 fps without the portal will likely drop to 72 fps.. not something im willing to accept. Currently a 3070 allows for 144fps consistent.