There are various ways to announce games, but we want to doff our festive hats to Lightwood Games for its latest approach. It's announced Pic-a-Pix Color for the Wii U and 3DS eShop, out in 2017 with more details to come in January, and has given us all a chance to try it out.
The concept is rather simple, with the same grid and clues that will be familiar to Picross fans. The difference is that you're filling in multiple colours and spaces are no longer mandatory; after a brief mental adjustment it makes plenty of sense.
Thankfully you can try it out and get a look at some festive pixel-art while you're at it - just head to the Lightwood Games 'interactive Holiday card' website to try a puzzle.
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Fair play to them. Just tried it out and I think it works on the Wii U gamepad. Have always been curious about Picross but never got to play it as a Wii U only owner. Now just to figure out how it's played.
Edit: Spoiler alert. The solution is in the image below for anyone who's stuck.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0Mzi3lXcAA9oNi.jpg:small
@4chrisnewman Merry Christmas!
Can this can be played in the New 3DS browser?
@Moon To be honest I just used my PC browser, worth an experiment on 3DS though!
@Moon It does run on the New 3DS browser, in a fashion. Please don't think this is representative of the 3DS game though, which is going to be super-lovely, if I say so myself. The Wii U version uses Nintendo Web Framework, hence the ability to extract a puzzle for this browser-based preview.
Just gave the Demo a go and looks fairly simple but fun, on windows explorer
that was a cute demo! really liked it!
I think I'm sold.
First time I've seen colour used in picross like this, but it seems to work well... I'd be interested to see how well it holds up in larger, more complex puzzles though.
A nice twist on Picross: I might pick this up if the price is right.
Looking good! I'll probably get this if I think of it when it comes out.
Very effective announcement.
I'm sold.
Is this same as Color.Cross which came out on DS and Color Cross Animals on DSI? Both good games.
@Eisenbolan Actually no. Color Cross has separate clues for each colour, kind of like layers which then merge to form the image. This is one set of clues for the whole picture. The gaps between blocks of colour end up as the white colour. The puzzles are by Conceptis - their site explains the rules in much more detail than I can here!
Looks like a 2D version of Picross 3D round 2, with those colors. Hopefully it has some music, this was very quite.
Also, I wanted to download that Picross clone that is available on Wii u, but it doesn't seem available in Europe.
@Henmii
And yes, there will be music!
Nice to hear.
Oh, nice, I like this style. I have one on my phone that's like this. Def adding this to my picross pile.
Hopefully it was just the example but I felt the colours actually made the puzzle much easier. Will keep an eye on it though, I do love me some Picross.
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